How did people who speak different languages communicate in the past if language barrier is a thing even now?
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Trade language was a common thing everywhere there was sea trade or large island groups. Pidgin, “Lingua franca”, chinook,russenorsk etc are all examples of trade languages.
Simplify the grammar (“Good pork, 5 dolla”), steal words liberally from each other, make sure that you can say basic sentences like “I need food and water”, “I’m willing to trade [stuff I think you want] for [stuff I want]”, “Your goods are substandard crap”, “How do I find [place], “I’m looking for [sex/drugs/rock’n’roll] and you’ve got yourself a basic trade language.
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