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| Author: | Sydius [ Fri May 26, 2006 2:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Dost thou speaketh olde English? |
Hw?t! We Gardena in geardagum, ?eodcyninga, ?rym gefrunon hu ?a ??elingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing scea?ena ?reatum, monegum m?g?um, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Sy??an ?rest wear? feasceaft funden, he ??s frofre gebad weox under wolcnum, weor?myndum ?ah, o???t him ?ghwylc ?ara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. ??t w?s god cyning! ...  I have yet to meet someone who does.
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| Author: | Xuri [ Fri May 26, 2006 3:25 pm ] |
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Hmmm not far off from old norwegian/norse. ? = "th" if I remember correctly. |
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| Author: | Sydius [ Fri May 26, 2006 3:30 pm ] |
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Xuri wrote: Hmmm not far off from old norwegian/norse. ? = "th" if I remember correctly.
Yup. 
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| Author: | Sydius [ Fri May 26, 2006 3:32 pm ] |
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? is also "th"... "?e" would be "the" Along comes a printing press... ? becomes "Y" and you have morons who name their shops "Ye olde..." |
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| Author: | Sydius [ Fri May 26, 2006 4:11 pm ] |
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Ic ?encan wē sceolde leornian ald Englisc ond steortian to writan hit in ure gamens. |
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| Author: | CMS [ Sat May 27, 2006 9:09 am ] |
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Don't some folks have different languages in their games that you have to learn? I know Star Wars Online did. But, UO shards? I, personally, think it'd be cool and very immersive for each race to have their own language and, then, maybe a universal "trade" language of some kind.
-Goldrush ******* |
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| Author: | HellRazor [ Sat May 27, 2006 9:59 am ] |
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Shattered Sosaria will feature languages for each race, in addition to a "common" language which all understand. If someone speaks in a language that you don't know, all you will see is gibberish! |
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| Author: | Xuri [ Sat May 27, 2006 11:24 am ] |
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I've had that planned for my shard since 1998!  And it's actually been a feature of UOX3 for almost that long as well
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| Author: | Kronos [ Sat May 27, 2006 11:29 am ] |
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Sydius wrote: Ic ?encan wē sceolde leornian ald Englisc ond steortian to writan hit in ure gamens.
there is already too much old english in UO. apparently norse and german are very similar, ald and alt, und and ond, ich and ic |
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| Author: | Sydius [ Sat May 27, 2006 11:53 am ] |
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English came from Norse and German. :-/ Mostly/sort-of, anyway. |
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| Author: | Pandaros [ Sat May 27, 2006 12:12 pm ] |
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Kronos wrote: there is already too much old english in UO
Really? I've just seen 'H4xx0r' typings here or there...Do people even roleplay on MMORPG's? Since Runescape, my fingers and eyes aside grew bored from seeing the old "F%#k u n00b roflmao lol"
Such bad days 
By myself, I prefer norse than old english, but both are sort of interesting |
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| Author: | Xuri [ Sat May 27, 2006 12:31 pm ] |
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Olde English != Roleplaying It's not a requirement for roleplaying, and in many cases it's also not "in-character". |
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| Author: | HellRazor [ Sat May 27, 2006 12:52 pm ] |
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What? Thou hast lost an eighth! |
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| Author: | Kronos [ Sat May 27, 2006 4:29 pm ] |
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thou hast lost one too many of thine marbles |
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| Author: | RoseThorn [ Sun May 28, 2006 7:37 am ] |
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People haven't figured out yet that roleplaying is playing the role of a character, not speaking another language. 
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| Author: | Sydius [ Sun May 28, 2006 3:51 pm ] |
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Hit is an hl?hhan to don sw?, ?eah. Gif eow ?encan onbutan it, eow earun rolle-plegian an ald Englisc specan wifman. |
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| Author: | HellRazor [ Mon May 29, 2006 1:55 am ] |
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Ut-way uh-they uck-fey id-dey e-hey ust-jay ay-say? |
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| Author: | CMS [ Mon May 29, 2006 10:56 am ] |
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Sydius wrote: Hit is an hl?hhan to don sw?, ?eah. Gif eow ?encan onbutan it, eow earun rolle-plegian an ald Englisc specan wifman.
*wonders how close she got* I knew wifman means "woman", because I and some folks on a writing board were talking about the literal meaning just recently. The rest, though.... (found an online Old English dictionary) "It is to laugh with (to make flavor?), though." Maybe, "It's meant to add flavor?" as in add "spice" to the game? "(Whether?) you think (on the outside of?) it, you are role-playing an old English speaking woman." ? How'd I do?
-Goldrush ******* |
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