Communication for Abians is actually almost hand-in-hand with how Intention works. Basically, whatever point they wish to communicate across will come across. Quite literally. This is how it works:

First the Abian decides that there is something within their mind that they wish to somehow communicate to others. Then they chose how they wish to go about communicating this; do they want to use hand gestures? Body language? Or do they want to use sound and "speak" it? Once the Abian has decided that it wants to "speak" this information it simply opens its mouth and what comes out is them speaking whatever it is that they're trying to communicate.

I'm sure that sounds both simple and yet confusing.

Basically, Abians do not conciously know how to speak any language, but they can speak all of them. They are not taught how to sound out vowels, they do not learn what words mean or how sentences are structured. They simply know how to communicate their ideas, and some are better at it than others.

Say an Abian is standing in a room full of individuals, and that each individual speaks a different language. Say the Abian is *for one reason or another* feeling cold, and wishes to tell everyone that she *yeah, gonna make it a chick* is cold. So when she says "I'm cold" everybody in that room will each hear what she is saying in their own native language, because she wants to communicate the idea to everyone there.

If she only felt like speaking to half of the people in the room, then one half would hear her clearly stating "I'm cold" in their respective langauges, while the other half would likely hear something that just sounds like it's in another language because they're not the audience she is trying to direct her comments to.

For people who are multi-lingual, an Abian might sound like it is speaking in a mixture of languages, pulling words out of the different languages depending on which language has the most appropriate word to describe what her idea is that she is trying to communicate.

While the concept of simply communicating is an easy thing for Abians, and they generally pick it up naturally on their own, actually mastering it is something completely different. There are some examples within the Abian series of characters who have different levels of experience with communicating.

Vanessa is at the lowest level. She uses simple words and blunt phrases. It's just enough to get her point across. If she had more experience talking with people, she might be able to "expand her vocabulary" as she gains experience with trying to communicate more complicated thought processes and ideas, but for now she remains simple because it's all she needs to get by.

Roxanne, Lillium, Marctavious, and pretty much all of those others are all on what we would call "average" level. They generally know how to communicate complex ideas, so when they speak they sound like the average individual. They use complete sentences and have a large range of words to chose from.

Laventous has pretty much mastered the art of "speaking". You can tell this just from looking at the vocabulary he uses.

Consider this as an example, say that Vanessa, Lillium, and Lava were trying to describe a really big rock. Vanessa would not really be able to call it anything other than "big." She'd pretty much just say "that rock is big" because it's the only way she really knows how to communicate. She's not thinking about size comparison to other things, she's not trying to consider ways to really communicate how big it is, it's just simply 'big.' Lillium, on the other hand, might be able to use words like "large" or "giant" when trying to describe the big rock, because she's trying to express size comparison or give a better idea of "it's more than just big. It's HUGE!" Lava has had so much experience with speaking to people and communicating ideas across that he would be able to come up with more flourished words like "gargantuous", "capacious", "colossal", "vast", "voluminous" etc because he's gotten used to the fact that even the slightest change in trying to communicate an idea will adjust the way that people hear him "speak" and will thus change the "words" he is using. He's almost poetic in that way because he's capable of working with words so well.

There has been, at least twice in the Abian series, instances where an Abian has actually "mis-communicated" something because they were so distracted by something else that they weren't paying as much attention to what it is they were trying to say at the time. Most of the time, for Abians with more advanced experience when it comes to communicating, the Abian actually needs to focus a bit on what they're saying as they say it, so a simple distraction can often cause them to say things that may appear "out of place" or "out of character" because they weren't putting as much focus on what it is they were trying to communicate as they normally do.

For an Abian, it is nearly impossible to lie. Falsehoods are not something that their brain even easily comprehends, and since they communicate through intention, an Abian that does not have enough experience with communicating, if they were trying to lie, might even flub up and say something as obvious as "Well I want you to believe that I...." which generally isn't very convincing. In short, almost no Abian actually lies, or even lies all that well. Misleading the truth is something that's slightly more conceivable, or leaving out certain details is do-able, but there's actually only one Abian character in the current series who is capable of citing an actual falsehood.

When an Abian is speaking to a person and hearing that person talk, this whole thing generally works in reverse. Since an Abian can read/hear/see the Intentions of humans, when they're talking to a person, they don't so much hear that person's words as much as they hear all of that person's Intention, and can understand what that person is trying to communicate because of it. They're wonderful at "reading between the lines" because they do it so naturally, they can't really help but pick up on the Intention of an individual. Because of this it's almost impossible to lie to an Abian. It might be do-able, but it would not be easy. Also because of this an Abian can understand any spoken language, so they could talk to a French person just as effortlessly as they could speak to a Chinese person.

The written word, however, is where things become tricky. The idea of Intention still partially plays through on written language. Obviously something was written down because a person was trying to communicate something, and at least that much Intention will exist in written information allowing an Abian to read any written language as long as it is meant to say something. Random gibberish, tags, and even some shorthand are completely lost to Abians as those things don't always carry the same Intention that other written out things might have. Also, an Abian cannot read the general Intention of the person who wrote those words down, so they have to take the words for literal face-value and would not be able to pick up on ideas like puns, sarcasm, metaphors, or any of that other stuff that humans have become so used to picking up in writing. Practice makes better, at least, and it is possible for them to learn to recognize some of these things when they see them in writing, but it's definitely not something that comes to them naturally like other communication does.

On the other hand, an Abian cannot write unless they physically learn how to do so. That's a step beyond what they're used to. In order to learn how to write something, an Abian would actually have to learn the written language of whatever language they chose to write in, learn all of the grammar and vocabulary, and pick up everything just like a human does when they learn to become literate. There are maybe two Abians in the current series who can write out at least a couple of words on paper.