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ParanoidObsessive posted...

As for being universal, it kind of makes sense in a setting where you're explicitly saying that "Common" exists as a language and has spread to nearly every civilized land the players will ever reach, because in turn traders would almost certainly refer to months and other units of time in conversations, which would then culturally spread over time. So while you might still have various regions referring to a given month by its original regional name, those people would also fully recognize the more common usage - and in time, the common usage would likely grow to replace the regional (which is what happened in our world).

This is something I recently learned in history that I think would actually be a really fun idea to include in DnD.
Apparently when the Spanish Conquistadors were off stomping/raiding their way through inner Mexico they would post up signs in Latin saying "surrender and live" or whatever garbage they were saying to justify murder/stealing. That's because they legitimately believed that Latin was the base universal language (being the language of God) that everyone knew and by posting their warning everyone would understand it and they just chose to not follow the warning.
Meaning a tribe of people could be sitting around, and poof, understand Latin perfectly (or at least the leaders would).

That's what I want to do with Common.
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