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Languages Mk2
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(05-24-2016, 12:28 AM)Hammerstar Wrote:
(05-24-2016, 12:25 AM)Qvait Wrote:
(05-24-2016, 12:14 AM)Hammerstar Wrote:
(05-24-2016, 12:04 AM)Qvait Wrote: 2 people out of 7 billion. This says a lot.

You're simple minded you know that? Let's take this to countries.

Russia (24 official languages)
India (23 official languages)
Zimbabwe (16 official languages)
South Africa (11 official languages)
Serbia (7 official languages)
Indonesia (746 LANGUAGES IN TOTAL!)

Do you think that the world only speaks one or two languages? Damn it man! Cant you just accept that some of my people are really talented multilingual? CAN'T I HAVE THAT SORT OF TALENTED CHARACTERS?

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That was not what I was saying. Russia has 24 languages, but not every person speaks 24 languages. Here is an example: Jorge speaks Spanish and English and is from Spain. Abel speaks French, English, and German and lives at the French–German border. Nikolai speaks Arabic, Ukrainian, and Russian and lives in Crimea. The point is that they are part of different regions and, in Europe, there are so many languages, but not everyone speaks all of those languages.

Like I underlined before, you show me all my characters since I started RP in 2015 that could speak more than 20 languages and I'll bet you that they're like a tiny percentage of the total characters.

I would make a guess and say that 1 person in 10 counties would be able to speak so many languages. Let's maintain a sense of reality in RP.
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#22

(05-24-2016, 12:30 AM)Qvait Wrote:
(05-24-2016, 12:28 AM)Hammerstar Wrote:
(05-24-2016, 12:25 AM)Qvait Wrote:
(05-24-2016, 12:14 AM)Hammerstar Wrote:
(05-24-2016, 12:04 AM)Qvait Wrote: 2 people out of 7 billion. This says a lot.

You're simple minded you know that? Let's take this to countries.

Russia (24 official languages)
India (23 official languages)
Zimbabwe (16 official languages)
South Africa (11 official languages)
Serbia (7 official languages)
Indonesia (746 LANGUAGES IN TOTAL!)

Do you think that the world only speaks one or two languages? Damn it man! Cant you just accept that some of my people are really talented multilingual? CAN'T I HAVE THAT SORT OF TALENTED CHARACTERS?

http://bahasa-nusantara.blogspot.co.id/2...nesia.html
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-...world.html

That was not what I was saying. Russia has 24 languages, but not every person speaks 24 languages. Here is an example: Jorge speaks Spanish and English and is from Spain. Abel speaks French, English, and German and lives at the French–German border. Nikolai speaks Arabic, Ukrainian, and Russian and lives in Crimea. The point is that they are part of different regions and, in Europe, there are so many languages, but not everyone speaks all of those languages.

Like I underlined before, you show me all my characters since I started RP in 2015 that could speak more than 20 languages and I'll bet you that they're like a tiny percentage of the total characters.

I would make a guess and say that 1 person in 10 counties would be able to speak so many languages. Let's maintain a sense of reality in RP.

The 50 languages thing? Alright.

But remember the tour continent is the most populated area in the region, perhaps there's five who can achieve the feat? I don't know.

As for the 20 languages thing, it might be reasonable to say that in 10 country, ~25 people could speak it?

The rest may speak over 2-4 languages minimum.
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Honestly, why the hell are you bothering with so many languages? Sporaltryans speak Esperanto. Cool. The government does foreign affairs in English. Cool. That's all you need, and all anyone really wants of you. If you want a patchwork system of languages, sure, but none of us here are really believing that anyone could truly, fluently, and even scholarly speak more than 2 languages.


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The official language of Bruuma is Bruuman English. Foreign languages are taught only at the University: the most common choices are Spanish, Russian and Chinese.
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(05-24-2016, 07:43 AM)Cathalea Wrote: Honestly, why the hell are you bothering with so many languages? Sporaltryans speak Esperanto. Cool. The government does foreign affairs in English. Cool. That's all you need, and all anyone really wants of you. If you want a patchwork system of languages, sure, but none of us here are really believing that anyone could truly, fluently, and even scholarly speak more than 2 languages.


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You don't need to prove yourself to me. You need to prove yourself to the rest of TSPRP.


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@Cathalea and @Hammerstar: take it elsewhere, please?
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