Language

[ParaSite]

Exactly like the Dungeons and Dragons system . One global language and different race languages. But stuff like this doesn\'t have priority in the game.

[Qex]

yea there could be a weird barbarian sounding language that really none understood - not even those who talk it themselfs.

like german.... :tongue:

[Daystar]

ROFL

[Haon]

Qex, U will have me laughing for the next few months.

I think PS should have the EQ language system where languages are skills and the better you know the language the less letter scrambling is done.

[leothwyn]

I like the idea separate race languages that can only be understood by native speakers or those who have taken the time to learn them. I also think that a common tongue that is understood by everyone is a necessity.
    But the real reason that I\'m writing is to say that I think that the \'namebook\' idea is a good one. In the Lord of the Rings, the language of the Rohirrim is Anglo-Saxon... Almost every dwarf name that Tolkein used was taken from the Icelandic sagas. So... in that spirit, maybe a list of dwarf names could be compiled from those sagas and from Old Icelandic and Old Norse dictionaries? (Without using any of the ones that Tolkein has already used [Dain, Balin, Thorin, etc.]).

I just did a quick search and found online dictionaries, such as these:
Old Norse Dictionary
Some Icelandic Words (Scroll down about half way).

Anyway, if anyone is interested in compiling some lists of names I\'d be happy to help. (I\'m definitley no expert, but I am interested in old languages - especially Anglo-Saxon).

[DragonWing]

Met het idee voor verschilende talen met een universeele taal ben ik het helemaal eens, maar mischien is het wel geinig als je de eene taal moeilijker te leren maakt als de ander. (zoals in het echt...)

I like the idea of separate languages and 1 universial, but maybe it\'s fun if you make some languages harder to learn than other. ( like in the real world...)  

[ratdudett]

i think different languages would be very cool the only hard part is making them

[Cyonamie]

i didnt read thru the posts cuz they were real long(like the one i makin right now:P)  dwarves speak dwarvish and elves speak elvish, but there should be a tongue that all understand, and rightfully it cant be called english, because many peoples main language is not that.  but maybe the Common Tongue of Humans? or Common for short.  Maybe each language could be similar to another, so maybe you could understand bits and pieces of the language, so the longer u stayed in a place(a dermorian with a klyros who constantly talked in the klyros tongue, then the dermorian would eventually catch onto the language and learn it)  thats my idea, if u can understand it:D

-cyo-

[cmhitman]

but u are forgeting that english (american english anyway) is the universal tongue

[David_HD]

Anyone played Final Fantasy X?

I like the system that is used there. As abhorrent as it is from a linguistics perspective, it does, indeed, give you the impression that you are actually learning the language. What they did is establish a substitution table for English into that other language, and as you find books on that language it replaces those characters with their English counterparts. I think it\'d be really cool if you had numerous different languages that you could learn slowly like that. I don\'t know if (or how) you should recognize a language you don\'t (or only partially) understand. Maybe a different color for each language?