What language is the Common of our world?

[Turjan]

To this day, Tokyo Japanese is considered "standard" Japanese, a concept which has little or no meaning in English where there is no attempt to standardize the language.

You have never been to the UK, eh? I had a friend in Northern Ireland who went to a special language school in order to learn standard English (I don't remember whether it was Oxford or Queen's English at that time), because this was necessary to get a better job.

 

[rgard]

I voted English, for many reasons already stated.

I'd also like to point out that the Common of Faerun is ALSO English, as proved in the D&D cartoon - the kids didn't have to learn another language, no one said anything about a translating magic, and, even if they had, there were several times when such magic would have been negated by things going on in the episode and they STILL understood everyone.

Well done! I'm not sure why there are any posts beyond Torm's! If English is the common of Faerun, it must be the common of our world too!

Might as well close the thread!

Again, well done!

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Barak]

The D&D cartoon was translated in other languages?

 

[rgard]

You have never been to the UK, eh? I had a friend in Northern Ireland who went to a special language school in order to learn standard English (I don't remember whether it was Oxford or Queen's English at that time), because this was necessary to get a better job.

I suspect that the intent of the course was to work the accent out of the speaker. I lived in the UK for 6 years and the hardest accents to understand (for me anyway) were Northern Ireland English and Glasgow English (Glaswegian?) accents.

That said, every region of the UK has it's individual slang words so some of the class may have worked on those as well.

Sign me a proud speaker of Wenglish. If you aren't 'tidy', you are wrong!!!

Rich

 

[Drowbane]

...What do you consider the Common of 21st century Earth?...

English.

 

[Hussar]

You have never been to the UK, eh? I had a friend in Northern Ireland who went to a special language school in order to learn standard English (I don't remember whether it was Oxford or Queen's English at that time), because this was necessary to get a better job.

That might be true in England, but you'd have a pretty tough time convincing anyone what Standard English is. American Mid-West? There are more English speakers in India than in the rest of the world. Canadian English (which gets my vote). Aussie? Perhaps a Welsh accent ? Southern New Zealand?

Heh.

Heck, even BBC doesn't standardize it's newscasters anymore.

 

[rgard]

That might be true in England, but you'd have a pretty tough time convincing anyone what Standard English is. American Mid-West? There are more English speakers in India than in the rest of the world. Canadian English (which gets my vote). Aussie? Perhaps a Welch accent ? Southern New Zealand?

Heh.

Heck, even BBC doesn't standardize it's newscasters anymore.

That's 'Welsh' accent, please.



Rich

 

[Brother Richard]

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I would say English is the main language, but you could also say it is something else. I have been to many different countries and I am pretty sure that sadly, computer slang is used internationally always. I have never seen computer slang in different languages, but maybe I am wrong.

 

[Hussar]

That's 'Welsh' accent, please.



Rich

Fixed, sorry.

Heh, L337 as the new common?

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[Conaill]

That is still nowhere as pervasive as common is in the RAW D&D world, in which every race speaks it, without exception.

Exactly. English may be used as a trade language, or even a pidjin in some places. But there are billions of humans on earth who can't hold a conversation in English. That's far from being a "Common" in the original D&D sense.