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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8961039" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>We arent speaking Old Englisch anymore either.</p><p></p><p>But consider Elfs live for 750 years, speaking the same language and producing a huge and influential body of songs and literature.</p><p>Humans want to trade with elfs so they learn a simple form of elfish to talk to them. But Humans also die every 60 (or so) years and the new generation born not only learns to talk to the same elfs, they hear the same elf songs and read elf books.</p><p>Each generation the Human tongue changes and after 12 generations (750/60) the Humans have stopped using the archaic language of their ancestors and are all speaking Common - which is actually a simplified Elf creole.</p><p></p><p>The PHB suggests that Halflings speak Common but also have an almost ‘sacred’ language used in their oral tradition they dont otherwise share (irl compare spoken Coptic). The other races dont live in the same areas as Elfs, and Dwarfs, Orcs and Dragons arent likely to adopt an Elfish language either</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8961039, member: 1125"] We arent speaking Old Englisch anymore either. But consider Elfs live for 750 years, speaking the same language and producing a huge and influential body of songs and literature. Humans want to trade with elfs so they learn a simple form of elfish to talk to them. But Humans also die every 60 (or so) years and the new generation born not only learns to talk to the same elfs, they hear the same elf songs and read elf books. Each generation the Human tongue changes and after 12 generations (750/60) the Humans have stopped using the archaic language of their ancestors and are all speaking Common - which is actually a simplified Elf creole. The PHB suggests that Halflings speak Common but also have an almost ‘sacred’ language used in their oral tradition they dont otherwise share (irl compare spoken Coptic). The other races dont live in the same areas as Elfs, and Dwarfs, Orcs and Dragons arent likely to adopt an Elfish language either [/QUOTE]
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