(01-22-2017, 12:18 AM)Kurt S. Wrote: Also the way I understand it is that these differences could be as wide as say Mandarin to Cantonese, or as narrow as uhh Australia to New Zealand.Â
I mean I'm sure the difference between Aldenard regions with other Aldenard regions follows more pronunciation than anything else.Â
Meanwhile say Othard to Aldenard could be mandarin to cantonese. There'd be similarities but it'd still be hard to get a grip on the language entirely without some time to get accustomed to it.Â
Also let's not forget that we have the echo.
Throughout various quest lines, foreigners have been conversing with native Eorzeans who do not possess the Echo just fine.
To my knowledge, the only confirmation we have of an entirely different language being spoken in the PRESENT day is whatever the 'Xaela common tongue' is that most Xaela used for cross-tribe communication in Othard (I suppose one could also count the whistle and click system of the Geneq). And even then, we have no idea if that language is necessarily just straight-up Mongolian or not.
Anything else is speculation at this point. (And yes, this even applies to Doma. Any Doman terms are highly implied to be part of a dialect.)
All of that being said, I think you can still effectively RP a character that has difficulty with communication. Unnamed Merc pretty much already gave most of the suggestions I would've thrown out there. But at the end of the day, you ultimately do you, of course.
