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drseptapus

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Language
« on: December 04, 2010, 07:47:30 pm »
Just curious, where does the dwarven language in the game come from? If it's custom made for the game I think ill just have to bow down and accept the toad god right now.
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Quote from: Max White on November 30, 2010, 07:24:53 pm
I'm sure by the time toady gets too old to program, DF will have reached a stage where as it is sentient enough to program itself.
Quote from: Xerillum on November 30, 2010, 09:02:44 pm
It won't program itself, it'll be too busy taking breaks and attending parties to code.

Johnfalcon99977

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Re: Language
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2010, 07:54:38 pm »
Yeah, Its made up.
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612DwarfAvenue

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Re: Language
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2010, 10:08:51 pm »
Did he type out every single word, or did he use a program similar to DFlang to generate them?
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Re: Language
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2010, 04:19:19 am »
Toady used a program to generate all of the words, and weeded out ones that didn't fit the aesthetic. The languages are really just word lists at this point; they have no grammar. There's no timeline on fixing that.
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Cyntrox

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Re: Language
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2010, 07:07:16 am »
He DID talk about elaborating on it on a recent DF talk, though.
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