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Nooma K'Larr
Minmatar Cat's Cradle
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Posted - 2010.05.07 02:41:00 -
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I was wondering what my character would sound like if she could speak.
You know, Minmitar language with Sebiastor dialect. "Duct tape..Ugh...more duct tape. Me make spaceship...need chewing gum."
Would the Gallente sound french? "But of course I will pod you...oui, oui" sounding much like Pepe Le Pew-Pew
Would the Amarr be prone to Latin with frequent "thous" and "thees?" "Slave, wouldest thou be so kind as to see if my shipment of little boys has come in yet?"
Caldari: "Me love you long time..five dollar joe"
Your thoughts?
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HermanGelmet
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Posted - 2010.05.07 02:50:00 -
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You've got too much free time.
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Nicholas Barker
Black Nova Corp IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.05.07 02:57:00 -
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Minmatar, mix of Nordic/Scandinavian languages.
Caldari, Japanese/Finnish
Gallente, French/English
Amarr, pfft? I want to say latin though.
That's just basing it off of system, ship and corporation names, and presuming anything in English is just for the purpose of getting the function accross to an English speaking playerbase.
Saying french/english for gallante because i've heard the french borrow alot of english words simply because we've got so many more. It'd be based around french though.
Caldari borrow japanese words, have a japanese theme, but a lot of their system names would make more sense coming out of a finns mouth.
Amarr, catholics etc etc. ------
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Ghoest
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Posted - 2010.05.07 03:01:00 -
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Amarrians sound like JarJar Binks
Wherever you went - Here you are.
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Nooma K'Larr
Minmatar Cat's Cradle
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Posted - 2010.05.07 03:17:00 -
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Originally by: Ghoest Amarrians sound like JarJar Binks
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Culmen
Caldari Macabre Votum Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.05.07 04:20:00 -
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Originally by: Nicholas Barker Minmatar, mix of Nordic/Scandinavian languages.
Might want to point out that according to the prime fiction, the Minmatar speak Amarrian. What with the Minmatar being Amarr's biotch for generations and further more why do i even need a sig? |
Nooma K'Larr
Minmatar Cat's Cradle
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Posted - 2010.05.07 04:33:00 -
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Originally by: Culmen
Originally by: Nicholas Barker Minmatar, mix of Nordic/Scandinavian languages.
Might want to point out that according to the prime fiction, the Minmatar speak Amarrian. What with the Minmatar being Amarr's biotch for generations
...and don't think we've forgotten about it. I spit on all Amarr and their gods. Though knowing their perverse nature, they would probably enjoy it. ___________________________________________________ CSM - Bring back Medium Shader! |
Lady Spank
Amarr Trillionaire High-Rollers Suicidal Bassoon Orkesta
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Posted - 2010.05.07 04:42:00 -
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This is what the Gallente sound like
I did a helpful post. ~_~ (Retired from ship toasting. Now a professional.)
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N Ano
Caldari Onyx Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.05.07 04:53:00 -
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I always looked at Caldari Civire as the U.S Military type. ECM, Eves little genital warts. |
HIghlord Diamond
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Posted - 2010.05.07 06:31:00 -
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Originally by: Nicholas Barker
Saying french/english for gallante because i've heard the french borrow alot of english words simply because we've got so many more.
Are you telling me a joke, or do you sincerely believe what you posted there?
French from France are using a lot of English words because they admire Americans and believe it's cool and funny, and they use those English words with a truly unfitting accent that makes them almost unrecognizable. The wonderfully ironic truth is, English was drastically LACKING in vocabulary until they start using and transforming words from French to fill the gaps. Anyone who knows enough about those two languages to be considered an expert in both could instantly confirm you without a hint of doubt French is clearly ahead in terms in vocabulary and overall linguistic structure. It's overall one of the most complete, beautiful and pain in the ass to learn languages in the entire world, and English is so far behind the shocking emoticon at the beginning of this reply really illustrates what my initial facial expression was when I saw your post.
That being said, English is the dominant language on Earth, the one language most people learn as their second tongue in order to interact with everyone around the world. This is due mostly to two factors : It's easy to learn, one of the simplest languages in existence, but just evolve enough to get the job done really well (you could argue that this point alone makes English a 100 times better that French, but this doesn't validates your original post.) Second, thanks to the British nation having expanded a very large and powerful empire in the last centuries, English has been heard and later thought all over the world for a while now.
