Luminous, we shine
Rika Akira, one of my many characters, has a rather interesting way of speaking. English isn't her first language, and in her simple form of logic, she feels like somehow it's wrong for her to speak a language she isn't fluent in. So she compromises by speaking it as little as possible, and has developed her own special form of broken English, which I will attempt to teach you how to speak. You know, in case you... ever wanted to do that. "Rika talk" as she calls it, uses as few words and syllables as possible, so meaning is often ambiguous and needs to be derived from context. First of all, Rika always refers to herself in third person - she never uses first-person pronouns, whether singular or plural. Instead, she substitutes her name - for instance, "I like ramen" becomes "Rika like ramen". (Which she does.) Verbs are always conjugated in first person present singular - "Rika like" rather than "Rika likes". Pronouns are ...