>>26791646darn, another reminder I really need to go read the /rose/ lore
sapling language wouldnt be impossible to translate; much of our culture relies on being able to speak to and guide either younger saplings that havent fully developed their Forest Sense or new saplings from other places that dont have Forest Sense at all, so we have general base communications with purely vocal words and sentences, with hooman language sprinkled in because of our "shared" past