Re: WoW lang.

----- 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. If they have constructed anything at all, I doubt it is more than a
few stock phrases. I recall thinking what they had done was a better
solution than what was done in EQ(1), which was completely random letters in
place of what was being said in a language you didn't understand... but I
haven't played WoW in over a year, so I am a little fuzzy on it now.
There's probably some room there for a fanlang, in any case, if you're
feeling motivated.

The latest expansion to EQ1 introduced a few words used by NPCs that are
defined, to go along with a new race and city-- "vasha" for hello, "udra"
for goodbye, and... something else for "thank you" that I don't remember. I
thought it was a nice little touch, from the point of view of someone who is
just crazy about language.

*Did the word "fanlang" exist prior to this or did I just make that up? I'm
so lost in all the different -langs these days!

Mia.

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