From fc0183f9b994dd3eb8ef4cae685d754543e7bc3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senji Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 00:46:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] First up of table for language understanding. Many languages to go! --- Rules/Languages.mdwn | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Rules/Languages.mdwn diff --git a/Rules/Languages.mdwn b/Rules/Languages.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..476690ed --- /dev/null +++ b/Rules/Languages.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +In general Language specialities should be accents. The only people +without accents as specialities are: + +* Excellent speakers of the language who have worked to remove their accent. +* Very poor speakers of the language who mostly know stuff in a + topical area (viz a normal specialization). +* People who've learned a language entirely academically without using + it on natives. (They might have an entirely inappropriate accent + specialization; but in general they'll be assumed to have an accent + related to their native tongue). + +Various different dialects are inter-understandable. The table below +gives modifiers for understanding: + +| |Breton|Cornish|English|French|||Occitan|Low German||Welsh| +| | | | |AN|No|Ot| |Fr|Other | | +|----------------------:|:----:|:-----:|:-----:|::|::|::|:-----:|::|:------:|:---:| +| Breton | 0 | -1 | | | | | | | | -2 | +| Cornish | -1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | +| English | | | 0 | | | | |-2| -3 | | +| French (Anglo-Norman) | | | | 0|-1|-1| -2 | | | | +| French (Norman) | | | |-1| 0|-1| -2 | | | | +| French (Other) | | | |-1|-1| 0| -2 | | | | +| Occitan | | | |-2|-2|-2| 0 | | | | +| Low German (Frisian) | | | -2 | | | | | 0| -1 | | +| Low German (Other) | | | -3 | | | | |-1| 0 | | +| Welsh | -2 | | | | | | | | | 0 | +[Language Penalties] -- 2.30.2