Has a final comment, I live in Quebec, which I could describe as a melting pot of many many cultures and languages, but mostly French (70%) English (20%) and Others (10%). Here in this eastern province of Canada, we've been resisting assimilation in the English Canadian population and culture for around 250 years and we got them quite ****ed off about it. Even if we do use English a lot, we've been able to maintain our French much better than France is. It's 'mostly clean, but adoption and transformation of some words was inevitable. Still, we do not adopt English words into our daily French conversations just for the heck of it and to be cool and stuff. We either use French of English depending on the listener. (We also use something called 'Joual' which is a variation of French only found within our nation which only us have a possible hope of understanding. Our poor friends from France are also completely lost by our accent. ) So if you want to hear real French, and not that teenage monstrosity France Frenches are using, either get to know one of us, or a older French dude who remembers how it was back in the days where intercontinental relations and communications were too limited by lack of technology to allow English to be heard bu the common folk on a daily basis.
With that said, je vous souhaite une bonne journTe! (I wish you a good day!)
/rant
Now for the actual main topic of the thread, I have little to say except that Gallentes rather sounds like Frenches from France using proper English (and some French expressions from time to time) with of course their typical very off accent.
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Nakila Ikkoini
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Posted - 2010.05.07 07:01:00 -
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Originally by: Lady Spank This is what the Gallente sound like
I did a helpful post.
Is this legitimate? Where did you get that from?
Not quite how I imagined it, but exciting nonetheless!
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Alarci
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Posted - 2010.05.07 07:07:00 -
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Originally by: Nicholas Barker
Saying french/english for gallante because i've heard the french borrow alot of english words simply because we've got so many more. It'd be based around french though.
I think you mean the other way round it is english that has borrowed alot of french words , If I remember correctly it wasn't till the 14 th century that the english rulling class stopped using french as their main language( french speaking nobility was a left over from the norman invasion and conquest of the 11th century)
Talking about languages in EVE, maybe the roots will be french or english or japanese but it would certainly not sound like anything we are familiar with, Language can change quickly even over a relative short period a example alot of americans today will have a hard time understanding a american living in the 1780's and that is only a mere 230 years imagine what happens with a language over several thousand years
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tla s'hpyt
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Posted - 2010.05.07 07:33:00 -
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Quote: What does your race sound like?
zoom zoom
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Lady Spank
Amarr Trillionaire High-Rollers Suicidal Bassoon Orkesta
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Posted - 2010.05.07 08:59:00 -
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Edited by: Lady Spank on 07/05/2010 09:00:27
Originally by: Nakila Ikkoini
Originally by: Lady Spank This is what the Gallente sound like
I did a helpful post.
Is this legitimate? Where did you get that from?
Not quite how I imagined it, but exciting nonetheless!
I got it from the client install, its in resSND.stuff
There's some Caldari ones too but they were all muffled so I didn't bother putting them together. Then there's other things like the NPC spawn's audio but they all sound the same. This was the only thing that jumped out as proper speech.
EDIT: because the forums are dumb. ~_~ (Retired from ship toasting. Now a professional.)
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Zeredek
Gallente The Scope
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Posted - 2010.05.07 09:51:00 -
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Originally by: Lady Spank This is what the Gallente sound like
I did a helpful post.
I lol'd
Oh and in case you wanna know how Gallente sound, check the Empyrean Age teasers and the Quantum Rise trailer. And if you wanna know how Amarrians sound, check out the Coronation of Empress Jamyl I video
Originally by: CCP Chronotis whiners
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Ibn Minion
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Posted - 2010.05.07 10:50:00 -
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Originally by: Lady Spank This is what the Gallente sound like
I did a helpful post.
This sounds more like italian than anything else. Sure as hell isn't close to french!
That being said, the Gallente sound like the mafia peeps in goodfather so they must be pirates ... every last one of them!
