personal log stardate -310121.4532420056

[universaltranslator]

[Starting a barroom brawl and spending a night in jail is not really helpful when you're hunting for a job. Uhura's been trying to hunt down a job her way, but no hits. It seems she made the mistake of causing trouble in a bar owned by someone popular.

So now she's trying it Chekov's way.]



[voice]
So it turns out there's not much market here for linguists, and a friend told me I should try my luck posting on the network.

I'm fluent in half a dozen languages, specialize in computer programming, and if all else fails [with a bit of a laugh] I make a mean Cardassian Sunrise.


[ooc: Feel free to recognize Uhura from the bar fight (and it's not too late to jump in)! The poking of fun is highly encouraged.]

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[universaltranslator]

If you know one Indo-European language, you know them all, really. But I wouldn't say I'm fluent in more than six.

[candothat]

That is like saying that once you know Russian, you know Polish. Or German, even.

[universaltranslator]

They're not all that different. They all evolved from only a few root languages. If you know the roots, it's easy to figure out the rest.

[candothat]

That must be why you are a linguist and I am not. Learning German was terrible.

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[universaltranslator]

Es ist okay. Sie sind auf andere Weise begabt.

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[candothat]

Danken sie Gott für kleine bevorzugungen.

[universaltranslator]

[Uhura chokes on a laugh. His Russian accent is even thicker in German than in English.]

Your accent could use some work.

[candothat]

[Overly dramatic sigh. Yes, he is bad with accents.]

So I have been told. Even my mother is appalled by my English.

[universaltranslator]

I think it's cute.

[candothat]

[He's flattered, but it is his duty to be exasperated whenever he is accused of being cute in any way.]

I hope that it will be less cute when I am a captain.

[universaltranslator]

I wouldn't hold my breath.

[candothat]

Please, Uhura, don't destroy my dreams.

[universaltranslator]

I'm sorry, Chekov. You will become the most intimidating captain Starfleet has ever seen.