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Subject: Re: booksesssss... preciousssss

Author:
Grunt N. Point

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Date Posted: 20:27:36 02/28/03 Fri
In reply to: bubble 's message, "booksesssss... preciousssss" on 13:40:19 02/28/03 Fri

>I tried to make a librarian once, but I realized it
>was a futile effort until more people wrote books,
>journals, stories. Heck, even archiving tavern board
>msgs would be pretty cool. There is also a major
>language barrier with writing and reading. It is just
>flat impossible to do either ("you can't do that" type
>msg) if you don't have 100% in that particular
>language, and I've never had a linguist character
>that made it to 100% - although I've tried.
>
>I would be eternally gratified to discover one day
>that reading a "foreign" language had been tied into
>the speaking code, and you understood only as much as
>you could have understood it spoken. I think writing
>is okay as it is.
>
>Of course, I haven't tried to do any of this in ages,
>so if it's already changed, please disregard =)
>
>bbl

Yes, that would be something I'd like to see... or make reading/writing a skill... based on the skill level is how it'll look... and of course, a person would have to have a good grasp on a language before they can write... but who knows...

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