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Nation specific languages

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May 17, 2004 Sheean link
This is more a suggestion to the rest of the users/players/testers/roleplayers/griefers/etc:

How's about creating nation specific or hell maybe even guild specific languages?
Including grammar, writing system and of course lot's of words (maybe even including completely new concepts)

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This is basically how it could work:

A language would get a "supervisor", a thread is created where people can post suggestions for words, grammar etc. the "supervisor" then decides wether or not these words/grammar-rules will be added to the language.

These words/grammar-rules will then be added to all the "language file" and updated whenever something new is added:

Language -> English | Vocabulary-file: this is an spreadsheet (excel and calc) file, with all the words sorted by alphabet.
English -> Language | Vocabulary-file: this is an spreadsheet (excel and calc) file, with all the words sorted by alphabet.
Grammar-file: an word/writer document with all the grammar rules.

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Languages:

Could be anything, it could be a simple language with childish grammar called Vendetish; or it could be an extremely complicated language with lot's of rules and exceptions to rules, and exceptions to exceptions (...) called English-2.

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Writing system:

Once a language is "done" a writing system could be made, basically the first one to scan his/her invention and send it in wins ;)
If you aren't original you could use whatever writing system currently exists.
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If you want I could supervise with any language you want; however if I supervise Serco, I don't want to supervise Itani and visa-versa; those 2 languages should not be look-a-likes (duh).

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Legal crap:

I don't guarantee your language will come into Vendetta, infact I highly doubt it myself. However you are free (to some extent) to chant it over global chat, as long as you keep it civilised.
May 17, 2004 Spellcast link
wayyyyyy too much work
May 17, 2004 electric27 link
Serco's official language is English. You guys have fun making up yer own crap, we're settled.
May 17, 2004 UncleDave link
NT can have *snigger* French.
May 17, 2004 finch link
dont you be dissin the french :)
/me is 50% french
May 17, 2004 roguelazer link
Itani claims C, C++, C#, Java, Pascal, PHP, JavaScript, Basic (and all derivatives), Fortran, Haskell and Whitespace.
May 17, 2004 ctishman link
Yeah, but it means diddly-crap if Serco claim Binary (which we do)
May 17, 2004 panic link
Itani gets hex, though.
May 17, 2004 Pyroman_Ace link
Serco: Binary, English, basic
NT:
Itani: Everything that relies on Serco Binary....in other words, Itani have no language

NT are too lazy apparently to post their desired language thus probably the reason they have no language of their own, too lazy to come up with one :P

Kidding, kinda, maybe, not really, no
May 18, 2004 The Kid link
NT will take all other languages that have not been claimed so far (human or computer).
That would include American-English but not the real English :P
May 18, 2004 paedric link
NT can have COBALT.
May 18, 2004 Magus link
We speak through telepathy. We have no use for your puny human languages.
May 18, 2004 Sheean link
Hmm, should I start creating "the Itani language" anyway? :P
May 18, 2004 danielky link
We have Galactic Trade Standard, just you...can't...write...it....... Hmm, how about we don't do anything of the sort with new languages.
May 18, 2004 roguelazer link
We can too write in it. Somebody made a ttf font out of it, which I now use for window titles (you'd be surprised how quickly you start to recognize which GTS symbols represent "Firefox"
May 18, 2004 Katarn link
Itani adsumit latinum.
May 19, 2004 Sheean link
/me points to: http://www.dse.nl/~sheean/vendetta/GTS.ttf

There's also one that looks like it's written (you know, with a hand), but I'm not quite sure where you can get that one.
May 19, 2004 red cactus link
HAH! NT gets bash! Eat that.
May 19, 2004 Celkan link
The url for the calligraphic GTS font is in the the waylonics irc channel.

irc.slashnet.org #vendetta-waylonics
May 19, 2004 RJT link
NT will take decimal (hahah) and HTTP, XML, Spanish, Dutch, German, French, algebraic (yes it is actually a language), Lawyerese, Docterese, Klingon, Romulan, Andorian, Vulcan,Elvish, and GTS . HAH, take THAT!!
Red cactus: bash is actually nice and easy to use.