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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1191496" data-attributes="member: 172">I split the difference myself.I don't particularly care for the notion of a general &quot;common&quot; tongue, but I don't particularly care for some more in-depth treatments of language.I treat the &quot;common&quot; language in the books as a placeholder for &quot;the prevalent local language.&quot;I do have a &quot;trade tongue&quot; and have been using it in my campaign for most of the time the campaign has been in existence (over 15 years). Essentially, trade tongue is a somewhat pidgin amalgamation of the major dialects of the two major languages in the &quot;inner sea&quot; region. It's really the local language of the major tradeport in the inner sea region, but the fact that it contains elements from the languages of the two major cultures in the region and that it is spoken in a port frequented by many travellers means that it is fairly widely spoken along the major coastal cities and traderoutes on the inner sea.Backwaters and the opposite coast, however, do not speak the trade tongue so frequently. Even in regions where it is spoken, members of certain cultural and ethnic backgrounds frequently use the language to converse among themselves, so there is certainly the potential for me to make language a barrier if I feel like it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 1191496, member: 172"] I split the difference myself. I don't particularly care for the notion of a general "common" tongue, but I don't particularly care for some more in-depth treatments of language. I treat the "common" language in the books as a placeholder for "the prevalent local language." I [i]do[/i] have a "trade tongue" and have been using it in my campaign for most of the time the campaign has been in existence (over 15 years). Essentially, trade tongue is a somewhat pidgin amalgamation of the major dialects of the two major languages in the "inner sea" region. It's [i]really[/i] the local language of the major tradeport in the inner sea region, but the fact that it contains elements from the languages of the two major cultures in the region and that it is spoken in a port frequented by many travellers means that it is fairly widely spoken along the major coastal cities and traderoutes on the inner sea. Backwaters and the opposite coast, however, do not speak the trade tongue so frequently. Even in regions where it is spoken, members of certain cultural and ethnic backgrounds frequently use the language to converse among themselves, so there is certainly the potential for me to make language a barrier if I feel like it. [/QUOTE]

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