I understand the reasoning behind the post, and your need to explain that reasoning at every step, but it gets so bogged down in the little details that I got really confused. It took a few re-readings for me to understand it.
Yeah, towards the end of writing the whole thing, I was like "Man, does it really need to be this complicated? I mean, it makes sense to me, but I'm the one writing it all down, so..."
But the more I'm re-reading through it, the more I'm satisfied that although it is complicated, it does pretty much cover every situation we can think of possibly occurring. (Better to answer all the questions before they're asked and having them publicly centralized in one place, right?)
So while I do agree that a simpler, possibly blanket English solution would be much more practical in a smaller community, given the diversity of characters and the big cast of the RP, it's better if we lay down some super-specific rules with a super-inclusive basis so that we have all our bases covered. Otherwise, you'd probably end up with us mods having to make a bunch of individual, subjective decisions for individual players through AIM, (something which we probably don't have time for, in all practicality) and we'd end up with a huge set of contradictory exceptions to the rule that would create unwritten standards far more complicated than those explained in our new language section. (Which is sort of the way it's been, with each player independently trying to explain the way the languages work at Landel's. It's not the players' faults by any means - but we do want to clear that up, especially before our current influx of new players.)
Also: Keman is bilingual, and he says a lot of things in his canon that aren't translated (mostly when he swears)... I can leave it in Draconic, right?
As mentioned in the Exceptions to the Rule section, YES, you may keep your fewmets! 8D Random other-language (or untranslatable) cursing within someone's main language is a-okay.
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Yeah, towards the end of writing the whole thing, I was like "Man, does it really need to be this complicated? I mean, it makes sense to me, but I'm the one writing it all down, so..."
But the more I'm re-reading through it, the more I'm satisfied that although it is complicated, it does pretty much cover every situation we can think of possibly occurring. (Better to answer all the questions before they're asked and having them publicly centralized in one place, right?)
So while I do agree that a simpler, possibly blanket English solution would be much more practical in a smaller community, given the diversity of characters and the big cast of the RP, it's better if we lay down some super-specific rules with a super-inclusive basis so that we have all our bases covered. Otherwise, you'd probably end up with us mods having to make a bunch of individual, subjective decisions for individual players through AIM, (something which we probably don't have time for, in all practicality) and we'd end up with a huge set of contradictory exceptions to the rule that would create unwritten standards far more complicated than those explained in our new language section. (Which is sort of the way it's been, with each player independently trying to explain the way the languages work at Landel's. It's not the players' faults by any means - but we do want to clear that up, especially before our current influx of new players.)
Also: Keman is bilingual, and he says a lot of things in his canon that aren't translated (mostly when he swears)... I can leave it in Draconic, right?
As mentioned in the Exceptions to the Rule section, YES, you may keep your fewmets! 8D Random other-language (or untranslatable) cursing within someone's main language is a-okay.