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    ScarecrowJames's Avatar
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    Pumpkin Village Hidden in the Crows
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    Raccoon Bandit
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    Cactuar
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    Astrologian Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by TouchandFeel View Post
    The game is in Modern English, just an antiquated form of it.

    Elizabethan English, which is what Shakespeare wrote in, was Modern English.
    Old English was the language of the Angles and Saxons (Anglo-Saxon) and is more Germanic than what we consider to be English today. The untranslated version of Beowulf was written in Old English.
    Middle English was the in-between version when the speech of other predominant groups in Western Europe such as the Normans began to influence the vernacular and in turn evolve the language. An example of Middle English (technically Late Middle English) is Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

    I personally have no trouble understanding what is being said and the speech of the different groups is meant to convey flavor and personality to regional dialects.
    I feel it adds to the game.
    Thats fine and dandy but I dislike it. I would like an option so Don't have to read this unfamiliar text that gives me a headache.
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    Gardthorne's Avatar
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    Vanas Genei
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    Excalibur
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    Botanist Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by ScarecrowJames View Post
    Thats fine and dandy but I dislike it. I would like an option so Don't have to read this unfamiliar text that gives me a headache.
    They're not going to write an entirely separate script for people who are bad at English. I don't know why you would think for a second they would even consider doing this.
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    C'alih Tia
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    Phoenix
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    Scholar Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Gardthorne View Post
    They're not going to write an entirely separate script for people who are bad at English. I don't know why you would think for a second they would even consider doing this.
    It's not always a matter of being bad at English. Sometimes it's a matter of being good at English and/but just loathing what they're doing with it.
    Plus they should have remembered that English client is usually the default for people without their language represented as an option. That in itself is kind of an incentive to not make things more complicated than they have to, you know =/
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