Rules/Languages.mdwn

   1 In general Language specialities should be accents.  The only people
   2 without accents as specialities are:
   3
   4 * Excellent speakers of the language who have worked to remove their accent.
   5 * Very poor speakers of the language who mostly know stuff in a
   6   topical area (viz a normal specialization).
   7 * People who've learned a language entirely academically without using
   8   it on natives.  (They might have an entirely inappropriate accent
   9   specialization; but in general they'll be assumed to have an accent
  10   related to their native tongue).
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  12 Various different dialects are inter-understandable.  The table below
  13 gives modifiers for understanding:
  14
  15 |                       |Breton|Cornish|English|French|||Occitan|Low German||Welsh|
  16 |                       |      |       |       |AN|No|Ot|       |Fr|Other   |     |
  17 |----------------------:|:----:|:-----:|:-----:|::|::|::|:-----:|::|:------:|:---:|
  18 | Breton                |   0  |   -1  |       |  |  |  |       |  |        | -2  |
  19 | Cornish               |  -1  |    0  |       |  |  |  |       |  |        |     |
  20 | English               |      |       |   0   |  |  |  |       |-2|   -3   |     |
  21 | French (Anglo-Norman) |      |       |       | 0|-1|-1|  -2   |  |        |     |
  22 | French (Norman)       |      |       |       |-1| 0|-1|  -2   |  |        |     |
  23 | French (Other)        |      |       |       |-1|-1| 0|  -2   |  |        |     |
  24 | Occitan               |      |       |       |-2|-2|-2|   0   |  |        |     |
  25 | Low German (Frisian)  |      |       |  -2   |  |  |  |       | 0|   -1   |     |
  26 | Low German (Other)    |      |       |  -3   |  |  |  |       |-1|    0   |     |
  27 | Welsh                 |  -2  |       |       |  |  |  |       |  |        |  0  |
  28 [Language Penalties]