Despite the etiquette lesson, I'm astonished at the nefariousness that seems to be expressed in Kito's comments. Isn't in considered impolite to speak in a language assumed to be not understood as well?... Oh! If the listener is hidden then there would be no need to whisper or to be polite, sneaky.
I wonder if/why Toch hasn't already insisted on being able to buy the ability of understanding the languages of the other races. I don't think it would be too difficult to add a flag to the character to receive the actual message instead of the “chittering” one, for each understood language...
There should be different levels of language knowledge if this is where this thread goes. If a character knows the other language they should also be able to speak in it, if they choose, providing they have the proper anatomy to handle the vocalizations.
I doubt it would be worth the trouble of coding or the expense of obtaining, based on the very limited usage of rsay that I've seen. But it would be humorous should one be able to “hear” something to the effect of: “You hear <player> chittering away in a language you don't understand <garbled message with any player/place names or common sounding words in the message being intelligible>.” As this would be more like what I've encountered rt. I'm sure some devious minds in here could figure a way to employ it by using rsay in the presence of one that can only understand the common sounds. Example: You hear <player1> chittering <player_name> more chittering. Is player1 smitten by player_name, planning on smiting player_name, or just used a word that happened to sound like player_name? =:)~
Err... One of the devious players must have telegraphically imprinted that idea in my subconsciousness.
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It would be the most commonly heard and therefore other beings would have picked up at least some of the meaning for their utterances.