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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5684660" data-attributes="member: 2205">I'm jealous!&nbsp; The first edition was actually much more robust.&nbsp; I got this second because it was easily and cheaply available, but I was disappointed in all the stuff it didn't have that I remember from the older copy.Still... highly useful book.&nbsp; Use it all the time.To give a bit more granularity, I've made several spreadhseet tabs with names pulled--mostly from the 1st edition of the book, which I got from the library (which was some trick all its own, since it's usually filed in non-circulating Reference sections, if you can find it at all) and each tab contains a blend of closely related language names.&nbsp; But I added some other stuff too.&nbsp; For example, for my Terrasan language, standard dialect, I have some Portuguese, some Catalan (taken from various spots on the Internet) and some Medieval Spanish all mixed in and alphabetized.&nbsp; For the northern dialect, I have a bunch of Italian, Occitan and a few French names.&nbsp; For the far eastern dialect, it's mostly Romanian.&nbsp; Farmiliar enough to be easy for most people to catch, yet just different enough that it doesn't sound too &quot;real worldy.&quot;&nbsp; I didn't want to just use plain Spanish and make that part of my setting sound like southern California; I wanted to make it sound like a fantasy analogue of the post-Medieval Crown of Aragon, or something like that.&nbsp; Much more apporpriate for a high seas swashbuckling than L.A.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 5684660, member: 2205"] I'm jealous! The first edition was actually much more robust. I got this second because it was easily and cheaply available, but I was disappointed in all the stuff it [I]didn't[/I] have that I remember from the older copy. Still... highly useful book. Use it all the time. To give a bit more granularity, I've made several spreadhseet tabs with names pulled--mostly from the 1st edition of the book, which I got from the library (which was some trick all its own, since it's usually filed in non-circulating Reference sections, if you can find it at all) and each tab contains a blend of closely related language names. But I added some other stuff too. For example, for my Terrasan language, standard dialect, I have some Portuguese, some Catalan (taken from various spots on the Internet) and some Medieval Spanish all mixed in and alphabetized. For the northern dialect, I have a bunch of Italian, Occitan and a few French names. For the far eastern dialect, it's mostly Romanian. Farmiliar enough to be easy for most people to catch, yet just different enough that it doesn't sound too "real worldy." I didn't want to just use plain Spanish and make that part of my setting sound like southern California; I wanted to make it sound like a fantasy analogue of the post-Medieval Crown of Aragon, or something like that. Much more apporpriate for a high seas swashbuckling than L.A. [/QUOTE]

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