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My first encounter with non-english speaker
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:04 am
by Slowness_Incarnate
It was terrible. The end.
No really, he is killing my character, screaming in all sorts of other worldly tongues. My character is like Umm...hi..and he's all *stab*.

Oh well, anyway..she'll be dead really soon, and so ends the cultural blending!
How have other people managed to interact with other cultures?
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:26 am
by Black Canyon

That sounds awful.
My charry ran into a Polish speaking character on a largely empty island. It was generally friendly...... alot of gesturing and they exchanged a couple of items and then went on their separate ways.
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 4:13 am
by Agar
I can't wait to meet someone from a non english land. I'll be a great teacher.
2345-8:30 You say "Can you say 'SABER'?"
2345-8:30 You expertly pwn the poor sod for 87%.
2345-8:30 You say "I knew you could!"
- the evil mr rogers
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 4:14 am
by Talapus
One of my English speaking characters ran into a boat full of German speaking characters on the high seas. I docked to this big old galleon that I saw floating there. Luck was on my side, and at least one of them could speak very understandable english. I found out that they didn't have much rubber in their home island, so I traded a bit of rubber for a bunch of iron. I got some directions to the German homeland, so I think I am going to try to find my way over there sometime.
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 5:01 am
by Bran-Muffin
I actually have a character in a Polish town right now, he built himself a house and unloaded his boat. Old guy with tons of stolen resources surrounded by devils. Lucky me its a small town with only 15 people there with bone clubs.
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 11:59 am
by Dee
Black Canyon wrote::shock: That sounds awful.
My charry ran into a Polish speaking character on a largely empty island. It was generally friendly...... alot of gesturing and they exchanged a couple of items and then went on their separate ways.
I know who you are

I live with you in the same town!
Edit: No, I don't know who you are... I know the Polish character, though... I think

Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:30 pm
by wichita
Talapus wrote:One of my English speaking characters ran into a boat full of German speaking characters on the high seas. I docked to this big old galleon that I saw floating there. Luck was on my side, and at least one of them could speak very understandable english. I found out that they didn't have much rubber in their home island, so I traded a bit of rubber for a bunch of iron. I got some directions to the German homeland, so I think I am going to try to find my way over there sometime.
Yeah, there is a lot of defaulting to English on the German island right now. Pretty sad, really, if you ask me. Interaction of the language groups is probably the only really entertaining thing about the game for me at the moment.

My German female is having a great time learning Spanish in the forest. They are very nice and don't give in to English like the Dutch and Germans.
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 4:09 pm
by SekoETC
Keiran met a Russian girl once, or at least I think it was a Russian. The text encoding was Western so it came out as nonsense. I was pretty surprised. He dropped her off in the next stop.
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 3:42 am
by Blackdeath
I have a guy who says "potatoes". does that count?
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:45 pm
by abandoned
Hm, sry, We try to keep to that bit of english we learned from notes on the floor but its hard... and we don't have the chance of meeting english speaking people every day...
btw, You call 3 people "a boat full of"?^^
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:52 pm
by Icewolf
Hihi...nice to meet you ^^
generally my char is a nice guy...but he doesn't understand you...just the things from the note...
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 3:30 am
by Joshuamonkey
I have a guy who says "potatoes". does that count?
Donny El Potatoe? I have a hard time communicating with that guy...
Yaba! (if you've been to that town, you'll know what I'm talking about)
Though...there's this one character I've met, on an almost deserted town that I rule, and its in the English Server, I don't know what language he speaks. Did he join the English Server even though he speaks a different language? I translated it, and got bits and peices by combining many different language translations.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:35 am
by 15454
My king of a small town saw a boat for the first time in 30 years lol. This time they gave us stuff and they were very smart. Dropping the item and saying its name after. Then I would translate it on a note to enlisgh as they dropped the item =P
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:33 am
by Joshuamonkey
About that character I met, I just decided to slap him, lol.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:30 am
by Pirate Lass
My english character seem to have come across either an Esperanto area or a place near enough that all the notes are. Unfortunatley she's only encountered one living person and he was asleep.
For the moment she's trying to make head or tails of the notes she's found, judging by words that sound similar to those she knows.... (since I don't know the language either this is fairly easy!)