Eva Schiffer​ yes, I think being polyglot does play tricks with your head in these situations. After achieving fluency in English I started learning a (tiny) bit of German and, now equipped with the three probably most abused languages in fantasy RPG, and seeing a bit of how they relate to each other, actually prompted some interesting world design. I was living in Switzerland at the time, which was increasingly going through a period of sending horribly xenophobic electoral propaganda in the post (foreigners depicted as black crows flying over the borders to eat Swiss produce, I’m not even kidding, and I think that party went on to win the elections) so that gave it some interesting perspective on nationalism and uplanders theory. The game that came out though ditches all that and explores the concept of heimat, which is probably the best German word I learnt (after götterdämmerung and leberkäse).