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I am doing some german translations at the moment, and thought it may be a good idea to give the races different dialects as we have plenty of them here, and they can easily be used in written language. So here are my proposals:

- Human: common german
- Ork: "ghetto slang"
- Ukar: bavarian dialect
- Tritan: "Platt" (north-germany dialect, a bit tending to dutch)
- Raijin: elevated german language, the only ones using the official "Sie" instead of the common "Du" for "you"
- Demon: Berlin slang

Of course the intensity of using dialect may vary depending on the NPC.
What do you think about it? Any comments?

- crocs, Mick

Micksha wrote:I am doing some german translations at the moment, and thought it may be a good idea to give the races different dialects as we have plenty of them here, and they can easily be used in written language. So here are my proposals:

- Human: common german
- Ork: "ghetto slang"
- Ukar: bavarian dialect
- Tritan: "Platt" (north-germany dialect, a bit tending to dutch)
- Raijin: elevated german language, the only ones using the official "Sie" instead of the common "Du" for "you"
- Demon: Berlin slang

Of course the intensity of using dialect may vary depending on the NPC.
What do you think about it? Any comments?

- crocs, Mick

I'd leave the ghetto slang out for political correctness. At least in English, we're probably gonna avoid that. Raijin is not going to be a race - they will be a skin of Elves.

Anyway good idea. Makes it all more interesting.

Micksha wrote:I am doing some german translations at the moment, and thought it may be a good idea to give the races different dialects as we have plenty of them here, and they can easily be used in written language. So here are my proposals:

- Human: common german
- Ork: "ghetto slang"
- Ukar: bavarian dialect
- Tritan: "Platt" (north-germany dialect, a bit tending to dutch)
- Raijin: elevated german language, the only ones using the official "Sie" instead of the common "Du" for "you"
- Demon: Berlin slang

Of course the intensity of using dialect may vary depending on the NPC.
What do you think about it? Any comments?

- crocs, Mick

I think that this is a good idea, I leave it up to wildx to decide if it fits his current race plan, although, keep in mind that tritan already use an own-made slang with yeye and such.

Reid wrote:

Micksha wrote:I am doing some german translations at the moment, and thought it may be a good idea to give the races different dialects as we have plenty of them here, and they can easily be used in written language. So here are my proposals:

- Human: common german
- Ork: "ghetto slang"
- Ukar: bavarian dialect
- Tritan: "Platt" (north-germany dialect, a bit tending to dutch)
- Raijin: elevated german language, the only ones using the official "Sie" instead of the common "Du" for "you"
- Demon: Berlin slang

Of course the intensity of using dialect may vary depending on the NPC.
What do you think about it? Any comments?

- crocs, Mick

I think that this is a good idea, I leave it up to wildx to decide if it fits his current race plan, although, keep in mind that tritan already use an own-made slang with yeye and such.

Yes, keep in mind the Tritan's speech pattern as well. I agree with the idea in general though, so go ahead!

This would mean lots of changes on already existing scripts. Are we sure we want to edit these entries and thus, force the translators to re-translate these sentences?

Alige wrote:This would mean lots of changes on already existing scripts. Are we sure we want to edit these entries and thus, force the translators to re-translate these sentences?

This is only for the german translation.