10-15-2020, 12:30 PM | #21 |
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Re: Banestorm language question - english?
Here's an example of someone speaking it instead of singing it. Put on the subtitles and tell me you aren't hearing words popping out you.
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10-15-2020, 12:32 PM | #22 |
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Re: Banestorm language question - english?
Anyones understanding of anglish can vary.. Anglish was establilshed before Tea in current English.
US game writers seem to have a pronounced failing in understanding of how languages develope.. Understandable, as Yrth is both size and shape of Continental US. |
10-15-2020, 12:49 PM | #23 |
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Re: Banestorm language question - english?
Eastern and Western Megalan Anglish should default at -1 spoken without penalty for written, as change is in sounds, not languages itself. Literacy, however shouldn't be as common..
Especially in Yiboraak and Shojoor Goblin should be available at least in broken level . |
10-15-2020, 01:29 PM | #24 | |
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I won't use subtitles, as that would be cheating, IMO, as most in game would rely on speech not writing.
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10-15-2020, 01:47 PM | #25 | |
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Sometimes I morn being a monolingual speaker of bizarrely mutant and orphaned tongue. Then I remember that the language is thankfully widely spoken, and that learning new languages is hard.
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10-15-2020, 01:55 PM | #26 |
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Re: Banestorm language question - english?
For me personally, there's a big difference between different spoken languages and different written languages.
I can often pick out words and even general meaning in a Germanic or Romance written language even when I can't pick out anything in the spoken form.
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10-16-2020, 01:44 AM | #27 |
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Re: Banestorm language question - english?
The trick is to be a native French speaker to get Broken skill in Aralaise for free, then buy that up to native, and then you get Accented skill in Anglish for free, then can buy that up.
No idea how Niall managed things. B25 says 4x as hard without a teacher. Not sure if that modifies B292 from "2 in 1 out" for Self-Teaching up to 4:1 (4x harder than being taught) or up to 8:1 (4x harder than self-teaching) ... ah Blake used magic! so he had a teacher, lucky. It's weird how they don't list all the defaults. Niall should have "Aralaise (Accented; Free from Anglish) [0];" just like the Baron (BS145) but doesn't... and neither of them have "Northland (Broken; Free from Anglish) [0] (ie worth 2 perks: 1 for speak 1 for read) either BS172 Blind Lars also seems kinda mispriced... his Native skill in speaking Northland illiterately should mean a default "Broken" use in yet he pays the full price for speaking Anglish illiterately: 3 points! Since broken is free I think he should only pay 2 points to buy it up, they forgot his perks! |
10-28-2020, 11:51 AM | #28 | |
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04-22-2021, 06:27 AM | #29 |
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Re: Banestorm language question - english?
One thing to keep in mind: English is an extremely varied language. Norwegian and Danish are more similar than Cockney and Hoi Toider, despite the former pair being considered two separate languages and the latter being considered accents or dialects of English. I would imagine if you put somebody from London and somebody from Okracoke in a room, it would be a while before either of them realized the other was even speaking English.
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04-22-2021, 07:32 AM | #30 |
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Re: Banestorm language question - english?
So, my personal take on anglish is that it's basically "Common" from D&D; the trade tongue/patois that every commoner in Megalos and Caithness uses to talk across the Empire.
Mostly because of English's tendency to "chase other languages down dark alleys to mug them for vocabulary," my interpretation of anglish has a lot more french and german loanwords. I also figured the Nobility (of Megalos, at least) probably speaks a more Romance-based language derived from a mix of Latin with French and Italian, which is considered the language of Nobles, Bureaucracy and Poetry. |
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