(09-24-2013, 03:20 AM)Diethe Wrote: [ -> ]I remember roleplaying a troll and /saying with "[Zandali] Everything's pretty fine." I think it was on this server as well, with us having that 'Retake Echo Isles' event. In the meantime, I usually curse with my characters in their natives.
Accents spring up from foreign races using [Common], mostly. It's understandable but yeah, overdoing it sounds stupid. If you have such a bad accent, better use your native language instead.
With that said, I dunno. Is [Common] universal or do we have Common for the Alliance and Orcish for the Horde? I mean even way back before Warcraft 2 and 3 everyone was using Common.
Well the Azeroth Common tongue was used in the EK for [X] amount of years, being the native language of the Humans. Other races, like dwarves, gnomes, goblins, and High Elves picked it up as a universal trading language.
I believe the Common for Draenor was just Orcish. In fact, I would imagine that most, if not all, Draenei, Ogres, Arakkoa, and other assorted Outland Races know Orcish as it is the most common language, or was, on Draenor. Then when Warcraft 1 hit, I assume the Orcs learned Common, at least a few, in order to interrogate prisoners, read human maps, and other assorted business in order to fully conquer the world by the time Warcraft 2 started.
Then one might -also- argue that Darnassian was a somewhat common language in Kalimdor, at least for the native races there (Furbolg, Tauren, Giants, maybe centaur and quillboar, and any intelligent Owlbeasts/Moonkin). It just makes sense as the Night Elves were as widespread along Kalimdor as the Humans were along the EK.
Of course, due to the populations using it, one might argue Zandali (Troll) to be a common language too. However, due to the way it was formed, you'd need a set of tusks in your mouth to be understood. Basically you'd come off like a troll speaking Common, ya know?
In Essence, Orcish is just as common as Common is, as well as Darnassian and Zandali. I would assume, though, that Common would become the most used on Azeroth because Humans reign control over most of the world through Diplomacy and that the Orcs would know it for the same reasons as they would have learned it in Warcraft 1-2-3.