As someone who's studied linguistics in undergrad, I really enjoy this take on language in your fantasy RPGs by @PrismaticWasteland
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As someone who's studied linguistics in undergrad, I really enjoy this take on language in your fantasy RPGs by @PrismaticWasteland
The Languages of D&D Imply a Specific Setting — Prismatic Wasteland
If you start from the premise that languages in D&D make sense you can extrapolate a bit about its implied setting.
Prismatic Wasteland (www.prismaticwasteland.com)
I have thoughts now about how something like all the best mining or stone crafting books are written in Dwarven, and common is just a lingua franca of interregional diplomacy and trade. So even outside dwarves you'd have craftspeople using Dwarven like dancers use French for things like the pas de deux.
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As someone who's studied linguistics in undergrad, I really enjoy this take on language in your fantasy RPGs by @PrismaticWasteland
The Languages of D&D Imply a Specific Setting — Prismatic Wasteland
If you start from the premise that languages in D&D make sense you can extrapolate a bit about its implied setting.
Prismatic Wasteland (www.prismaticwasteland.com)
I have thoughts now about how something like all the best mining or stone crafting books are written in Dwarven, and common is just a lingua franca of interregional diplomacy and trade. So even outside dwarves you'd have craftspeople using Dwarven like dancers use French for things like the pas de deux.
@squishymage42 @PrismaticWasteland i am of an age where to do honours in chemistry, you had to do one semester of German...
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@squishymage42 @PrismaticWasteland i am of an age where to do honours in chemistry, you had to do one semester of German...
@aeduna @PrismaticWasteland I have friends whose PhD programs required second research languages.
(Which as a Ling major whose BA required a full year of at least one Indo-European and one non-Indo-European language, I fully thought was awesome, 6 years French, 4 years Russian, and 2 years Japanese in my case)
