he did a pretty good job cleaning up methinks
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A very baby Piri + with one of his relatives Butuan and Sugbo (Cebu)
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They are trying to guess each other’s local not-so-tongue-twister but more like wordplay thing
*Additional note (thank you Netsu from twitter!) : Piri actually could recognize ‘Teh’ from Indo as ‘sis’ too, so both Mal and Piri half-guessed Indo’s wordplay right!
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some rough alfred language headcanon thoughts:
the first languages he knows how to speak are carolina algonquian and english. carolina algonquian because i see alfred having a link to the so-called "lost colony" of roanoke, which had interacted with the croatan people (and carolina algonquian is their language).
he learns french growing up under arthur's authority, as arthur thought it practical given its pre-eminence as a diplomatic lingua franca, but spanish is another one he picks up because of his neighbours—mexico and cuba. today, he is perhaps most fluent in mexican spanish.
during the old china trade period with Yao, right after the american revolutionary war, he picks up some casual cantonese from the southern chinese port of guangzhou, where western ships were confined to.
he and Kiku converse in dutch when they first meet, before the latter becomes fluent in english. alfred imo started learning dutch due to buying arms from jan (ned) during the revolution, and more or less posed as a young naval officer serving as a dutch-english linguist throughout the whole perry expedition.
i think alfred does eventually learn japanese, but compared to jan (netherlands) who imo, is strong at both written and spoken japanese (and can even read the original form of old japanese classics like the tale of genji)—alfred's better at speech but weaker at reading kanji or kana.
after his victory in the spanish-american war which also leads to the philippines coming under american rule, alfred picks up at least some tagalog (if not more). alfred is someone i think, who can both be genuinely gregarious and charming—but also see learning other languages also as a strategic advantage to intelligence gathering and magnifying his own cultural power.
overall, imo alfred's a polyglot because most nations are, plus when he was born, english doesn't quite have the cultural dominance it does today. it was quite essential to know multiple languages as a nation—and for all the stereotypes, a huge proportion of his people today are also multilingual.
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Can I ask if there's hws Philippines in this au?
Three of a kind
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This was my piece for the @hws-anthology zine!
Please check it out/download it here, everyone has done an awesome job in it and I’m really glad to have been part of the zine \[^0^]/
Without the text/the inspiration for this under the cut:
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