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[sigmaleph]

fantasy pet peeve: when your characters live in an entirely different universe with an entirely different culture speaking an entirely different language, yet somehow puns, wordplay, and ambiguity all work out exactly the same as in English. breaks my immersion every time.

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[discoursedrome]

Yeah, this is more or less my position on it. As long as it could plausibly be a proxy for something that wouldn't translate in the fantasy language people actually use, I think it's OK.

Anecdote: I used to play Werewolf, where wolves had their own language based mainly on body language, and I spent way too much time talking/thinking about how it made sense to talk in that language, like whether wolves would have a way of saying "hat" or whether they'd come up with some sort of indirect compound to express the same idea