Quote Originally Posted by Elamys View Post
The occasionally hamfisted use of old English in this game makes it difficult to understand at times even for native speakers and also sounds bad while simultaneously stripping the dialogue of emotion because it's so rough. Urianger is a really bad offender in this department. His dialogue is absolutely unbearable to listen to at times. The cinematic where you meet the Warriors of Darkness is a really good example of his terrible dialogue. Being in faux medieval world doesn't mean we need to use medieval language. It's not like England existed in Eorzea. Do the other clients use archaic language?
You are lucky in that neither Urianger nor anybody else in the game speaks medieval English. Then you would really have trouble understanding it.

The main problem with understanding Urianger is not so much that he uses some archaic words and phrases, but that he speaks in a "poetic" language which makes it hard to understand no matter how good you are at older versions of English.