#bronius

Whilst it’s generally accepted that individual pokémon species and families have enough intraspecial communicative ability to have developed observable cultures, few species actually have grammatically and syntactically founded languages. (That said, some researchers have dedicated their careers to investigating some species, such as Jynx and Deoxys, that do appear to have semi-linguistic speech/code.) Most pokémon can pick up on some degree of human language—that is, enough to understand both basic commands and simple statements—but the limit to their understanding varies from species to species. Trainers typically cite normal, dark, fighting, and psychic-type pokémon as being able to comprehend complex concepts well compared to other types; however, little empirical evidence supports this. (Many researchers would agree from their own observation, but designing experiments to test a zigzagoon’s response to ‘entitlement’ is often challenging.) Little is known about pokémon’s non-linguistic communication systems, but over the past six or so years, paper upon paper has emerged in Pocket Monsters (think The Lancet for pokémon instead of medicine) dictating that aura plays a crucial part. Rowan, Burnet, Kukui, and Oak are all sceptical, but Elm, Sycamore, and both Junipers will gladly vouch for this theory.

Prior to being taken in by Ghetsis, N lived amongst wild pokémon—hence, their aura-based communication became his first language. (Had N lived out his infancy amongst men, he may have been revered as a great psychic rather than a cultist king.) However fluent he is in English, he’ll never accept it as his mother tongue. Rather, he’s aware that Ghetsis hammered it into him so that by the time he was (presumably) ten, he could speak better than any peers his age. (For that matter, whilst the little king was to be kept from the world, Rood, Bronius, Gorm, and Ryoku all made an effort to teach him all they could of philosophy and literature. Now, N can strike up a conversation in Chinese or Hindi just as eloquently as he can in English, but those who’ve spoken to him in either agree his speech is unnervingly archaic. After all, his only linguistic partners in non-English for years were sages—old, wise men.) Yet N still thinks in the non-speech of a pokémon—his thoughts are not word-based. That’s why he takes to mathematics so swimmingly: Equations better resemble the workings of his mind than sentences. When N hears a pokémon's voice, he doesn’t hear it so much as sense it. The process better resembles telepathy—heavily physical telepathy—than speech, but N could hardly describe it in words. After all, human language is limited by its inherent humanity.

Bronius : This is NOT a slumber party!

Gorm: Sure feels like one.

Bronius: Gorm, we are IN A PRISON CELL!

Povilo ir Broniaus elektrifikuoti vario medžiai pagaliau išskleidė savo lajas, sužibo jaukiom spingsulėm ir linksmina žmones. Vienas nutūpė Rietave, grafų Oginskių rūmuose, kitas - Vilniuje, Technikos muziejuje.

Povilas aukojo dienas ir naktis ant ištvermės aukuro ir pasiekė kelis asmeninius rekordus, o Bronius daug mokėsi iš korifėjaus :)