Language Stats - to see the language

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 11:15 pm

In the game, it is difficult to tell whether a person is English or German without actually talking to them. This amounts to many quite a few *embarrasing* situations. It also makes a bunch of people just walk around going "german?, german?" I propose that a simple E or D be shown above a character when you press F12. E represents English, D represents German. This would be determined by the language settings a player sets during the character creation. If someone is bilingual, then they select their natural language or email Bror to set that in. This would be represented by a B. I realize this would be alot of work to set the bilinguals, but maybe in the next client there could be a drop down menu solely for this purpose.

Peggy Komoshio · Post by **Peggy Komoshio** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 9:34 am

I agree, many times I ran into people asking for things only to find that they only speak german. and all I could say is "Ich sprech kien deutche." and I'm not even sure if I spelt all the words right... It'd be a great help for those of us who only speaks english or german.

martin · Post by **martin** » Sat Apr 20, 2002 2:38 pm

"Ich spreche kein Deutsch." would be 100% correct.

martin

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:01 pm

Or you could learn, I could say "Du spreche kein Englische?"... does that mean,
"Do you speak english?"
The words don't look like english but they sound a little like them:
"Dis ist mein..."
"This is my... "
Say these about 5 times, and you'll see the similarity.
But this system could possibly work.

martin · Post by **martin** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:55 pm

*LOL*
"i don't speak german"="ich spreche kein deutsch"
"do you speak german?"="sprichst du deutsch?"
"this is my..."="das ist mein..." or "dies ist mein..."
(latter one sounds quite similar)

martin

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 4:31 am

It would prevent quite a bit of spamming during the busier hours I suppose. Who votes in favor!? :biggrin:

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Sun Jun 09, 2002 1:51 pm

We can integrate the spoken languages in the description text for the players (hair color, eyes, cloth, player languages ...).

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 4:02 am

If the description text will be available to players in the game, that would work. I was thinking you could put it beside the character's number, if that's possible to do. So maybe it could appear like

Astral (9965) E

or

Bror (??) B

E => English
D => German
B => Bilingual

Or just put both letters there for bilinguals.