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Originally Posted by Googi
Using languages that nobody understands just obstructs actual RPing.
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I've got to agree here.
Although it's natural for a Drow to speak their own language, it simply will not work when thrown into a setting such as Graal. Putting aside the ridiculous thought of surface dwelling Drow for the moment, it simply isn't fun for those on the other side to have to look up each and every thing that you're saying to them. (It's nearly as obnoxious as people who try to spice up their roleplaying by using words like "oculars", or creating a five page post about sitting down on a chair.) At the very least, if you insist on both playing a Drow, and speaking their language, then provide a translation in parentheses when you speak to people. Roleplaying becomes tired fairly quickly when it becomes fun for only one side of the situation.
People will lose interest with you VERY quickly, and you'll be stuck in your own little group, exactly the opposite of what should be occurring on GK. One of the worst things you can do in a broad roleplaying setting is to bring about a sense of elitism. And with your "learn my language or get out" sort of attitude, you're pretty close.
Of course, if you refuse to communicate in Commonspeak, then it wouldn't be out of the question for the others of the land to simply consider your kind as some sort of outsiders or demons, and deem it necessary to have you all slain.