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Old 07-23-2017, 01:37 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by tbone View Post
It's worth keeping in mind that such ratings deal with relative difficulty.
Anyway, a separate question: If other human languages can be as difficult as Very Hard, how about an alien language that's really different? Any way to squeeze that into the concept?
As you say, as is, it's from the perspective of English speakers.
I'd be tempted to leave out levels of difficulty and just keep it GURPS simple.
But, sure it'll work for aliens, just decide how alien; can you even make their noises? But if we're going SF, you're back to machines translating.
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