Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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When gaming and linguistics collide...

... the results can be colorful. This article talks about some challenges arising in World of Warcraft due to server mixes that combine players using different languages (and alphabets).
Tags: gaming, linguistics
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ysabetwordsmith

I Agree

ysabetwordsmith

October 17 2008, 21:28:05 UTC 12 years ago

It would be cool, and that really is the kind of situation in which a pidgin is likely to develop: bunches of people thrown together for a common cause, who don't speak the same language.

I don't think Klingon would make an ideal universal language, but it is fun to study. There are even a few households where it's the home language in Europe (parents speaking different languages, and that's the one they share) which leads to a few children speaking it as their native language!
aeazel

aeazel

October 17 2008, 21:41:17 UTC 12 years ago

This was something I quite often saw in Guild Wars. Sure, they had the language instances, but in the beginning one could easily find people going to other instances just to get a larger player population.