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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 5030239" data-attributes="member: 2303">If you make dialects into almost-separate languages that reign over wide areas, like it used to be in WHFRP, I can see a point with recording them. In the Old World, all people spoke the same language, but dialects were very obvious and distinct (I guess they were thinking of Hollywood French, Hollywood German and so on). So a person from Estalia (Spain) could understand a person from the Empire (Germany) fine, but the origin of each would be obvious and there could be some minor misunderstandings. And people generally distrust foreigners. But these dialects required a lot more than 8 hours to learn.If a dialect is more local, like a town our county, recording which dialects you know is just too much of a hassle and I'm back at the first-time-use penalties I discussed in my post above.</blockquote>