>people in his fantasy medieval setting speak the same way 20 miles apart
>>96759768I make my players flip a coin after every character creation to see if they died in childhood and if they get tails, they need to make a new character. Similarly at the start of every session I make them flip a coin to see if they have passed away from a common cold.
>>96759768yesthe one dude in the world who could appreciate what you are implying is not in my groupnot as I would be capable of doing something like picrelbut I did a table of proverbs different peoples use in everyday life, does that qualify?and no my group doesn't seem to care or even notice
>>96759768It's a norm everywhere that isn't England and the Caucasus.And at least Caucasus is tall fucking alpine mountains that prevent people from mingling together..Also>Local dialects of the same language>Actual separate languagesYeah, stay fucked, dumb cunt
Scouse?Jodie Comer is from Liverpool and speaks in Scouse.
>>96759885I'll give OP the benefit of the doubt here.Speak the same doesn't mean he's complaining they all speak the same language, nor would it make any sense to post a dialect map if that's his gripe.cool your jets a little.>It's a norm everywhere that isn't England and the CaucasusIn regards to languages or dialects?
>>96759885It's not even dialects.It's just different accents.Which is fucking nothing.>>96759920Nta, but I'm fucking tired of this type of bait thread. It's as old as /tg/ and it wasn't fun the first time and is such as hell not fun 16 years later.
>>96759768So what?Describing what people say isn't a 1:1 representation of how they talk, given that it's a fantasy game.Or do you think that races like snake or cat people, with vastly different teeth and tongues from humans, would actually remotely sound like humans when talking, you fucking meat cabbage?You absolute retard.You stupid faggot.Use your brain, shitstain.
>>96761234OK WELL IN THE BIBLE LORE BOOK EXPLAIN HOW A SERPENT TEMPTED A HUMAN
>>96759768Yes, because it's fantasy. Language isn't natural, it's a gift of the gods.
>>96759805Just play Traveller.
>>96759768Dialects aren't created by distance, but by how long a population has been isolated. You could have a whole continent speaking the same way if it's been populated recently or there is a lot of interconnectivity among it's population centers.
Didn’t some places like China have unified dialects so things could proceed more smoothly? What causes divergent language autism?
>>96762917>HOW A SERPENT TEMPTED A HUMANIt's more likely than you think!
>>96762917Try saying something remotely relevant to the posts you link.
>>96762990Ich weiß das nicht.
>>96759768From the Isle of Wight up to about Perth, everyone was more-or-less mutually intelligible. Also in most of eastern and southern Wales.
>>96759768those are actually pretty large areas by old world standards
>>96762976This. And English itself is relatively standardized compared to some dialects (Chinese), it's not like certain regions of England still use Middle English or something. At worst their pronunciation is not intelligible.
>>96759768Fair point, however I must ask what you intend as an alternative to "Common" language across a landscape?
>no rpg that is just England>where you roll your English region and dialect
>>96762990currently china is working to rid of cantonese and standardize mandarin if that's what you mean
>>96762997She keeps twisting around a full 360 every 10 seconds, how is she not getting twisted in half?
>>96762990It's basically impossible even nowadays to have a truly unified language, what the hell makes you think that anyone before the era of instant global communication stood a fucking chance? Language divergence starts with dialects, which are usually mutually intelligible with any other given dialect of the same language, and as time passes the way different dialects pronounce words, their word choice, and slang cause them to grow more and more distinct until they become unintelligible to one another (And toss in some influences from other languages along the way to speed things up) Any "Unified language" back in the day was basically just "all the important people we care about speak the same language but fucking who cares what comes out of the mouths of the peasants"
>>96764672Some sounds/words sound gayer than others.
>>96764672Hey, there was also Conlangs like Esperanto.
>>96759768>when you are more autistic than Tolkien
>>96759768Map needs updating: the cockney accent is pretty much extinct.
>>96764672There was Latin than only lost his importance once the Usanian come to power, any somewhat learned man and lots of romances talkers comunicated that way, even in the med there were romances patois everywhere, like Sabin I think it was called, than was used in North africa and only died when the pied noirs were extripated from there.
>>96765399Opened the thread to post it. Replace it with WAOE (Wog Approximation of English)
>>96764091The only important part is what do you call one of these?
>>96759768Not only that, but poeplw on entirely different landmass especially or even planes will essentially speak the same language, with some variation. It's an innate thing, hardwired into their brains as much as any bodily function.
>>96765399Yew clearly aven't been to sawf end lately, mate
>>96765657xklacidons
>>96765657Roll on top, buns underneath, third layer is baps. Can't see the ones to the back too well but there may be a barm poking out
>>96765657british "food"
>>96764651What would happen IRL is that the twists would slowly propagate down her snake body until they reached the end and twirled the tail a bit.
>>96765508Latin was already replaced by French by the 17th Century at the latest, and had largely been replaced more modern Italian since the Renaissance.
>>96759768ERMMM GM? YOU HAVEN'T MEMORISED EVERY ACCENT OF ENGLISH AND DONE 100 SILLY VOICES THIS SESSION! THIS GAME IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT THE SILLY VOICES!
>>96759936As this anon said, Dialects and Accents are not the same thing. Scots is a Dialect, most Scots can't speak Scots. OPs map is a map of accents mislabelled as a map of dialects.
>>96759768And? I mean, just give them Common and a local language/dialect, and you're good.
This chart is definitely not specific enough and is even just outright wrong in places. That's not where Derry is, for example. That's Donegal. And the accents here are way too broadstroke. Someone from the Shankill Road in Belfast won't talk like someone from the Malone Road in Belfast (about 2.5-3 miles apart, for those unaware).Anyway, I really like the Brummie accent and I dont know why so many English people hate it.
>>96763052>Retard can't put 2 and 2 twogetherStupid idiot.
>>96759885>It's a norm everywhere that isn't England and the Caucasus.I'm sorry but you're completely wrong. "Standard" languages that are the same across entire nation-states are an entirely modern phenomenon. Even today, the typical pattern for most languages is a dialect continuum where one person speaking the language at the one end of the language area can't really understand someone very well from the opposite end of the language area.And even in places where that isn't the case, like modern European countries with national standard language varieties, for most of them that's only the case as of 50-100 years ago. 100 years ago, only a tiny fraction of people in Italy spoke the "Italian" standard language. The vast majority of people spoke regional dialects/languages. Somebody from Sicily would not understand someone from Venice, it'd sound just as different to them as someone speaking Spanish or Catalonian.
>>96770899>Catalonianmeant to say Catalan*
>>96759768>dialect called sutherland>its in the northern most part of the landBoy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
