do you thee and thou and whence?
BiggusGeekus
That's Latin for "cool"
Nay, sirrah.
Mouseferatu
Hero
Nah. Common isn't English anyway, so if you assume you're just translating, might as well translate into modern English, not archaic. 
That, and it's just really hard to take seriously. I think I've done the "thee/thou" think maybe twice in all my years of gaming, and that was for a character or a document that was, itself, archaic.
That, and it's just really hard to take seriously. I think I've done the "thee/thou" think maybe twice in all my years of gaming, and that was for a character or a document that was, itself, archaic.
We've got some interesting language conventions here...
Most of my gamers only know one language. The characters, however, are frequently multi-lingual. Whatever is one to do?
Well, we generally use "Common = modern english without technological references"
For other languages, we then prefix a code-word to denote the language used. We've got Agruk (dwarven), Ishcabibble (elven), Farfegnugen (gnomish), Go'Cha! (orcish), and so on. So, if a character wanted to insult you in dwarven, the player might say, "Agruk: Your mother has the cooking-skill of a doorknob."
Then, on top of that, I'll tend to use archaic English (with thees, thous, and forsooths) to represent a character speaking in somewhat archaic fashion. Frequently, a character speaking inother than his native tongue gets teh archaic treatment. An elf speaking in common, or a dwarf speaking in gnomish, will tend to throw in the older words...
Most of my gamers only know one language. The characters, however, are frequently multi-lingual. Whatever is one to do?
Well, we generally use "Common = modern english without technological references"
For other languages, we then prefix a code-word to denote the language used. We've got Agruk (dwarven), Ishcabibble (elven), Farfegnugen (gnomish), Go'Cha! (orcish), and so on. So, if a character wanted to insult you in dwarven, the player might say, "Agruk: Your mother has the cooking-skill of a doorknob."
Then, on top of that, I'll tend to use archaic English (with thees, thous, and forsooths) to represent a character speaking in somewhat archaic fashion. Frequently, a character speaking inother than his native tongue gets teh archaic treatment. An elf speaking in common, or a dwarf speaking in gnomish, will tend to throw in the older words...
