Being your resident Dutch/Europe scum, and dealing with dialect daily. Yeah, I legit couldn't understand people who lived 10KM away from me in one village in particular I used to live in. We have a massive river splitting us apart, so our sister village over all those years got a completely different accent over the village I lived in, despite... being sister cities.
People from Limbourg? Holy mother of are they even speaking Dutch? They were more speaking German from what little time I've spend up there, and I couldn't understand them for shit. (I had an easier time understanding my friend's german mother then his weirdo dialect.)
Same with Belgium/Flemmish (what I can understand/speak 70% ish of the time) It is still considered Dutch, but they have so many odd ye olde Dutch words thrown in it, and French as well, to the point I just sit there ???? at times. I'm grateful my own dialect is one who barely changed since the 1600, beyond adding more modern words, but my damn.
Dialects can be super duper strange, to the point you can barely understand them. Separate language? No. Does it overlap? Yeah. But can you understand each other if you don't default to the common way of speaking? Hell no.
So that's how I imagine the deal is with Doman/Eorzean tongue. You can pick words out, you can converse together in your common tongue, but as soon one starts slipping into their dialect, it becomes a shitfest to try to make out what the other is saying.
People from Limbourg? Holy mother of are they even speaking Dutch? They were more speaking German from what little time I've spend up there, and I couldn't understand them for shit. (I had an easier time understanding my friend's german mother then his weirdo dialect.)
Same with Belgium/Flemmish (what I can understand/speak 70% ish of the time) It is still considered Dutch, but they have so many odd ye olde Dutch words thrown in it, and French as well, to the point I just sit there ???? at times. I'm grateful my own dialect is one who barely changed since the 1600, beyond adding more modern words, but my damn.
Dialects can be super duper strange, to the point you can barely understand them. Separate language? No. Does it overlap? Yeah. But can you understand each other if you don't default to the common way of speaking? Hell no.
So that's how I imagine the deal is with Doman/Eorzean tongue. You can pick words out, you can converse together in your common tongue, but as soon one starts slipping into their dialect, it becomes a shitfest to try to make out what the other is saying.
