What's your Minecraft Username?: 2500
What's the title of your suggestion?: mutual intelligibility
What's your suggestion?:
from wikipedia:
"In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort."
basically, two or more languages can be similar enough to an extent that communication between them is possible. and i feel like something like this deserves a place in SRP, where many people often RP as characters with foreign backgrounds. in my opinion it makes no sense how two characters from (for example) two former-yugoslav countries cannot communicate in their native tongue.
here is a list of languages which COULD be "grouped" together, from the list of available languages in the application form.
some honourable mentions which may be considered?
some of these are BIG questionmarks, and i didn't consider for asymmetry. take these with a grain of salt.
in my mind there are two ways this can be implemented
personally i don't mind how it is done.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
What's the title of your suggestion?: mutual intelligibility
What's your suggestion?:
from wikipedia:
"In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort."
basically, two or more languages can be similar enough to an extent that communication between them is possible. and i feel like something like this deserves a place in SRP, where many people often RP as characters with foreign backgrounds. in my opinion it makes no sense how two characters from (for example) two former-yugoslav countries cannot communicate in their native tongue.
here is a list of languages which COULD be "grouped" together, from the list of available languages in the application form.
- Swedish/Norwegian/Danish
- Czech/Slovak(ian)
- Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
- Dutch/Afrikaans
- Italian/Corsican
- Macedonian/Bulgarian
- Hindi/Urdu (and Bhojpuri/Awadhi/Haryanvi which are dialects of Hindi, but seperate languages on SRP)
- Persian/Tajik
- Malaysian/Indonesian
- Zulu/Xhosa
some honourable mentions which may be considered?
- Spanish/Portuguese
- Polish/Czech
- + other filler Indian languages nobody has authorisation for but they still exist..
some of these are BIG questionmarks, and i didn't consider for asymmetry. take these with a grain of salt.
in my mind there are two ways this can be implemented
- simply group languages together, done.
- balancing cross-communication using obfuscation / slurred speech
- could account for asymmetry here
- assume your character knows norwegian or something for this example screenshot:
personally i don't mind how it is done.
How will this benefit the server and community?:
- allows users to create more diverse character families
- grants some use to less commonly applied for or used languages
- it is more realistic
