Uh-huh, more head canon from you it seems.
The two are their own separate languages. Now how different they are to one another is a separate debate but that is more because Blizzard doesnt exactly go into tge nitty gritty of their own “languages”.(regardless they have at least change its name, so that is already a strike again your claim it has not changed)
Did it ever mention what dialect became the common one? Usually how that ends up happening.
No, but I would imagine the Blackrock dialect was the dominant / common language used by the Old Horde since they were the dominant clan at the time. Or Shadowmoon out of respect for Ner’zhul.
Sure, but you still used that word when you didn’t have to, just like when you called Vulpera the Horde “g*psies” one time.
Saurfang naming his son after the Draenei bame for their homeworld, and then killing him. After he became a DK, should have represented a new era. Lol.
You didn’t read the sources, zerde.
I was pretty sure that no one would get the reference if I used Varisian instead… The Vulpera lean kind of heavy on that trope.
What I’ve always wanted though was one of the Gilnean wagons.
Your claim was the eredar language “never evolved”, the fact its name itself changed is proof enough it also evolved. How much or how little we dont know.
So again, your statement=irrefutable false.
Blizzard was keen in keeping up the image of Orcs who are too dumb and savage to make up a name for their world on their own. It sticks until today. If a land exists a alliance race will make a claim to it by giving it a new name first.
In Rise of the Horde each clan spoke an unique dialect of Orcish that differs so much from the dialects spoken by other clans that shamans had to communicate in a common tongue when the clans got together for Kosh’argh.
I completely forgot this. I wish it came up more but Blizzard has never bothered much to deal in linguistics. It is definitely the type of thing more suited to novels.
French is widely spoken in much of western Africa because of France’s colonial actions in west Africa. The people there didn’t welcome it (French colonization), but nonetheless because of the power imbalance French has become a common language in many west African countries.
Another example of how language can be a tool of oppression, one forced downwards from those with power into those without. Colonizers typically expected the colonized to learn their language with zero effort ever made to learn the language of the colonized unless you were a specialized expert.
Also, I read the link you provided and it’s an interesting bit of history. If this is your countries history it makes sense why you came to the conclusion you did. The article also shows Americans trying to enforce widespread adoption of English for their own imperial ambitions as well though. We have another quote.
The first and perhaps the masterstroke in the plan to use education as an instrument of colonial policy was the decision to use English as the medium of instruction. English became the wedge that separate Filipinos from their past and later was to separate educated Filipinos from the masses of their countrymen… With American textbooks, Filipinos started learning not only a new language but also a new way of life, alien to their traditions and yet a caricature of their model. This was the beginning of their education. At the same time, it was the beginning of their miseducation, for they learned no longer as Filipinos but as colonials.
Constantino, 2002
Does anyone know the timeline? I always assumed Orcs had been enslaved by Ogres for hundreds if not thousands of years. That is a lot of time to literally never learn the language.
We really don’t know, it’s one of the consequences of WoD’s many retcons to the history of Draenor and Blizzard never quite expanded on it. We only know ogres had a history of enslaving orcs until Kargath and the would be Shattered Hand Clan broke free.
The majority of orcs were never enslaved by ogres, though.
The Phillipines is also a U.S. puppet state. It is very common over there to have a favourable view of the Great Satan (U.S.). However, like was mentioned earlier, there are also revolutionaries over there, like Maoist guerillas. Hope they win.