Re: WoW lang.

Mia Soderquist skrev:
 > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reilly Schlaier"
 > <schlaier@...> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006
 > 10:32 PM Subject: WoW lang.
 >
 >
 >> I started playing World of Warcraft a few weeks ago and
 >> i had been wondering if they had different lanuages but
 >> it seems they've only got this weird translator thing
 >> that randomly makes up words has anyone else played and
 >> wished for a lordaeron-ish toungue well ive lost sight
 >> of why i was writing this but it seemed interesting when
 >> i started lol
 >
 > It is, as far as I could tell when I played, randomly
 > generated, but it seems that they have at least put some
 > thought into making it look/"sound" right.

A somewhat intelligent random generator -- i.e. one with
graphotactic rules built into it -- is in a way pretty
impressive in the context; if you don't have the time or
inclination to create an entire lang(*) such a generator is
in fact the best substitute, or at least a world better than
completely random letters. Then again the next level of
sophistication would be different graphotactic rules ==
different 'languages' for different peoples.

(* Myself I'd probably end up neglecting the game for the
lang! To me conlanging is THE game. :-)
--
/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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