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Dictionary???
« on: January 09, 2013, 11:36:22 pm »
Has anyone put up a Dwarf-to-English dictionary yet, so we don't have to search the raws for it?
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2013, 11:49:19 pm »
...the raws do really well at it already?
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2013, 12:01:35 am »
Someone should copy it to the wiki, that's all.
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Quote from: Andreus on June 09, 2011, 02:07:07 pm
I have no idea where anything is. I have no idea what anything does. This is not merely a madhouse designed by a madman, but a madhouse designed by many madmen, each with an intense hatred for the previous madman's unique flavour of madness.

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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2013, 09:12:58 am »
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Quote from: Shadowlord on July 04, 2012, 12:47:37 am
or maybe Valve goes out of business because they invested too heavily in something which then fails - like, say, human civilization.
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Alternatively, initiate strife to refuse additional baked goods, and then abscond.

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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2013, 03:00:02 pm »
Is that DF Dwarfish?
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Quote from: Andreus on June 09, 2011, 02:07:07 pm
I have no idea where anything is. I have no idea what anything does. This is not merely a madhouse designed by a madman, but a madhouse designed by many madmen, each with an intense hatred for the previous madman's unique flavour of madness.

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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2013, 03:32:53 pm »
Yep, I bookmarked the page from a thread like this one a while back. Some bay12er made it at some point. It only translates stuff from english into DF dwarfish though, not the other way around.
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Quote from: Shadowlord on July 04, 2012, 12:47:37 am
or maybe Valve goes out of business because they invested too heavily in something which then fails - like, say, human civilization.
Quote from: GlyphGryph on March 16, 2013, 03:10:25 pm
Alternatively, initiate strife to refuse additional baked goods, and then abscond.

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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2013, 03:37:50 pm »
. . . okay, how does Dwarfish not have plurals?
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2013, 03:42:36 pm »
By not having plurals.
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2013, 03:44:34 pm »
But plurals are a basic part of language!
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Quote from: Andreus on June 09, 2011, 02:07:07 pm
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2013, 03:45:27 pm »
Not for dwarves.
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2013, 05:46:59 pm »
Quote from: GuesssWho on January 10, 2013, 03:44:34 pm
But plurals are a basic part of language!

Explain Japanese?

Also, you may notice in-game that there is no conjugation, no case, no pronouns; it's extremely barebones at the moment.
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2013, 05:50:18 pm »
Every lingual principle has an exception, language is weird that way.

It doesn't have 'the' or 'of' yet, either.
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Quote from: Andreus on June 09, 2011, 02:07:07 pm
I have no idea where anything is. I have no idea what anything does. This is not merely a madhouse designed by a madman, but a madhouse designed by many madmen, each with an intense hatred for the previous madman's unique flavour of madness.

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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2013, 06:16:55 pm »
Yeah, no prepositions, conjunctions, nothing but the most basic forms of nouns, adjectives and verbs.
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« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2013, 12:39:10 am »
Quote from: GuesssWho on January 10, 2013, 03:44:34 pm
But plurals are a basic part of language!
It's funny how much of language you take for granted before you learn a second language.  Yes, some real languages have no plurals.  Some languages have no gender for words we (English speakers) think of as being inherently gender-specific.  Other languages give gender to almost everything.
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Re: Dictionary???
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2013, 12:59:14 am »
Isn't there at least one language where the shape of an object modifies the verb or something?
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Quote from: Andreus on June 09, 2011, 02:07:07 pm
I have no idea where anything is. I have no idea what anything does. This is not merely a madhouse designed by a madman, but a madhouse designed by many madmen, each with an intense hatred for the previous madman's unique flavour of madness.
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