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what language is evrything in

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:59 pm
by Paul
sometimes itz in english, other times, it looks like giberish

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:04 pm
by The Returner
Sometimes its in German.....since its primarily a german game... :wink:

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:04 pm
by Viola Thistle
The other language is German. We English-speaking players are very fortunate that the game designers and administrators have worked so very hard at translating everything to English, otherwise the majority of us would have missed becoming part of Illarion. :D

Viola

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:19 pm
by Sir Giandor
It doesn´t matter for english speaking people, cause most of us here are speaking english.
A little bit strange. Is there a native english(wo)man who is speaking a little bit german?

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:31 pm
by Fieps
Mishrack?

I don´t think that this is strange, because we can´t compare both cases.
We learn english in school, native English Speaker in general not.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:34 pm
by Keikan Hiru
Paul, belive me sometimes your motherlanguage English appears to be more "gribberish" than any other language in the word.

It all depends on the writer.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:37 pm
by The Returner
hehe....as much as I like paul......hiru sure told him.



to add to that, its not nice to call any langauge "Jibberish".......you might insult someone.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 7:16 pm
by Nartak Ironmaster
I think Paul's writing is "giberish" because he don't write english very well... :P

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 7:59 pm
by Viola Thistle
Sir Giandor,

Heute lerne ich den deutsch, aber ich nicht gewandt. Ich kann es immerhin versuchen. Fieps ist richt. Kaum lernen wie die Sprache im Schule. Englisch ist schwer fur viele Amerikans. :wink:

Viola ~ happy that she can speak a little, albeit poor, German.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 8:03 pm
by Grant Herion
Hehe paul called German gibberish... Even I knew it was german when I first saw it...

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 9:07 pm
by Belegi
To all those poor germans (like me) that don´t know the word gibberish, gibberish is Kauderwelsch in deutsch.

After reading this small discussion, maybe it would be quiet suitable to create a little dictionary of common "Illarion-words", like library, forge, anvil, demon ... so that english speaking people would get a general idea what´s a ingame conversation in german is all about.

I know that many english speaking people are quiet upset about the fact that some people are speaking only german ingame, but remember, if adressed in a nice way, most german players can speak english as well. Remember, it´s not our mother tongue. But sometimes, when I´m reading posts of our american fellow players, I... erm... maybe I should stop writing.

Yours Belegi

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 10:44 pm
by Aradhul
The only word in german that I know is gruese ((sorry if I spelt it wrong)) I think it means greetings or hello not really sure which

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 11:21 pm
by Fedaykin
Grüsse means Greetings.

you have spelt it right. The most English keyboards didn't have the 'Ü' key

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:00 am
by paul laffing
Achtung!
Muten is an american student of german, or so he says...

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:24 pm
by Paul
thatz not what i meant buy giberish!!!!!!!!!!!!

its half english, and half german :Illarion.org Foorooomin- now wtf is that

and btw english is not my mother tounge

and im sorry if i offened anyone, i did not call german giberish, but rather the mixture of the languages

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:27 pm
by Paul
oh and by the way, i think it would REALLY help if you could kinda make a tranlation page for what most of the things here mean, i mean its kinda hard to post if u dont know which button to press (now i know)

can some plz tell me what the buttons on the top right mean

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:38 pm
by Paul
i dont mean to spam, but, what languages are we alowed to speak in game?....is russian alowed?

by the way, skolko to ruskih igraut v etu igru, budet horosho skemta pogovorit v igre :D

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:39 pm
by Fieps
What for a language has your Board yet?

You understand English, right? So why don´t you change the language in your "Profil"?

Ingame are all languages allowed, but i think you can imagine, that it give not many persons, which will understand for example russian.
But you can speak it ;-)

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:42 pm
by Grant Herion
Grusse means greetings in german? I thought Grusse was something else.. I should learn some basic german...

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:00 pm
by Fieps
Grant you must write it Gruesse.

But it give many ways to write that word, and its always the same

Grüsse
Grüße
Gruesse
Grueße

always the same, because ss = ß and , ue = ü, but a english keyboard doesn´t have ß and ü, or?

But yes, Gruesse means greetings.

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:22 pm
by Paul
thnx for ur help ppl, and once again, i apologize if i offended anyone, i did not mean to

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:33 pm
by Gro'bul
Heres what I did so I could do business with german players: write down all the items you want to talk about in english, then go to a translator and write the translations next to them. Then just plug them in. Might sound primitive to a native german, but they will probobly understand what you mean to say.

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:50 pm
by Fieps
I see here no problem Grobul, and it´s not primitive, a few germans done the same with english items.

And if you then know the words Verkaufe= sell, Kaufe = Buy, you can good scream for example Kaufe Eisen! ( buy iron ) *g*

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:45 pm
by Rion Kerman
Ja govou po russki ^^
Und ich kann Deutsch
And English
And a bit Frensch, oui oui, je sais, france n´est pas trés bon ^^

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:54 pm
by Paul
lol

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:48 pm
by Gro'bul
you really should refrain from using "l337 h4xor D@wg" talk. wtf,lol,lmao,rofl,ect.

Ich bin shinken.
Je suis j'hambon.
I am ham.
sil-tu plait. :wink:

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:58 am
by paul laffing
Gro'bul wrote:"l337 h4xor D@wg"
What does that mean?

Czesc! Czy mowisc po polsku?

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:40 am
by Gro'bul
its what I call nu-age ebonics.

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:31 am
by Vindigan
Its what happens when you spend too long in a chat room! i think you can catch it as well so stay away from them! I found out what a lot of it means when i first got the internet and i had AOL :cry: l337 = elite h4xor = hacker D@wg = dawg maybe?