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    MistakeNot's Avatar
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    Auriana Redsteele
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    As a non-native speaker of English, I don't think the language used in FFXIV is all that complicated.
    Sure, there are some uses of dialectal language, and several cases of archaic language use, but very little of it is hard to understand. Even heavily obfuscated language like the rogues' cant is mostly understandable from context even if you have never encountered half the words before.
    I for one enjoy the fact that the language isn't dumbed down to a level where even an uneducated child could understand it, because doing that would lose so many nuances of the writing, and even lose a whole lot of world-building that is shown through how different characters speak differently.
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    Akamadoshi's Avatar
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    Evander Achilles
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    Sophia
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    Pugilist Lv 30
    Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
    I for one enjoy the fact that the language isn't dumbed down to a level where even an uneducated child could understand it, because doing that would lose so many nuances of the writing, and even lose a whole lot of world-building that is shown through how different characters speak differently.
    Me too ^^ I love that, and it wasn't the problem I mentioned. I also would hate to have it dumbed down and I would NEVER request such a thing (especially not something ridiculous as 'can you rewrite the story', ha!) that is not what is my question.

    But I suppose I cannot explain myself well
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