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Yuuta is Aer Lingus. *dies* <3 <3

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i can't figure out who the pan am one is. not ohtori... is it jiroh? o.0

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...although I think Atobe in a fur coat makes a lot more sense than Kaidoh, to be honest. O_o

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yeah, and if a fur coat, maybe not such a blue and girly one with pink puffy fur. unless someone made him wear it. or unless he was smuggling kittens through customs... which isn't that hard in finland, i guess, assuming the kittens will be quiet.

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oh, white fur, but still.

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maybe he was smuggling karupin with him. =D

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kidnapping him :(?

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if the need was great, I imagine so. *solemn*

hahaha. :D

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now i'm imagining fic where kaidoh has to be disguised as atobe and smuggle karupin through international customs. maybe if the goodwill team had to fly to europe! and atobe was late so they dressed kaidoh up as him! and um. ryoma. had. an urgent need for karupin. no, maybe karupin was a stowaway.

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kshdskjdhjdh I love how you just come up with these fic ideas out of nowhere. God. ♥ ♥ ♥

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hahahhaha. öajdsöflj. the idea is the easy part.

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...very true.

*kicks Word* Someone in Microsoft needs to invent a program that writes itself. Dictating straight to Word would be so much easier, not to mention faster. *grumps*

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well, there are voice dictation programs. after you take quite a while to train them to recognise your voice and all, they actually get pretty accurate - although i don't know how optimised they are for irish accents... ;)

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jshdjsadh I can imagine. I do have an accent, I've discovered after meeting a few of my flist, and I can recognise the lilt/brogue in certain words, but it's not very strong. I don't have a Cork - county or city - accent at all, much to many people's surpise, since I've lived in Cork my entire life, but I use a lot of Cork phrases (putting "like" at the end of a sentence for no reason at all, for example). It took me years to forcibly pronounce the gs at the end of words, too. I pick up accents very easily, though - I prounounce an awful lot of things with a Japanese accent from watching too much anime too. Case in point: I pronouce Abel with a Japanese accent from watching Trinity Blood too many times, and when I was talking about it with a few people from college, they were all, "... Who?" That was sort of embarrassing. -_-;

It could be worse: I could have a Dublin or Northern Ireland accent, two accents I loathe and which make me twitch. And, yes, going to Dublin when the voices of a good chunk of the population will drive me batshit insane is fine logic, I know.

Um. Sorry for the rambling. I think I talk too fast for voice dictation anyway. :D

And. Hmmm. I'm working on your fic right now, and I'm all gleeful and excited. ♥

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heeeeeee. my dad writes a lot so, now that he can't type, he has to use a voice dictation program to operate windows. he has a pretty standard, tv-like american accent, no strong regionalisms, and he speaks clearly for most things, which is optimal for dragon naturally speaking (the leading program in the field of voice recognition). but we had a family friend from minnesota, and i imagine you know what they sound like - he tried to use the same program and it couldn't decipher his accent, so he ended up with an 80% error rate. as you can imagine, next to useless.

and please ramble as much as you want about accents! there's a little kernel of frustrated linguist in me that never got to study much linguistics and i find it fascinating. i don't know much about the irish accent though. i keep getting it confused with scottish and welsh which makes wax, who spent six months in ireland when she was a teenager, very impatient. :) you'll probably get used to the dublin accent though. i spent six months in texas, and i used to think i hated the accent, but i did mostly get used to it. and i even learned to appreciate the deep south accent from alabama where i grew up (which as a child i also loathed).

i was trying to work on my band of princes fic but then i was um. writing crack telepathic tezuryo drabbles for aja instead. :? i am so excited about this mystery fic you're writing for me! even though i kind of feel that i am undeserving. i mean. ♥! ♥♥♥♥

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kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com

Actually Finnair is Kaido. Atobe is PanAm down at the bottom.

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oh! that explains it. the hair fooled me.

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penm.livejournal.com

Yay Oshitari. And Kirihara as Virgin Atlantic! ♥.

And gnaaaaaaaaaaah Mizuki as Air Frane. Of course.

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:X

i love the kirihara one.

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Lufthansa? *dead* And uh... You don't know me, but I'm Sailor Gotland (Gottis for short) and I followed your Aozu AU fic here for more PoT goodness. Yay, a fellow Nordic person! ♥ *waves*

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hi! i'm not really nordic, i just live in finland. i'm american.

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Heh, that's okay. ^__^ How long have you lived there? <-- Is from Sweden and a rabit PoT fan. ^^

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i moved up here in ... ... ... august 2004 to live with

wax_jism. we keep meaning to hop the ferry to stockholm, but have never quite got around to it yet. well, it is slightly expensive, but i've never seen sweden outside of arlanda. and i love the riksvensk accent. it's so cute. :x

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Well, Arlanda is good enough. Uhm, almost anyway? 8D It's cool that you think the rikssvenska sounds cute. Coming from a Gotland person, it only sounds stuck up. XDDD

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no, i mean outside of the airport. i haven't actually been in sweden. - but when i say riksvensk i meant all of the swedish from sweden. most of it is a lot more tonal than the swedish spoken by the people around me.

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I see... Where you live, do they talk mostly Swedish or Finnish? *lost* 8D

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well, almost everybody in finland speaks finnish... but the swedish-speaking minority speak sweidsh, with each other.

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Okies... ^-^ O_o I hope you don't think I'm too nosy or anything by randomly spamming your LJ like this, btw?

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haha XD no, no problem.

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^__^

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i live in turku-Ã¥bo which is one of the bigger cities, and is the only one of them near the swedish speakers. most of the swedish speakers in finland are concentrated on the south and west coast, where there are some entirely-swedish and mostly-swedish towns. in central finland and northern finland there isn't even swedish on the street signs anymore. but since Ã¥bo is a big city, it's mostly finnish even though many of the towns nearby aren't. my better half's mother lives in a place where the majority are swedish speakers, though.

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uh. åbo... gmail doesn't seem to like the letter Å.

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I think we drove past Abo once, when we were in Tjarlax (is avoiding that letter too. >_>;;), visiting my uncle's childhood home. We drove up to Tornea, over to Happaranda, then all the way to Norway and back through Sweden. It was great! ^.^

So, uhm... Wanna be friends? 8D

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i haven't been here long enough to know where those places are. and uh. i don't seem to have a map handy, unfortunately... but i get the idea. :)

and, sure!

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