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Mongolia: «So, today we'll be talking about punctuation.»
Taiwan「Wow，your punctuation is kinda giving French」
Japan「H、how are you guys able to hear that⋯⋯」
South Korea: “It just comes with age, I suppose.”
Japan「I'm older than you (泣)」
‘That's great.’ [cries in gained independence from UK in '84] :Brunei
North Korea《Aren't you Southeast Asian? Why are you here? And why are you backwards? Doesn't Malay use Latin script?》
Tibet《Whoa། we་use་the་dou་ble་an་gle་brack་ets་too》
China: “And why are you here？You're not a country。”
Taiwan 「I could say the same thing⋯⋯」
Mongolia: «More importantly, why does Tibet have dots between every word?»
China: “Yeah，just use no spaces at all。Like a real man。” ［he says while using spaces in English for fanfic legibility］
Japan、whispering「We don't have genders⋯⋯」
Tibet《It's་not་be་tween་ev་ery་word། it's་ev་ery་syl་la་ble》
Mongolia: «???»
Brunei: ‘Anyway, to answer North Korea's question: we use the Arabic script (or “Jawi script” in Brunei) officially as well.’
All: «《「 “Ahhh⋯⋯” 」》»
North Korea《Still wondering why you're here; you're not East Asian.》
Mongolia ⟪Woah᠂ Brunei᠂ we're basically twins᠃
I can write differently too᠃ #монголбичиг⟫
Japan「There's no need to flex」
I remembered I could do vertical writing too』
South Korea『I was having severe FOMO then
Mongolia ⟪Okay᠂ sure᠂ but you're writing the
wrong way᠃ Right-to-left is just plain disgus-
ting᠁⟫
Japan 「Are you sure about that」
Taiwan 「Are you sure about that」
China『Are you sure about that』
Mongolia ⟪Rats᠁ Outnumbered᠃⟫
Brunei: ‘I... I think I'm having a headache...’