I love it when games remove a 'common tongue' entirely. It is unrealistic and doing away with it is great for RP.

In a game as full of casual players as Lusternia, though, and where people of different races interact so often, it would be too detrimental to bother with.

What does it cost you to learn those languages?

Nothing.

Furrikini is his automatic racial language.

Yeah I tried to roleplay Laneth having a slight mental breakdown and 'forgetting' how to speak common...all I ever got was tells telling me to SPEAK COMMON, noob...without the noob part.

I don't mean entirely, just installing an emphasis on being able to interact easier/better within your own culture than outside it. Otherwise languages cease to have any meaning. Especially now that anyone can share them.

Yeah, I haven't even learned my last language slot yet, so I can't have maxed out.

That would have been a little hard considering you'd have to play as you don't understand what everyone is saying to you.

I don't know about getting rid of common, but it would be nice if each organization got its own language. Then you can choose to not speak common as a group and be all like the French.

Languages need to tread a fine line between being useful and being worthless. I think that as long we tells and channels for secrecy from enemies, using languages is never going to be more than a novelty of sorts. I'm usually always speaking common, unless it's with Shiri or something just to show off our languages we know now, or to annoy the Elfen.

In another realm, think it was Mume, you didn't start out with a common language. Like Dwarves spoke dwarvish... but as you were around those who spoke it, you would sloly pick up on it. You were able to check how much you knew of a language and if you weren't to adept at speaking one it would slur/mispronounce your words in it.

That's because:

1. People are stupid.
2. Languages don't get used much.
3. Languages are generally used by people trying to be cool, and then enough of them have forgotten to turn it off, so they assume you're one of those people too.

Don't be silly, I roleplayed that he could understand but no longer speak common . There was some incident or another that spawned it, and it made sense at the time, but oh well.

Being able to understand but not to speak it? Doesn't really make sense.
But hey, there's always Magic!

It was a psychological problem, anything can make sense in psychology .

actually, IRL, damage to certain parts of your brain can impede your language skills in many ways, including being able to understand but not to speak.

Its kinda frightening to see.

Yeah I know, experiments have been done where certain parts of the brain is cut our or damaged to test what affects it can have on a person (obviously back when experimenting on humans was a-o-k if the person was a criminal or whatnot) or animal. There is a term for it, which escapes me, and I have pictures of the experiemental brains in my textbook at home.

sick sick bastards

Well, not to speak at all, not just in one particular language?

It would depend how the brain was damaged, what neural pathways were damaged, etc. I was talking more of a pychological trauma, rather than neurological, anyway.