Who's good with the mod Lore?

[Longcat]

I wish to make a completely awesome dialect for Longcat to speak in through the abuse and hacking of this mod. So, anyone know how to use it? And hopefully add in a dialect, not a language in the mod.

[Longcat]

Alright, I seem to have gotten the hang of the dialects system of it.

Problem is that I don't know how to make it work in other channels besides /say, /party, /raid, /guild, and /yell.

Any ideas of how to make it work in other channels, like the horde's /RP channel?

[Fallacy]

I've been using it extensively with Fallacy, as he speaks Nerubian often, but I haven't found a way to convert it to the channels. I think there's complications with everyone's personal chat settings so that it is unable to be used in them.

[Rhowen-Prea]

I'll ask a paladin named Brardith. He's always accidentally talking in Demonic, though I can't remember if it's ever in ooc channels or not.

[Prudynce]

I took lore off.

I wasn't able to speak in Tarahue (sp) anymore when I had it loaded and being a tauren.. well...that was unacceptable.

[Longcat]

I'm just not too much about speaking in Troll on my troll, he wants everyone to be able to hear what's he jabbering about fish each time.

[Darkblade]

I guess it could be handy for dialects and such, but I still firmly believe that if players were meant to speak demonic, well, they'd be able to with the game mechanics.

[Rhowen-Prea]

See, the problem is, that sometimes with back-story, it just doesn't make any sense for characters to -not- be able to understand a language. Rhowen, as a result of her history, is fluent in Troll. Now why, suddenly, can't she understand it? Or should I just not have written the story I did for her, and limited the character?

*Shrugs* I agree and disagree, so henceforth stay out of it.

[Darkblade]

Blizzard just needs to enact ways to learn languages. I assume they will in the future sometime, but they need to do it now. ;)

[Longcat]

I just want to be able to type in a custom dialect for RP purposes.

[Yichimet]

As do I, but to do so I need access to the Taurahe vocabulary so I can make a Grimtotem variant. And I can't find the Taurahe vocabulary anywhere! Anybody know where this might be catalogued?

[Longcat]

The vocabulary's more like a bunch of random words that are organized by how long or what the first word was typed with. So making a complete language would be hard...

And yes, Bur means more than just Lol, it means a lot of random 3 letter words.

[Yichimet]

Oh, yeah, I know--when you look through the Dialects.lua file for Lore, you can see how the in-game languages are organized, I think. Although honestly I'm not sure. What I meant was that I needed somewhere that they catalogued the word assignments for those random phrases.

Actually, come to think of it, isn't Ishnu Por Ah "For the Earthmother?" Or "Praise the Earthmother?" That doesn't correspond to the number of letters in each word of the phrase. I wonder if specific phrases have specific word assignments.

[Darkblade]

And now we see the inherint flaw in Blizzard's language design. These aren't separate languages, they are just random words that "sound" like the language in question. And honestly, noone should expect Blizzard to write up several different languages. Even language professors wouldn't do that (Tolkien only did one, after all).
But no, there are no "sets" of words which will translate differently.
If you say "for the Earthmother" (or whatever the actual phrase is) in Taurahae, nobody will ever see "Ishnu por ah"
There is also no direct "translation" for specific words. Typing "lol" in common will result in "bur" in orcish, but if you add more to that, you won't always see "bur" in place of "lol"
I'd be willing to wager if you typed in common "lol lol lol lol lol" a horde would see something like "bur nud ars nud bur".

[Darkblade]

An interesting thing I just noticed...the dialects.lua seems to be incomplete, at least in some ways.
For example, "azrathud" is missing from demonic.
I don't know where this "blizzard-provided" information came from, but it seems to be flawed.

[Longcat]

YES! I got my WH orkish dialect working! I just can't use it in /rp but oh well. I can learn how to type like it after reading it on my screen so much in everything else!