>Why yes, when you break down the word "English" down to its ruits and extrapolate the meanings, "Language of the people who live near hooked rivers that make swords called 'Saex's" is a bit of a mouthful >Common? Meaning "Vulgar, ordinary or mundane" in terms of a language being spoken by most people? How absurd!
I would assume the setting has ancient cultures that have existed and developed and been recorded longer than what we have in real life, because we're almost at the point where we simply refer to the English language as "Common", but not quite there yet. We need a few more lesser cultures to die out first before that happens
The Immortals be thanked but we're finally back to Mystara, those people speaks Common, aka Thyatian, the langua franca of our beloved Known World. It's the last time I ever go to Ravenloft for vacations.
>it's called "Common" because it's spoken by human commoners >human nobles speak Elfish as a lingua franca because they want to pretend to be more refined and sophisticated
>Why yes, when you break down the word "English" down to its ruits and extrapolate the meanings, "Language of the people who live near hooked rivers that make swords called 'Saex's" is a bit of a mouthful >Common? Meaning "Vulgar, ordinary or mundane" in terms of a language being spoken by most people? How absurd!
These are objectively correct and obvious to anyone with a passing interest in quite frankly anything really.
>fantasy setting >characters use words based off of real-world locations (e.g. "cologne" or "geyser") that would be completely nonsensical in their world
The Greeks from Greece speak Greek.
As their economical and cultural dominance spread, more people who weren't Greeks began to speak Greek from Greece.
They don't call themselves "Greek," that was a Roman thing because every Hellenistic colony around the Italian peninsula was owned by the Graeci city state around the time.
The Hellenes from Hellas spoke Koinè Diálektos you undereducated baboon
I have had GMs do this before and my response is to ask them what the dominant human language actually is, and put that on my sheet instead. Never had it be a problem, and if they hadn't thought of anything, my simple questions about it have always prodded them into making something up and enriching the setting and verisimilitude of their game world.
>my simple questions about it have always prodded them into making something up and enriching the setting and verisimilitude of their game world.
I love DMs who are cool about this kind of thing, but so many of them can't seem to grasp the simple idea that you can build the setting up as you play more, you can literally just improv everything.
One time our DM asked another player where their character was from, and the character jokingly said Texas, so we just started improving a fantasy version of Texhas, a Strange Land to the far south where man has invented a new technology called firearms and we ended up actually going to Texhas later in the campaign,
In my setting, the Common language is a divine constant, bestowed to humans by the progenitor god whose corpse birthed the individual cultural gods of each human faction. Oh, and the human factions are basically Celts, Vikings and Greeks. Because I am lazy.
Holy shit, you're still namegayging here?
Just popped back in for a little visit. What's up?
I'll tell you what isn't up. Quality of the board.
Yeah seems even slower than the last time I was here - except for that AI slop thread lol. I'm going to contribute when I catch it fresh.
Probably since you weren't here shitting the place up
Disregard this, I suck wieners.
Using my trip for the first time in years to inform everyone of the wisdom I have gained by being on this board since 2006: /tg/ was never good
>>the setting's primary language is called "Esperanto"
>Esperanto
Now I will play your Katamari Damacy based TTRPG
Those balls better be as enormous as my own.
Mia samideano!
I would like to know how to speak the otehr setting's conlangs.
>Why yes, when you break down the word "English" down to its ruits and extrapolate the meanings, "Language of the people who live near hooked rivers that make swords called 'Saex's" is a bit of a mouthful
>Common? Meaning "Vulgar, ordinary or mundane" in terms of a language being spoken by most people? How absurd!
>setting has a “primary language” at all
Utter disdain.
What's wrong with a little realism anon? We're all communicating in English in this thread for a reason.
あなたは濃密な白人です
I would assume the setting has ancient cultures that have existed and developed and been recorded longer than what we have in real life, because we're almost at the point where we simply refer to the English language as "Common", but not quite there yet. We need a few more lesser cultures to die out first before that happens
The Immortals be thanked but we're finally back to Mystara, those people speaks Common, aka Thyatian, the langua franca of our beloved Known World. It's the last time I ever go to Ravenloft for vacations.
>deletes the meme arrows
>literal crying
>Pacifics
You are the biggest moron on this board.
Languages never matter in the first place, so why should I care?
Oh, so it's French.
I react by leaving and playing an actual game.
I don't care because I'm there to play a game and not to look for things to b***h about.
>live in a fantasy world where ENGLAND doesn't exist
>care about the most COMMON language not being ENGLISH
WHO CARES
>it's called "Common" because it's spoken by human commoners
>human nobles speak Elfish as a lingua franca because they want to pretend to be more refined and sophisticated
OP is an "mmhhh grayons" tier brainlet.
These are objectively correct and obvious to anyone with a passing interest in quite frankly anything really.
Uhm you mean like how the Greeks called the dialect spoken in the Hellenic period Koine which actually means "Common?"
I am very smart.
This, but Sol Common. Specific dialect of Galactic Common.
I ask the GM if I can learn Uncommon
Undercommon? Sure.
what about underuncommon?
That's just Common
I'm trans btw. Don't know if it matters
>fantasy setting
>characters use words based off of real-world locations (e.g. "cologne" or "geyser") that would be completely nonsensical in their world
The Greeks from Greece speak Greek.
As their economical and cultural dominance spread, more people who weren't Greeks began to speak Greek from Greece.
They don't call themselves "Greek," that was a Roman thing because every Hellenistic colony around the Italian peninsula was owned by the Graeci city state around the time.
The Hellenes from Hellas spoke Koinè Diálektos you undereducated baboon
The Greeks spoke Common Greek.
>Even acknowledging the existence of language in the first place
ngmi
if you don't want to go full autism and make up a bunch of functional fantasy languages this is the way to go
>the setting's primary language is called "uncommon"
kino
ive only seen bugchud do this
Koine.
>what is English language
I have had GMs do this before and my response is to ask them what the dominant human language actually is, and put that on my sheet instead. Never had it be a problem, and if they hadn't thought of anything, my simple questions about it have always prodded them into making something up and enriching the setting and verisimilitude of their game world.
>my simple questions about it have always prodded them into making something up and enriching the setting and verisimilitude of their game world.
I love DMs who are cool about this kind of thing, but so many of them can't seem to grasp the simple idea that you can build the setting up as you play more, you can literally just improv everything.
One time our DM asked another player where their character was from, and the character jokingly said Texas, so we just started improving a fantasy version of Texhas, a Strange Land to the far south where man has invented a new technology called firearms and we ended up actually going to Texhas later in the campaign,
>Bitter nogames(ben) tells others how to have fun
In my setting, the Common language is a divine constant, bestowed to humans by the progenitor god whose corpse birthed the individual cultural gods of each human faction. Oh, and the human factions are basically Celts, Vikings and Greeks. Because I am lazy.