Violet:
I don't know what everyone else's reasons are....
Well... Skald.
grin
Caesius:
Would anybody object if I smote him for that?
You'd have my blessing.
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Hopefully one of the other characters knows enough about the local customs and titles to correct Zertin's mistakes.
I'd been thinking about it, like, earlier, with Saeko. In some ways it's a little weird establishing different cultures, yet still all speaking Common. I don't particularly have a language on Saeko's sheet that matches up with those things she says that are nonsense to the rest of you, but so much of her flavor would be lost if I just kept those all as English.
Honestly I don't know if I kind of figure she really does have an extra language that just isn't relevant to anything, or that Common just has some very wide-ranging `dialects' across the dimensions. I suppose I lean towards the latter. Her culture, for whatever reason, just has seriously different rules for proper nouns, but almost everything else is the same. Maybe their names are based on an old language, otherwise dead and forgotten. And since her Common is otherwise kind of built on that, it may still bleed in as some odd phrasings here and there, but for the most part... just names.
Which is why it's really cool to see someone like Arafarafarfa, who has really taken it and made Common a second language. I suppose it could be irritating if it happened too often (like, I'm glad I didn't do that with Saeko - and I had considered it when I was first writing her up - because two of us in one game would be a bit much, I think, and Arafarafarfa just does it so very well.) But since I don't see it often, I think it's awesome.
...Anyway. Bergermeister seems like a pretty localized term IRL, and clearly not her locality, so as happy as she generally seems to be to correct people, she won't be handling this one. Her best guess is that it's someone who sprays just a little bit of water on `bergers', which are maybe some sort of flower? She'd be the first to admit it's not a very good guess.