Quote Originally Posted by Elim View Post
The nearly unintelligible FAKE old english that the orginal FFXIV:ARR has
A couple quibbles about this (apart from the fact that it's not old English at all, just a slightly archaic dialect of modern English). The biggest is that there's nothing fake about it. The writers of this game are quite good at what they're doing, and any time they do incorporate any archaic terms, they're always used correctly. (If they actually were fake, then I'd agree with you. There's nothing more grating than seeing archaic forms thrown around haphazardly and not even conjugated correctly, but I've never seen any trace of that in this game.)

The other is that it only very rarely comes up. Sure, you'll see it in Urianger's poetry, and some very localized bits like Ramuh's dialect, but it's pretty rare otherwise. I'd be more concerned about some of the other dialects. Jacke's dialect can in some places be hard to follow even for native English speakers, and some of the other Lominsans drop vowels in a way that would frustrate learners of the language who still have to occasionally look up words. (It's pretty hard to look something up when its spelling has been adapted to indicate the speaker's accent.)