Playing a "Foreigner" Character?

[*Wiro]

I tried to get a hammer by using my flute and hitting the ground with it.
You gotta be creative when with foreigners.

[chase02]

I tried to get a hammer by using my flute and hitting the ground with it.
You gotta be creative when with foreigners.

Brilliant!

[joo]

I tried to get a hammer by using my flute and hitting the ground with it.
You gotta be creative when with foreigners.

LOL I couldn't help but think of that as some kind of obscure euphemism, seeing that you had written it...

[*Wiro]

I tried to get a hammer by using my flute and hitting the ground with it.
You gotta be creative when with foreigners.

LOL I couldn't help but think of that as some kind of obscure euphemism, seeing that you had written it...

You see a man in his twenties using his flute like a hammer in a woman in her twenties her face?

[joo]

I tried to get a hammer by using my flute and hitting the ground with it.
You gotta be creative when with foreigners.

LOL I couldn't help but think of that as some kind of obscure euphemism, seeing that you had written it...

You see a man in his twenties using his flute like a hammer in a woman in her twenties her face?

Not exactly like that. Think "self mutilation" and "gender disorientation."

[*Wiro]

I tried to get a hammer by using my flute and hitting the ground with it.
You gotta be creative when with foreigners.

LOL I couldn't help but think of that as some kind of obscure euphemism, seeing that you had written it...

You see a man in his twenties using his flute like a hammer in a woman in her twenties her face?

Not exactly like that. Think "self mutilation" and "gender disorientation."

Joo's confusing me again. This is just like when my dutch char is between all kinds of spanish people. D:

[Piscator]

Now about emoting in the language which the people in it speak is a work between the two communities and requires a fair ammount of goodwill between the two. When not possible, using english would be nice or... you know, esperanto.

Who in the world would understand Esperanto emotes? Okay, me for an instance, but not many people else. But even if people would understand it, emoting in English is still more practical because it easier to type and often shorter.

[*Wiro]

Now about emoting in the language which the people in it speak is a work between the two communities and requires a fair ammount of goodwill between the two. When not possible, using english would be nice or... you know, esperanto.

Who in the world would understand Esperanto emotes? Okay, me for an instance, but not many people else. But even if people would understand it, emoting in English is still more practical because it easier to type and often shorter.

Sori or sonri is grins or smiles or laughs. Something like that. At least, that's what I thought it was. Am I right?

Oh wait. That's spanish. I keep mixing those up, in-game too.

[Piscator]

It's "sonrie" in Español I believe. In Esperanto it would be "ridetas".

Anyway, I much rather write "winks" than "palpebrumas", "nods" than "kapklinas" and "shrugs" than "ŝultrolevas". So much shorter.

[Andu]

So if my swedish char encounter english people, he is allowed to emote in english?

[Piscator]

Of course.

We've even got a wiki page to help emoting in foreign languages.

http://www.cantr.net/mwiki/index.php/Int_emotes

[wichita]

I used to have a lot of fun with my German characters during the great Spanish migration into the territory. Then the Spaniards killed them.

My Esperanto character was a lot of fun with his Spanish girlfriend too. They could both pretty much understand each other, so he spoke his language and she spoke hers. Then a wolf ate him one day while they were gathering bananas on an uninhabited island.


Yes, emoting in English is perfectly acceptable as it is unfortunately the most widely spoken language in the world and, more importantly, in the Cantr community. Too bad we haven't been able to get the game to be discovered in Asia, or we'd get to contend with a lot more Mandarin.

[Voltenion]

You can emote in any language you know, since emotes are actions, not exactly what the charrie is saying. So it's the player writting, not the character talking. So if you meet foreigners, speaking English would be a good idea. Unless you know that foreign language.

Hint: I have a lithuan girlfriend and when something more complex needs to be said, I just have my charrie draw whatever he wants to say on the ground. Or just make a note...

Like: Do you want to live with me? *he leans down on the ground and draws a simple house, then he adds two stickmans near the house, holding hands. Above the two stickmans are their names. He looks up at her and smiles*

[sluissa]

People were talking about using translators earlier. Wouldn't using a translator for anything other than emotes be a CRB unless you were to have RP'd learning that language or have that set as your first language(yet still have some trouble understanding it)?

[Piscator]

You can use a translator just for understanding what other people are saying. Of course you wouldn't be allowed to use that knowledge, so that would be pretty poitless. So you are principally right.

May I ask in what languages you are playing?