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FFVII Language
2 August 2005 07:04I caught myself contemplating something that came up in a Fanficrants post (one that I think I actually posted) about language.
The esencial point was that someone who commented said they got odd comments from reviewers because they wrote of Cloud swearing in Nibel - or in other words, the native language of the Nibelheim region.
What caught me in my latest thoughts on this is what language does Cid speak? I've seen FF7 maps, I know Rocket Town is on the same continent as Nibelheim, but I have this impression that it's not really a naturally occuring township - or if it was, it was little more than a tiny village before ShinRa decided it was a good place for the space program to be established.
So the question is, where, originally, do people believe Cid Highwind comes from? Midgar? Somewhere else? If that can be decided then the language he swears in would be far easier to pin down (because as was once said in a novel I read, people swear in their native language).
The esencial point was that someone who commented said they got odd comments from reviewers because they wrote of Cloud swearing in Nibel - or in other words, the native language of the Nibelheim region.
What caught me in my latest thoughts on this is what language does Cid speak? I've seen FF7 maps, I know Rocket Town is on the same continent as Nibelheim, but I have this impression that it's not really a naturally occuring township - or if it was, it was little more than a tiny village before ShinRa decided it was a good place for the space program to be established.
So the question is, where, originally, do people believe Cid Highwind comes from? Midgar? Somewhere else? If that can be decided then the language he swears in would be far easier to pin down (because as was once said in a novel I read, people swear in their native language).
