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CavalryPK
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Asking a simple question. that whoever got the answer would have gotten 10k gold. "cuz I am bored out of my mind".. The post got zos_closed since they thought it is German in English section of the forums..

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    I thought it was gonna be a joke, with the punchline being like a computer blown through a wall

    ...

    Needless to say I'm leaving disappointed
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    Waffennacht wrote: »
    I thought it was gonna be a joke, with the punchline being like a computer blown through a wall

    ...

    Needless to say I'm leaving disappointed

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    Zu'u lorfonaar dovah vun los ahk mul fah niist joor miin wah etaak.
    I guess dragon tongue is too strong for their mortal eyes to read.

    Edited by Mic1007 on January 26, 2018 8:34PM
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    There is no ä, ö, or ü in Dragon Tongue. And no words like Ultrahocherhitzungsverfahren.

    I'd be offended if someone mistook that for German.
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    I suppose dragon tongue is to strong for their mortal eye to read.

    edit: didn't see the spoiler, looks like the translator I used got close.
    Edited by kargen27 on January 26, 2018 8:48PM
    and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."
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    Mic1007 wrote: »
    Zu'u lorfonaar dovah vun los ahk mul fah niist joor miin wah etaak.
    I guess dragon tongue is too strong for their mortal eyes to read.

    I mean, I can't speak German but even I know thi looks NOTHING like German
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    Varana wrote: »
    And no words like Ultrahocherhitzungsverfahren...
    ...which is why one should avoid playing charades in the german language. And its not even the worst... that might be a monster of a word like "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsraddampferkapitänskajütentürsicherheitsschlüssel"
    (yes, it -actually- is a thing.)
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    Lol omg mods please reopen
  • Mic1007
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    TheShadowScout wrote: »
    Varana wrote: »
    And no words like Ultrahocherhitzungsverfahren...
    ...which is why one should avoid playing charades in the german language. And its not even the worst... that might be a monster of a word like "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsraddampferkapitänskajütentürsicherheitsschlüssel"
    (yes, it -actually- is a thing.)

    "Danube Steamship Company steamer captain's cabin door security key."

    Why is there a word for this? :lol:
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    consider the possibility. people who actualy write the game are not the same people that manage community, hence not realizing that the phrase was in draconic? that said, the thread really should be reopened :P
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    JamieAubrey wrote: »
    Mic1007 wrote: »
    Zu'u lorfonaar dovah vun los ahk mul fah niist joor miin wah etaak.
    I guess dragon tongue is too strong for their mortal eyes to read.

    I mean, I can't speak German but even I know thi looks NOTHING like German

    You know nothing about "ze sigret languitsh". You are allowed to keep on existing in blissful ignorance.
    Edited by Leandor on January 26, 2018 9:32PM
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    How do you say wrobeled in dovah?
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    Jitterbug wrote: »
    How do you say wrobeled in dovah?

    Might need to ask the Loremaster for that one.
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    Mic1007 wrote: »
    TheShadowScout wrote: »
    Varana wrote: »
    And no words like Ultrahocherhitzungsverfahren...
    ...which is why one should avoid playing charades in the german language. And its not even the worst... that might be a monster of a word like "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsraddampferkapitänskajütentürsicherheitsschlüssel"
    (yes, it -actually- is a thing.)

    "Danube Steamship Company steamer captain's cabin door security key."

    Why is there a word for this? :lol:

    There wasn't one until it was needed. Then it came into being.

    The hilarious thing about German is, a lot of the compound nouns only exist contextually. So, while what Shadow is posting is true... it's slightly more accurate to say that German lets you invent your own compound words whenever you feel the need to, and never tells you, "okay, you've had enough now, time to stop."
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    Mic1007 wrote: »

    "Danube Steamship Company steamer captain's cabin door security key."

    Why is there a word for this? :lol:

    Obviously because steamer captains for the Danube Steamship Company must, at all times, carry multiple security keys to cabin doors that are not their own, as well as other keys that are either for cabin doors but not classified as security keys or are, in fact, security keys but not for cabin doors, and, furthermore, some Danube Steamship Company keys (including some, but not all, security keys, possibly to cabin doors), that are not steamer captain's keys, and finally, on occasion, some keys that are, on the one hand, steamer captain's keys but not, in fact, property of the Danube Steamship Company...

    Really, it isn't that complicated.

    The fun bit is that English is, linguistically speaking, fairly close to German (unsurprising given who the Angles and the Saxes were, among others), and yet in English this capacity to string together words to form compound words has been...not really there? My first, and usually correct, instinct is to blame the French...
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    Jarryzzt wrote: »
    Mic1007 wrote: »

    "Danube Steamship Company steamer captain's cabin door security key."

