SUDDENLY, LANGUAGE LAWS!

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

IT IS HERE, FINALLY. That which many of you have been waiting for and asking for, and that which we mods have been racking our brains over and which we finally figured out! That which comprises yet another BEHEMOTH of Landel's Damned guidelines!

LANGUAGE LAWS AT LANDEL'S

We tried our best to explain everything as thoroughly as we could, and though there's a simple little version of the rules up top, we'd like it if everyone read through the giant thing at least once so that we're all on the same page and there aren't any misunderstandings.

But haven't all these rules been contradicted by just about everybody in the past? Yes, they have! But it's okay, since we're just going to do a cleansweep and make it so that, suddenly, at the very beginning of this Nightshift, Landel's magic will make everyone's language perception snap to fit those rules, and from then on, we'll be working off of those guidelines.

I know it's a lot to read, but at least it'll help us all be consistent, yeah? D:

In other news, as you can see here, Court has totally kicked my ass again we're slowly but surely getting to the finish line! (I sacrificed app-reading time today to work on the Language Laws, as I figured we should clarify all that before Nightshift.) Hang in there, those of you who haven't gotten e-mails yet! D:

Also, Leora, where are yoouuuu? MR. PUDDLES NEEDS YOU

Comments

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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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Okay, got it. Thanks. :D And yeah, I understand the need to put all the answers in one place like that. Sorry about the snitty comment. :\

Just making sure.