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Kitsune
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|  Subject: Orcish translator?  Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:31 pm | |
| | I was reading through the archives recently and I've come to the part where there is an abundance of Orcish being spoken. I was wondering, is this language translatable? Is it just an alphabet switch from English (i.e. a=p and t=o so "at" would translate to "po") or is it something different altogether? I just want to know what they're saying. It's so frustrating missing parts of the conversation. |
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Rody
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:55 pm | |
| I'll second that. While I don't know whether there was a predetermined Orcish language, obviously they're supposed to be saying specific things. It'd be nifty to have translations. Particularly, it'd be nifty to have a "translation tool", where you could go into the archives, pull up a comic that had Orcish in it, click a button, and the Orcish would swap over to English.
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Sunny
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:39 pm | |
| | Kitsune wrote: | | I was reading through the archives recently and I've come to the part where there is an abundance of Orcish being spoken. I was wondering, is this language translatable? Is it just an alphabet switch from English (i.e. a=p and t=o so "at" would translate to "po") or is it something different altogether? I just want to know what they're saying. It's so frustrating missing parts of the conversation. |
Orcish isn't just an alphabet swap. Actually, I have no idea what it is, but *shrugs*
http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2006-07-27
Iakka takka translates to "Happy dance", apparently, so yeah. Maybe Mookie just made up random words and strung them together as he went so that they sounded good *shrugs* |
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Phoenix
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:43 pm | |
| Orcish is not at all related to English. Mookie just uses words that sound Orcish in order to make them speak it.
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Obsidian_Stray
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:57 am | |
| He should make them speak Swedish.
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Rody
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:27 am | |
| Hurdey gurdey burgle bork bork bork!
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Kitsune
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:34 pm | |
| | Rody wrote: | | Hurdey gurdey burgle bork bork bork! |
I second that motion. |
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Maulkin
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Joined : 26 Mar 2007
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:42 pm | |
| | Kitsune wrote: | | Rody wrote: | | Hurdey gurdey burgle bork bork bork! |
I second that motion. |
Well then, we'll put it up to a vote; all in favor of making Jan 10 "Gay Buttsmecks Day" on the forum, say "Aye"!
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Jack A T
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:43 pm | |
| All in favor of me blasting Maulkin with a cannon because of that idea, say "Ear"!
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Maulkin
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:45 pm | |
| Hey, I'm not the one who proposed it!
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Jack A T
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:47 pm | |
| You are the one who asked everyone to say eye.
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Rody
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:47 pm | |
| Actually, it's Aye.
Bork!
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Kitsune
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:19 am | |
| Aye!!!  |
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Faceless
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:33 pm | |
| Nay. 
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| | Subject: Re: Orcish translator? Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:06 pm | |
| | Naye. |
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