Rennus_Dragonsbane wrote:
This is a "feature" that was introduced about 8 years ago when languages actually took time to learn - prior to mentoring and a plethora of trainers (including the "ancient" and "forgotten" languages)  and people were using emotes to get around the language code.  Things like:  emote says to the dumb male human, "Gee!  This works great.  Why learn to speak other languages?"
As grep mentioned - there is at least one language that everyone can understand (white / god / common) and one that can't be learned (bright green / undead? / demon?)
I don't think there is a bright green one, usually that's just echoes from scripts. I do think though that that 8 year old change was an unjust but unfortunately necessary one.