Re: OT: Quick Intro

Staving Andreas Johansson:

>I wonder to what extent this preference for having a Common Tongue is due to
>Tolkienian influence; it's certainly convenient from a pragmatic view to
>have a lingua franca represented by English (or Sinhalese or whatever
>language the thing is written in), but there's little reason it need be
>called "Common", is there?

Again, I don't have a Common Tongue on Huna (Khangathyagon for "World").
Wizards use a spell called "The Ears of an Infant" to enable them to learn
languages fast. This is particularly important as Khangathyagon no longer
exists as the native language of any culture, but it's the only language
that magical spells can be performed in. Other people just have to learn
foreign languages the hard way.

Pete Bleackley