(11-21-2015, 05:21 PM)Lyse Crofte Wrote: Not sure how I feel about the idea that if you curse you're ignorant is, as it does come up in my roleplay often enough and my personal life, but moving on from that little bit...
Linguistics are surprisingly interesting, especially in a world that has no defined history in that respect. There is no timeline really to base Eorzea on because it doesn't exist in reality, it's a creative world made up by the people who exist in it and it's framework which is created by people outside, who often don't think about the depth of roleplay that can happen.
While it's fine to say you don't enjoy it in the RP you participate in, to say it doesn't belong is like telling someone that they're playing make-believe wrong. We define the nature of language in this world in whatever we see fits our RP, yeah? So it has a place if someone chooses it has a place, I suppose.
Well, I never said "if you curse you're ignorant." As I said, among familiar company, I swear an absolute fuckton. (Ha.) But I'm also acutely aware of the "low-class crass" trope. More often than not, if every other word that comes out of a character's mouth is "fuck," they probably fit that description. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and I've found that it's usually the player's intention in the first place. I simply think that the game has given us a number of colorful alternatives as well as more general templates for everyday Eorzean speech, and I find it far more immersive to actually use those.
Obviously, I don't go around telling people how to roleplay, or shun everyone who feels differently - ask Virella or Meyla, as I've RPed with them on several occasions, and they both have characters who use "fuck" as if they were in a Tarantino film.
Yvelont Navarre
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
Parn Paparn
IC Blog for Yvelont: http://never-your-pawn.tumblr.com
OOC Blog: http://navarre-again.tumblr.com
