Languages

Val De Gausse · Post by **Val De Gausse** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:26 pm

Ok this is a question about th e game. Is the language system working. I mean what does it do? Since mine says I am fluent in elf language, but none of the others, when I hear orcs say stuff is that translated to what i "Hear"? I was just curious.

Zare · Post by **Zare** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:15 am

I don't think the languages are implemented yet... if it is, I haven't seen any difference...

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:29 am

no they aren't , I don't think you can gain skill in any language no matter what.

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:04 am

You still lose it though... in large ammounts

Josefine da Vince · Post by **Josefine da Vince** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:41 pm

I'm happy that it does not work yet I couldn't even talk to a human...my skill is kind of hm black...

But I don't care I think it would be fun to not understand the other races.

Hone · Post by **Hone** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:57 pm

Haha this way you wouldnt have to listen to us halflings?

Kelzuk Teklar · Post by **Kelzuk Teklar** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:17 pm

Well all I can speak is orkish,but I DO NOT SEE other languages skill then mine.Is this normal?

Yakin · Post by **Yakin** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:46 pm

Yes that is normal

Andriel · Post by **Andriel** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:09 pm

In my opinion the learning of the other peoples' languages will be very funny. But on the other hand there will be a lot of confusion at the beginning and I think it will be very strange if you can't talk to your own husband/wife or to some of your friends...
"Oh Darling, you asked me to wash the dishes? I'm sorry but I really couldn't understand your terrible human dialect..."

Kelzuk Teklar · Post by **Kelzuk Teklar** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:08 am

Well maybe you can buy dictionaries ingame, so you can translate what he says

Avaloner · Post by **Avaloner** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:11 pm

I think the proplem of the system will be that you can still understand the "#me" so you can only do "#me says:xyz" i think there must be a solution if the system is on.

Hone · Post by **Hone** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:49 pm

Well tahts why we rolplay, i think most poeple would adhere to those rules,
i think you could start off with comm/on and your native language, you can switc/h between the languages you've /mastered to tal/k to /your races, and to/learn m/orelanuguages you ahve to buy or find a dictionary for each letter of the lagnuage, so you could buy elf A.You can understand the letters youve bought but you cant speak the language till you ahve them all.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:49 pm

I think certain races should have sub languages, like halflings have had some interaction with humans, so they should have some skill. Same with elves, they should also have some knowlage of the human language, and perhaps other languages from their vast experiences having lived so long. This could always be determined by your intelligence.

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:52 pm

Even with the risk of sounding repetative: Couldn't this simply be roleplayed?

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:31 pm

Of course people could really make up their own languages, and you would litterally have to learn them, which would be fun since it would bridge the gap between german/english players. However Caranthir, the gm's apparently planned it to be an in-game skill.

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:32 pm

Yeh.
But it doesn't mean that we'd be getting it for anytime soon..

Val De Gausse · Post by **Val De Gausse** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:39 pm

I like Caranthir Idea, Except it should be a certain language for each race. There can't be 5 different elf languages. And they should be simple and agreed upon by all the members of the race, if they participate.

Adano Eles · Post by **Adano Eles** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:45 pm

I don't think Caranthir meant to actually speak in certain languages.
It would be a little bit too hard to force all players of elves to learn a language. Roleplaying would rather mean to mark sentences as spoken in certain languages, or like that.

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:53 pm

Well, naturally Devoted players could establish 'real' languages if they'd want to. This would be good for the reasons that Grobul already stated.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:47 pm

Some players have already tried this to little or no success, however if you get an amount of people to use it, you can have a language others cannot understand and you can talk behind their back, right infront of them!

Xerake · Post by **Xerake** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:40 pm

Yep. I remember my attempt at creating the lizardman language Haslus, but no other lizardpeople besides me spoke it, because they found the grammer format too tough.

So what I do is walk up to a fellow lizardman, type #me speaks in a language with many hisses, then whisper the translation. Much easier.

Salathe · Post by **Salathe** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:45 pm

nah xerake i would use it if there were more lizards, but there arent... only one or two more lizards and they annoy me... well sts mostly fooser, sess'sth is ok, and most the other lizards ares german and they dont understand english grammar, so lizard grammar might be kidn of hard

Fooser · Post by **Fooser** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 1:13 am

Bah, I am not annoying..

And the lizard population is quality not quantity mwahaha

William Rommel · Post by **William Rommel** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:44 am

Well im going to have a human charecter so mine doesnt really matter, however it would be confusing for everyone to come up with there own langwadge. I guess someone could put out an on-line dictionary, but that would take FOREVER to do. Unless its in game im not really sure there would be a feaseable way to come up with langwages for everyone. I could however see a mix between in game and live translations where elf charecter text came up as elf and other players (besides elves) had to translate it.