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<blockquote data-quote="Barak" data-source="post: 3022285" data-attributes="member: 3028">I don't mean the dominant cultures, more the ones with actual societies on the Prime.&nbsp; Let's look at the examples.1-Aboleth. Aboleth speak their own language and Undercommon.This is probably (in my opinion) the best of the four you stated.&nbsp; Of course, they -do- speak Undercommon, and considering they live deeper underground than even the drow..&nbsp;2-Achaierai speak Infernal.They don't live on the Prime.3-Allips don't communicate intelligently at all.I fail to see how that even counts as not speaking common if they don't speak -any- language.4-Angels speak Celestial, Infernal, and Abyssal-- but they have the tongues ability.Not on the Prime, and as you stated, they have tongues anyway.The point is that every member of every single humanoid race (yeah I know, I hadn't said humanoid before.&nbsp; But, really, no animals speak english, either, and I doubt abberations in our world speak it either) speaks common.&nbsp; Or do orcs only speak orc?&nbsp; Now I'm not sure.&nbsp; See the assertion is that english is the common of our world.&nbsp; Not every human, far from it, speak english.&nbsp; Of course, we don't have elves/dwarves/whatever in our world, but we do have more cultures than the average Campaign World has for humans, so it's fair I think to include the dwarves and elves and what not..&nbsp; But they all speak common!&nbsp; To find races that have languages and a culture but do not speak common, I -think- (Not so sure anymore that all races actually do) you have to go with outerplanar races, or weird abberations from the far plane..&nbsp; I doubt that in the &quot;real&quot; world, they speak english in all the outer planes and unexplored planets.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barak, post: 3022285, member: 3028"] I don't mean the dominant cultures, more the ones with actual societies on the Prime. Let's look at the examples. 1-Aboleth. Aboleth speak their own language and Undercommon. This is probably (in my opinion) the best of the four you stated. Of course, they -do- speak Undercommon, and considering they live deeper underground than even the drow.. 2-Achaierai speak Infernal. They don't live on the Prime. 3-Allips don't communicate intelligently at all. I fail to see how that even counts as not speaking common if they don't speak -any- language. 4-Angels speak Celestial, Infernal, and Abyssal-- but they have the tongues ability. Not on the Prime, and as you stated, they have tongues anyway. The point is that every member of every single humanoid race (yeah I know, I hadn't said humanoid before. But, really, no animals speak english, either, and I doubt abberations in our world speak it either) speaks common. Or do orcs only speak orc? Now I'm not sure. See the assertion is that english is the common of our world. Not every human, far from it, speak english. Of course, we don't have elves/dwarves/whatever in our world, but we do have more cultures than the average Campaign World has for humans, so it's fair I think to include the dwarves and elves and what not.. But they all speak common! To find races that have languages and a culture but do not speak common, I -think- (Not so sure anymore that all races actually do) you have to go with outerplanar races, or weird abberations from the far plane.. I doubt that in the "real" world, they speak english in all the outer planes and unexplored planets. [/QUOTE]

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