It Is Fantastic I Will Be Thinking About This For The Rest Of The Night And Quite Possibly The Rest Of The Week Too - Tumblr Posts
OH MY GOD YES. Literally no cure or way to counteract it, they are just stuck with this as long as the crossover is happening.
If we want to go along the serious curse route, then we could pull a “Howl’s Moving Castle” so that if either of them try to say something in English it forcefully closes and locks their jaw shut until they stop trying, literally taking the ability to speak away from them as it does so. OR, considering that Rise is usually more humorous, we could do the randomized language, so it’s just one of many, many languages. No clue what would determine it but it definitely wouldn’t matter how many people speak the language in modern days.
As for Pig Latin, I looked it up and it says it was formed from English by just swapping letters and adding “ay” to the end, so it would probably still count as English.
But what about fantasy languages? Could they learn and speak Elvish without a problem? What about the Na’vi language, since the dude who made it literally had a PHD in linguistics (I think, its been a minute)? Like, that has to count as it’s own language that they could use, right?
Okay I think I’ve seen a post like this before but I love the thought that the 2012 TMNT boys speak perfect, beautiful, flowing, textbook Japanese and just break into it when they get really upset, so sometimes you just hear Raph arguing that “pineapple does NOT go on pizza what are you doing Mikey-” in Japanese, using one of the best accents you’ve heard (you’d think he’s a native speaker)
And then there’s just. RoTTMNT. They speak English. They picked up a few languages here and there and then dropped them, besides Leo who decided he was also going to speak Spanish.
In a crossover, 2012 Leo yells something at Rise Leo in Japanese, expecting that their Splinter taught them it as well. Rise Leo just shrieks something back in poorly pronounced Spanish and now both of them are confused