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<blockquote data-quote="Zhure" data-source="post: 240029" data-attributes="member: 308">Noted. So far it looks like everyone's keeping separate what Arana thinks and what Arana's done.Yes. It sounds similar to modern dwarven but it isn't. A good example (and I'm no linguist, but speak a little of this and that) would be speaking classical Latin to a modern native Italian speaker. Some of the cognates and declensions will be very similar but the two would have a very difficult time exchanging complicated ideas.In this case of modern Italian and classical Latin, the two are still written very similarly, so would be a good grounds for communication. (I took Latin in college and can read Italian fairly well, but can't understand a whit of spoken Italian without a lot of repetition and hand-waving and pointing.)Whether this would be the case or not has to be tried out. <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=":)" />Another example would be modern kanji in Japan and Korea being very similar, as they are all based on Chinese writing. Since communist china has changed some of the basica symbols, oddly the written forms of Japanese and Korean forms of kanji are more similar than the Chinese forms.So using this as an example, writing may be an even more difficult method of communication.(Sorry for muddying the water, I guess my rambling response means you'll have to try and see, but it's not a bad idea.)<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=":)" />Greg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zhure, post: 240029, member: 308"] Noted. So far it looks like everyone's keeping separate what Arana thinks and what Arana's done. Yes. It sounds similar to modern dwarven but it isn't. A good example (and I'm no linguist, but speak a little of this and that) would be speaking classical Latin to a modern native Italian speaker. Some of the cognates and declensions will be very similar but the two would have a very difficult time exchanging complicated ideas. In this case of modern Italian and classical Latin, the two are still written very similarly, so would be a good grounds for communication. (I took Latin in college and can read Italian fairly well, but can't understand a whit of spoken Italian without a lot of repetition and hand-waving and pointing.) Whether this would be the case or not has to be tried out. :) Another example would be modern kanji in Japan and Korea being very similar, as they are all based on Chinese writing. Since communist china has changed some of the basica symbols, oddly the written forms of Japanese and Korean forms of kanji are more similar than the Chinese forms. So using this as an example, writing may be an even more difficult method of communication. (Sorry for muddying the water, I guess my rambling response means you'll have to try and see, but it's not a [i]bad[/i] idea.) :) Greg [/QUOTE]

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