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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 3040167" data-attributes="member: 1165">It occurs to me that learning magic is like learning another language.In Canada, being bilingual (here that's French and English) is important, but most people can't speak both languages. Even in Quebec (more bilingual people there than in the rest of Canada, I believe) a significant proportion of the province doesn't speak English.Now, I've learned French and Latin at school. Both use the same alphabet as English (the Latin alphabet was all capitals, but we didn't learn it that way).I think learning Latin and English would be easier for someone who reads English as a native language than, say, Greek or Russian. Learning a language like Japanese, which doesn't have an alphabet, would be a lot harder. That takes years. (In fact, China had to simplify it's character system because it was hard to learn. In some civilizations that didn't use an alphabet, like Ancient Egypt, scribes were a social class. Learning to read and write wasn't just a skill you had to develop, it was your job.)Learning magic would be at least as hard, I think, as learning hieroglyphics. And in DnD, that would only cost about two skill points (maybe four for some classes)!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 3040167, member: 1165"] It occurs to me that learning magic is like learning another language. In Canada, being bilingual (here that's French and English) is important, but most people can't speak both languages. Even in Quebec (more bilingual people there than in the rest of Canada, I believe) a significant proportion of the province doesn't speak English. Now, I've learned French and Latin at school. Both use the same alphabet as English (the Latin alphabet was all capitals, but we didn't learn it that way). I think learning Latin and English would be easier for someone who reads English as a native language than, say, Greek or Russian. Learning a language like Japanese, which doesn't have an alphabet, would be a lot harder. That takes years. (In fact, China had to simplify it's character system because it was hard to learn. In some civilizations that didn't use an alphabet, like Ancient Egypt, scribes were a social class. Learning to read and write wasn't just a skill you had to develop, it was your [i]job[/i].) Learning magic would be at least as hard, I think, as learning hieroglyphics. And in DnD, that would only cost about two skill points (maybe four for some classes)! [/QUOTE]

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