Originally posted by TheKiwi:
How is 2320 going to handle the subject of languages? Hopefully better than 2300 did, which (IMO) did so very badly indeed. It was very easy to end up with a team that had no language in common, as it was very rare the career that gave an extra language, and (from recollection), only academics could learn new ones.
well from the little i know france
is the superpower in this setting and on the leading
edge of space travel? so the lingua franca
would probably be french and the users would
have a little of that..
just like on earth today english is really
the working lanuage of anything involving hi-
tech. so english is spoken by a good number
of people in every country...(not saying that
folks are happy with that
)...the only
other lanugage that could compare would be
mandarin which i have heard is growing in
popularity...spanish for awhile was a close 2nd
to english if i remember correctly...
so you could transfer the "global" premise
to "galactic" premise...
everyone will probably know 2 langauges
thier home and the lingua franca...sometimes
they might even know 1-2 or 3 more its that way
even on earth today...
i think with all RPG's we have to assume
a common lanugage for your "team" it
just wouldnt have much playability if not...
you know, just like all the sci-fi movies
we have today...the only one i rememeber that made
language differences very apparant/difficult was
stargate...where the locals were definitly
arabic whereas the "team" was english...
and 1 episode of SG1...maybe old time westerns?
cowboys VS indians they may have not spoken
and used sign language to note the differences...
correct me if im wrong?