video;

[synanthrope]

[The camera shows a little girl with black hair and brown eyes - she looks eight or nine.]

Nanny....nanny! Onda fya ondjala!

[There's a pause here]

Tate?

[Another pause, as she considers. She looks like she's thought of something, though!]

Haai? Ek is verlore...ek het honger, ek soek na nanny...

[She pauses again, and speaks once more. Her accent is clipped and clearly a mix of South African and Namibian, pointed and almost Dutch and English mixed with a little bit of German thrown in: much stronger than Saya's adult accent]

Hello? I'm looking for my vade-my father, and I'm very hungry. I think my nanny lost me. Please, someone, understand English, my German is not very good. My name is Satya Daphne. My father works at the American Embassy. I'm not sure how I got here.

[And yet another pause, but she has to do this, she's looking slightly more unsure now]

Entschuldigung, Ich heisse Satya Daphne....

[But before she can finish, the video stops]

[ooc: She's speaking Oshiwambo, Afrikaans, and German, in that order. I don't speak any of these languages, so I apologize for any butchery! replies from prewoven]

Comments

[cold_dry_pieces]

In some ways, it's like French. I'm from Miami, Florida.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

Is that near Orlando? I've been to Orlando.

[cold_dry_pieces]

It'd take a few hours to make the drive. Miami's further south, towards the tip of the state.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Is it pretty? Miami, I mean? I'd like to visit, if it's pretty.

[cold_dry_pieces]

I like it. It's a big city, and busy, but it's warm and of course there are beaches.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

I like beaches, if there are ice lollies and ball games!

[cold_dry_pieces]

I'm sure you could scare one up.

There's a beach here, but it isn't warm yet.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm very scary.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Half the battle is attitude.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

Do you think I have a lot of attitude?

[cold_dry_pieces]

Just enough. But what I mean is, coming across as scary-- or anything else-- is just a matter of having the right attitude.

Though I doubt you really need to scare anyone.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

I'd like to scare Neil Connor.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Who's that?

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

He's a boy in my class. He pulls my ribbons and teases me about how my mum left.

[cold_dry_pieces]

People like that often get what's coming to them.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

What's coming to him?

[cold_dry_pieces]

Nothing nice, I expect.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

I just want to scare him.

[cold_dry_pieces]

I'm sure you can figure something out.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'll put a spider in his shirt.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Bugs are usually a good bet.