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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Eternal" data-source="post: 801834" data-attributes="member: 7932">This is the technique I employ when I'm put on the spot by players.  I seldom get put on the spot by my Dungeon Master, if only because I have so much more time to prepare for this kind of thing as a player (and so much less to prepare for!  1 char rather than a world full.)My newest dwarven character caused this question for me in the first place.  I've been trying to think about what languages he speaks reasonably - for example, although he's learned the common tongue (Areymish, I think the local common is called - ), he's grown up speaking Dwarven.  So he thinks in Dwarven, and therefore I've been trying to figure out how the Dwarven language works, so I can figure out how my character thinks.I've decided, among other things, that he uses his native name for his race - Dhurvakku - rather than the common word, Dwarf.  After all, if you met a bunch of aliens who called humans "Fillitati", which would you use when talking to said aliens?  Are you really going to call yourself a Fillitati just because they do?The problem is, my DM seems to think that my 'Dwarven' words sound too much like Klingon - which I find highly annoying, especially since I can't really argue with him.  So I'm ending up limiting my character's use of his native tongue far more than I wanted to, because I don't want to encourage ridicule from the other gamers.  I guess that if my use of 'Dwarven' sounded cooler and more 'realistic' (as opposed to Star Trekkish, I suppose), then I wouldn't feel constrained from using it.  So I confess - my secret motive in posting this thread was to find someone who would reveal a means for using cool and realistic sounding 'Dwarven' words.*sigh*.</blockquote>

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