(07-18-2013, 08:39 PM)Grinner Wrote: I should think that the races do have, or have had in the past, unique spoken languages. Not only do they have vastly different naming conventions, but some of the races have come from previously cut off areas, like the Miquo'te and Lalafell, right?ÂTo your first and second paragraphs, yes, that would possibly be true for members of different races who have had no previous exposure to Eorzea's common tongue. OR their ancient languages are lost to some other common tongue in some other land. Not to mention that common has perhaps spread beyond Eorzea through trade with other continents by sea, which is something that happens.
So it would be logical that those races with no previous exposure to the others would historically speak a different language.
And the point of the original post was to suggest a way to add racial/cultural flavor, not demand conformation to real-world languages.
Regards
Addendum: Not every minute detail has to be spelled out in "the lore". There are some things that tend to be fairly universal and lend credibility to the setting.
It's hard to say. If you wanted to play a member of a race who spoke some "racial language," you'd probably be a very isolated member of that race, from another land entirely, and your own people in Eorzea wouldn't understand your tongue.
To your third paragraph, I didn't suggest that the OP demanded anything, nor did anyone. When you put it that way, it makes things sound rather more heated than they are, don't you think?
To your addendum, there are a lot of subjective ways to approach taking creative liberties with the lore, and roleplayers rarely agree on some kind of standard with that. However the fewer liberties one takes in the name of personal tastes, the more compatible their character's lore is with the world that the majority of roleplayers acknowledge. That's just a helpful rule of thumb.
That said, I think the lore's pretty clear on how racial languages are handled in Eorzea.
