Re: Wildspace common

Greetings all,

In our last episode, gantr@???.edu said:
>On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Harry Bandoian wrote:
>> I say the wildspace common should be a variation aof the elven language 
>> since they are one of the oldest of the spelljamming races! Then again I 
>> do have a elven PC
>
>Actually, wildspace common could be a distant relation of the language of
>the Juna, with loan words from hundreds of other languages.  Admittedly,
>it wouldn't be the Juna language any more (any more than English is the
>same language as Proto-Aryan) because of linguistic drift, but that seems
>the most likely to me.
>
>There would probablybe heavy Reigar influences in wildspace common, along
>with heavy Elven influences.  The Illithid wouldn't have had much
>influence on the language, because they are a purely telepathic race (I
>sincerely doubt they have a "language" of their own;  more of a series of
>telepathic impressions that they all understand).
[snip]

	Those are cool ideas about language, especially the groundling
connection. :)

	In my universe, space travel goes in stages, with long lulls
in trade and communication between "ages".  This is why I didn't include
any reigar--and especially Juna--influences in the langauge.  The elves
were simply the first major force in space in the "modern age".  Before
them, there hadn't been major travel around the stars for several millenia.
And so, a "vulgar" form of elven became the dominant "space common".
Dwarves were the first "technological" race in space, so technical
works are still written in Dwarven (kinda like how Italian was used
for even non-Italian operas, IIRC).  Strange accents between distant
areas and isolated outposts make communication slow, but still possible.

	Anyway, that's the way I try to keep it in my campaign. :)

-Static

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