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Languages? Aye, there be people who speak many more than you do in the lands of Nexus. It would do you a mite of good to learn some of a few. It's a courtesy, something else ye might do well to learn. This project got started when I realized that I had friends from over a dozen different countries. When Nexon posted a few Indonesian translations to help welcome some visitors from Nexia, the idea crystalized. It took a while, but we now have a Nexus phrasebook, translating crucial phrases like "Hunt?" into over a dozen languages. True, most players know at least that much English ... in fact, it's required in school in some countries ... but it's still a nice touch to be able to ask a French-speaking friend "Veux-tu chasser?" Several things to note: One, these translations were contributed by numerous Nexus players. A few of them are studying the language in school rather than native speakers. I do not speak most of these languages, so I'm not able to verify the accuracy of the translation, especially several different people supplied differing translations. If you can correct some of these, please let me know. Two, the lack of accents and other symbols, and the phonetic transcription of languages using non-Roman alphabets, is intentional. These are meant to be something you can type in Nexus, which is limited to the English version of the Roman alphabet. Also, in some cases there was some disagreement among sources as to whether some things were one word or several. Finally, remember that these are meant to be ways of saying something that would be understandable to a speaker of the language in question, rather than scholarly translations. No doubt some are not formally correct, and some English words and abbreviations have crept in. I suppose I should have had one more phrase on the list: "Don't stress about it!" Note: I am still looking for someone to do Italian and any other languages that I don't know about in Nexus. |