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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyMage" data-source="post: 699379" data-attributes="member: 565">If the fantasy world models the real one, then along side common is going to be any number of pidgins and creoles, mixtures of different languages intended for basic communication, although in the case of creoles they approach being a new language entirely.&nbsp; And just knowing the languages involved doesn't necessarily mean you'll understand the pidgin based on it.&nbsp; Even if the character knows elvish and common, that does not mean he'll understand a trade pidgin mixture of elvish and common.There are a few linguists who frequent these boards.&nbsp; I'd like to see some of these issues discussed by someone with some real background, rather than my amateur-ish musings.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="CrazyMage, post: 699379, member: 565"] If the fantasy world models the real one, then along side common is going to be any number of pidgins and creoles, mixtures of different languages intended for basic communication, although in the case of creoles they approach being a new language entirely. And just knowing the languages involved doesn't necessarily mean you'll understand the pidgin based on it. Even if the character knows elvish and common, that does not mean he'll understand a trade pidgin mixture of elvish and common. There are a few linguists who frequent these boards. I'd like to see some of these issues discussed by someone with some real background, rather than my amateur-ish musings.:) [/QUOTE]

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