Author: PI Joe (---.51.122)
Date: 07-02-2002 21:10
QUOTE:
"The language heard most, however, is Common, a tongue shared by all who take part in the culture at large. With all these languages in use, it is easy for people to learn others' languages, and adventurers often speak several tongues.
All characters know how to speak Common."
It didn't really bother me all that much. In the Philippines, there are two 'common tongues' - English & Tagalog (or a bastardized version of both being merged termed 'Tag-lish').
Go to the north and they can understand you, though folks speak Ilocano there (different variations of Ilocano, some really close, some grossly different). You can speak Visayan, Batangueno, Chabacano etc. and the other 50 to 70 dialects / languages spoken in the 7,100 islands of the country (linguists disagree as to which are really dialects and which are languages so I gave that range).
The English / Tagalog grammar may be spotty to terrible, but you can get most of your message across (unless it's highly technical). Try English first, since the roots of Tagalog words can mean something else in the other dialects / languages. If you're really desperate, you COULD try Spanish - we borrowed lots of Spanish words in the various dialects.
I think that the issue for me wasn't the fact that everyone spoke Common in D&D - rather it assumed that everyone spoke Common just as well as the person from the next country.
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