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So I've finally finished reading the entirety of this thread, but I'm still confused by one thing that wasn't really addressed. How the hell did travelers communicate with one another? I get that "travel" as we think of it would be largely exclusive to pilgrimages made by the wealthy and you could presumably get by with some latin at any monasteries you happen to stop at, but what about every village, town, or city in between? There are tons of languages and dialects you can run across when traveling today and that's after centuries of language consolidation thanks to colonialism, mass media, centralized governments, and a number of other influences. I would imagine regional dialects would be much more common in this era and make communication incredibly difficult the further away from home you got. How did trade even work? I understand a linga franca was eventually established in the Levant, but was there some precursor to that? The silk road had been active for centuries, and I understand that the goods changed hands several times in shorter hops, as opposed to one guy driving a wagon train the entire length of it, but surely there were at least some people that made much longer trips and I'm curious how they handled that. Do you somehow hire a translator for the trip or purchase a slave local to your destination that will serve that function? Was there a group that specialized in this task and trained for it? These all seem like expensive options for the rich, what did regular people do? Just some guy that got swept up in a crusade and found himself halfway across the world, what would he do to talk to locals when the army stopped? Or did they not, instead spending all their time with their own in crusader camps? What did sailors do when they reached their destinations? Surely they didn't spend all their time aboard the ship patiently awaiting the next lading? Mondian fucked around with this message at 03:38 on May 29, 2017 |
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Hogge Wild posted:I think that it's time for a new thread. The op has left over half a year ago. And people unfortunately think that they have to read the whole thread before posting: I read the whole thread because I enjoyed it 
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