    Why is there a word for this? :lol:

    Obviously because steamer captains for the Danube Steamship Company must, at all times, carry multiple security keys to cabin doors that are not their own, as well as other keys that are either for cabin doors but not classified as security keys or are, in fact, security keys but not for cabin doors, and, furthermore, some Danube Steamship Company keys (including some, but not all, security keys, possibly to cabin doors), that are not steamer captain's keys, and finally, on occasion, some keys that are, on the one hand, steamer captain's keys but not, in fact, property of the Danube Steamship Company...

    Really, it isn't that complicated.

    The fun bit is that English is, linguistically speaking, fairly close to German (unsurprising given who the Angles and the Saxes were, among others), and yet in English this capacity to string together words to form compound words has been...not really there? My first, and usually correct, instinct is to blame the French...

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    Varana wrote: »
    There is no ä, ö, or ü in Dragon Tongue. And no words like Ultrahocherhitzungsverfahren.

    I'd be offended if someone mistook that for German.

    Exactly. There is no word in dragon tongue for automobile indicator lights. Whereas in German.... die Klickenklackenflickenblicken!!
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    Jarryzzt wrote: »
    Mic1007 wrote: »

    "Danube Steamship Company steamer captain's cabin door security key."

    Why is there a word for this? :lol:

    Obviously because steamer captains for the Danube Steamship Company must, at all times, carry multiple security keys to cabin doors that are not their own, as well as other keys that are either for cabin doors but not classified as security keys or are, in fact, security keys but not for cabin doors, and, furthermore, some Danube Steamship Company keys (including some, but not all, security keys, possibly to cabin doors), that are not steamer captain's keys, and finally, on occasion, some keys that are, on the one hand, steamer captain's keys but not, in fact, property of the Danube Steamship Company...

    Really, it isn't that complicated.

    The fun bit is that English is, linguistically speaking, fairly close to German (unsurprising given who the Angles and the Saxes were, among others), and yet in English this capacity to string together words to form compound words has been...not really there? My first, and usually correct, instinct is to blame the French...

    Probably right; the Latin root of English is strong enough to avoid things like extending words to 100 characters long. :p
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    Hmm, Dragon implies EP, and all the EP speak I know is "Lets Zerg Alessia Bridge"
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    TheShadowScout wrote: »
    Varana wrote: »
    And no words like Ultrahocherhitzungsverfahren...
    ...which is why one should avoid playing charades in the german language. And its not even the worst... that might be a monster of a word like "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsraddampferkapitänskajütentürsicherheitsschlüssel"
    (yes, it -actually- is a thing.)

    That's beautiful... At least it's better than the longest Hungarian word, "megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért". Although I'm almost sure I could make up a longer one after a long, long brain session...
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    Zypheran wrote: »
    There is no word in dragon tongue for automobile indicator lights. Whereas in German.... die Klickenklackenflickenblicken!!

    Actually, it's just Blinker ...
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    Jarryzzt wrote: »
    The fun bit is that English is, linguistically speaking, fairly close to German (unsurprising given who the Angles and the Saxes were, among others), and yet in English this capacity to string together words to form compound words has been...not really there? My first, and usually correct, instinct is to blame the French...

    It is there in English in a lesser (and less obvious) way.
    You don't string words together in English, you write them separately one after the other, or sometimes with a hyphen. English usually stops after two or three words:
    Front page article. Bullet wound treatment. Fishing boat motor.
    In theory, you could go on:
    Front page article headline.
    Front page article headline author.
    It's seen as bad style and cumbersome (and with good reason) to do this. But it's the same thing as in German or other languages, just the writing conventions (separate, or concatenated) are different.

    German can take this quite a bit further. But no one would use a word like the above in normal speech. It's technically possible, but technical terms and esp. legal writing are the only areas where it's used somewhat frequently.
    It also doesn't help that German words tend to be longer than in English which has a huge amount of frequently used monosyllabic words.
    Edited by Varana on January 27, 2018 11:23AM
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    CavalryPK wrote: »
    Asking a simple question. that whoever got the answer would have gotten 10k gold. "cuz I am bored out of my mind".. The post got zos_closed since they thought it is German in English section of the forums..

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

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    TheShadowScout wrote: »
    Varana wrote: »
    And no words like Ultrahocherhitzungsverfahren...
    ...which is why one should avoid playing charades in the german language. And its not even the worst... that might be a monster of a word like "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsraddampferkapitänskajütentürsicherheitsschlüssel"
    (yes, it -actually- is a thing.)

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    The real question is whether any of these words can be pronounced correctly by Chris Balser on a live stream.
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    SirAndy wrote: »
    Zypheran wrote: »
    There is no word in dragon tongue for automobile indicator lights. Whereas in German.... die Klickenklackenflickenblicken!!

    Actually, it's just Blinker ...
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    Actually the official term is Fahrtrichtungsanzeiger.
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    JamieAubrey wrote: »
    Mic1007 wrote: »
    Zu'u lorfonaar dovah vun los ahk mul fah niist joor miin wah etaak.
    I guess dragon tongue is too strong for their mortal eyes to read.

    I mean, I can't speak German but even I know thi looks NOTHING like German

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