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daisywords · 9 months

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I think there's more room in (alt-world) fantasy to incorporate the language barrier aspect. It's fine and all we can wave away (for the most part) characters from different regions/countries just being able to speak the same language no problem. Characters all being polyglots for plot convenience, whatever, I get it. But. Think about how much potential there is here. Characters that have to work together without being able to communicate! Characters that communicate through interpreters! Characters that work as interpreters!!!

#I am well practiced at putting away my linguistic suspension of disbelief #BUT #there's so much underused flavor we could be adding!#I'm pickier abt this with my own wips tbh #starlightverse has three languages at play and Alya growing up bilingual does inform her character and identity #and DaDBaB...there is a lingua franca of sorts that is pretty much spoken universally #but I can get away with that only because of the fact that the entire population bottlenecked severely only 5000 years ago #AND since then we've spent large swaths of time where the entirely of known humanity has been more or less under the rule of one empire #Anyway the Priory of the Orange tree did annoy me for this bc of the one character who was communicating through and interpreter #but then revealed later that they could speak the main character's language the whole time as some sort of power move #''yeah of course I speak every language what like it's hard?''#girl just let her use an interpreter that was the ONE TIME we weren't waving away language barriers #anyway

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