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Fikreta
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Posted - 2010.05.07 11:51:00 -
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Minmatar = Nordic Caldari = Japanese Gallente = French/English Amarr = Arab
Btw Italian is probably the prettiest language in the world, so mellodic and easy to learn. Feels like singing. Today, English is dominant as secondary language only because of the fact that British empire was so huge and powerful in last centuries. English is quite easy too but far from being THAT easy - fact that words has to be spelled and not pronounced exactly as they're written makes it somewhat clumsy.
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Nooma K'Larr
Minmatar Cat's Cradle
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Posted - 2010.05.07 11:55:00 -
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Originally by: Fikreta
Btw Italian is probably the prettiest language in the world, so mellodic and easy to learn. Feels like singing.
You obviously didn't grow up in an inner city Italian neighborhood. A lot of yelling going on and everyone is either named Tony or Marie. Yeah...melodic. ___________________________________________________ CSM - Bring back Medium Shader! |
Nakila Ikkoini
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Posted - 2010.05.07 12:06:00 -
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Originally by: Fikreta
Amarr = Arab
With a hint of Greek. There is Greek writing in the few cases you see symbols (such as the old armageddon model).
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Abrazzar
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Posted - 2010.05.07 12:23:00 -
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Some Amarr and Gallente stations feature voice messages outside. I think those are the only official sources for New Eden languages without the universal translator running. --------
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Asphasyia
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Posted - 2010.05.07 13:21:00 -
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Originally by: HIghlord Diamond [English...]It's easy to learn, one of the simplest languages in existence
You, sir, are an utter buffoon. Grammatically English is one of the toughest languages in the world to speak and write correctly.
Quote: French from France are using a lot of English words because they admire Americans and believe it's cool and funny
Again, bollcks. The French vocabulary is simply too narrow to accommodate many modern descriptions, it's not all American fanboy-ism. Take le week-end, le hamburger... a track suit is un training. I cba to go on, suffice to say stop living in the 1800s.
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Gneeznow
Minmatar Ship spinners inc
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Posted - 2010.05.07 13:25:00 -
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fastforward to 1:10 and thats what gneez sounds like
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Brugar
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:13:00 -
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Ving Rhames.
"I'm gonna get medieval on your ass!"
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taque
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:41:00 -
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i lol'ed.
when we are talking about English..are we talking about american english or English?
i mean, there are differences. like.. pants (which comes from pantalon, a french word) and the English variable, a Pair of trousers.
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War Kitten
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:48:00 -
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Originally by: tla s'hpyt
Quote: What does your race sound like?
zoom zoom
Clicked on thread expecting race car sounds.
Found only one Mazda.
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KaarBaak
Minmatar Squirrel Team
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:48:00 -
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VRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
=vinur allra manna
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De'Veldrin
Minmatar Special Projects Executive The Obsidian Legion
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:49:00 -
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Originally by: taque i lol'ed.
when we are talking about English..are we talking about american english or English?
i mean, there are differences. like.. pants (which comes from pantalon, a french word) and the English variable, a Pair of trousers.
^^
Which always killed me. A pair of pants. I mean honestly, do you ever see anyone wearing just one? English is a messed up language. --Vel
Originally by: Jiseinoku
Mining is the path to enlightement.
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Jerid Verges
Gallente The Society of Innovation The Last Stand
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:50:00 -
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I know people say that Japanese is the language of Caldari (And it is all too obvious they are Japanese) but I think German is also a great fit. Very rough and powerful language.
As for Gallente, clearly American English (Did you watch the Dominion trailer?)
Amarr-Russian
Russian is like hearing words being said backwards.
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Joe Starbreaker
M. Corp
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Posted - 2010.05.07 17:54:00 -
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Gallente have that San Francisco dialect -- you know, sort of a cross between the "gay accent" and generally pretentious idiot dialect.
Minmatar are kind of like the early American patriots, think Samuel Adams. I'm not sure what their accent sounds like, but they're bold, rowdy, and never apologize for their opinions.
Amarr make me think of medieval Christian knights, like the Crusaders, or Joan of Arc. The images that comes to mind are the old knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, or the characters in that Orlando Bloom movie a few years ago. Usually portrayed in the movies with a British accent.
Caldari -- I honestly have no idea. I think of them as the quiet type, less talk, more action. Except that the male Achura all speak with the cracking voice of a 14-year-old boy hitting puberty.
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