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I just love the idea of the correspondence
CorporalHam
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12/22/2017
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I started playing Fallen London a few years back, and while I'm not so active on it anymore, I still think of the Correspondence, a language that hurts to learn. In the game, to increase your knowledge of the Correspondence, you hurt yourself and drive yourself to madness. You cannot avoid this suffering, you can only accept it. There is something about the story and writing of Fallen London that has stayed with me through the years, and the mechanics of learning the Correspondence more so than anything else. Whenever I am studying at college, or practicing something I want to get better at and run into difficulty, I always think of the Correspondence, and accept that the suffering and difficulty is a part of the process. So I guess I want to say thank you to the writers of Fallen London, for that little bit of motivation this game has given me.
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gronostaj
Posts: 403
12/22/2017
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CorporalHam wrote:
a language that hurts to learn
you say it like there are languages that don't hurt to learn (;
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Gronostaj (pl. Ermine), a decadent duellist of mysterious and indistinct gender. Seeker. Willing to die- but not of boredom. Open to all social actions, including the harmful ones.
Soft-Spoken Surgeon, a doctor who owes an onerous debt. Professor of medicine at the University by day, at criminal employ by night. Open to all non-harmful social actions.
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Catherine Raymond
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12/22/2017
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gronostaj wrote:
CorporalHam wrote:
a language that hurts to learn
you say it like there are languages that don't hurt to learn (;
I've been trying to learn German via Duolingo. It hasn't set my hair on fire yet (though sometimes it feels as though it might). :-)
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Cathy Raymond
http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Reused NPC
Posts: 259
12/23/2017
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
I've been trying to learn German via Duolingo. It hasn't set my hair on fire yet (though sometimes it feels as though it might). :-)
Ach, Deutsch kann nicht deinen Haaren entzuenden.
--That said, there's even more to the Correspondence than just hurting to learn and funky definitions. (The definitions can be works of art, for the record.) The lore around the Correspondence is among the more central of Neathy mysteries.
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ReusedNPC, a d__ned lunatic.
Edmund Viric, a rather dreamy sort.
"I won't stay long, I shan't stay long! Tell me a secret."
--the Baldomerian
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