"I hadn't noticed either- I thought everyone was simply fluent in French- this being Canada and all- for a while," Loki replied with a one shoulder shrug, watching Youko as she moved about the kitchen.

"I realized it only after conversing with a few people in languages that were foreign to them and their homelands. Odd, isn't it?" But not entirely unexplainable. The All Tongue had the same sorts of properties. In a way. If you squinted.