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Teinyhr
Ourumur
#1 - 2011-12-09 16:11:06 UTC
As we all know, there are many different factions in New Eden, and there are certainly many languages. Is there any sort of compendium of known words or like even small language concepts in the official storywriters office wall? Something like do the new eden languages have their roots in modern languages (like Gallente could be somekind of likely very alien space-French), or are they completely new languages devised in the millennias between now and then?

I've also been pondering what's the stance of the storywriting staff of players inventing their own words or concepts? I suppose it can't be expected them to be accepted in to canon lore, but it's not discouraged either, I hope?
Maiko Motosuwa
Spacial-Temporal Survey LLC.
#2 - 2011-12-09 18:06:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Maiko Motosuwa
Teinyhr wrote:
As we all know, there are many different factions in New Eden, and there are certainly many languages. Is there any sort of compendium of known words or like even small language concepts in the official storywriters office wall? Something like do the new eden languages have their roots in modern languages (like Gallente could be somekind of likely very alien space-French), or are they completely new languages devised in the millennias between now and then?

I've also been pondering what's the stance of the storywriting staff of players inventing their own words or concepts? I suppose it can't be expected them to be accepted in to canon lore, but it's not discouraged either, I hope?


France strictly polices new words entering the language. They try very hard to maintain the feel and beauty of French. I think that it would be safe to assume that in the 21000+ years between now and then, the language wouldn't change much. Obviously Gallentean would be glaringly different when stacked up against current day French, but I don't feel like another language altogether would have been used. I think French is a safe bet.
Horatius Caul
Kitzless
#3 - 2011-12-10 03:27:29 UTC
Maiko Motosuwa wrote:
Teinyhr wrote:
As we all know, there are many different factions in New Eden, and there are certainly many languages. Is there any sort of compendium of known words or like even small language concepts in the official storywriters office wall? Something like do the new eden languages have their roots in modern languages (like Gallente could be somekind of likely very alien space-French), or are they completely new languages devised in the millennias between now and then?

I've also been pondering what's the stance of the storywriting staff of players inventing their own words or concepts? I suppose it can't be expected them to be accepted in to canon lore, but it's not discouraged either, I hope?


France strictly polices new words entering the language. They try very hard to maintain the feel and beauty of French. I think that it would be safe to assume that in the 21000+ years between now and then, the language wouldn't change much. Obviously Gallentean would be glaringly different when stacked up against current day French, but I don't feel like another language altogether would have been used. I think French is a safe bet.
It takes a singular state to police a language like that. The Gallente language has been divorced from the state of France for something like 20 000 years. About 15 000 of those were spent in a dark age in Luminaire.

I think it's safe to say that anything beyond remote traces of actual French would be extremely unlikely to remain.

Amarrad - Amarr language project
Maiko Motosuwa
Spacial-Temporal Survey LLC.
#4 - 2011-12-10 15:07:36 UTC
Horatius Caul wrote:
Maiko Motosuwa wrote:
Teinyhr wrote:
As we all know, there are many different factions in New Eden, and there are certainly many languages. Is there any sort of compendium of known words or like even small language concepts in the official storywriters office wall? Something like do the new eden languages have their roots in modern languages (like Gallente could be somekind of likely very alien space-French), or are they completely new languages devised in the millennias between now and then?

I've also been pondering what's the stance of the storywriting staff of players inventing their own words or concepts? I suppose it can't be expected them to be accepted in to canon lore, but it's not discouraged either, I hope?


France strictly polices new words entering the language. They try very hard to maintain the feel and beauty of French. I think that it would be safe to assume that in the 21000+ years between now and then, the language wouldn't change much. Obviously Gallentean would be glaringly different when stacked up against current day French, but I don't feel like another language altogether would have been used. I think French is a safe bet.
It takes a singular state to police a language like that. The Gallente language has been divorced from the state of France for something like 20 000 years. About 15 000 of those were spent in a dark age in Luminaire.

I think it's safe to say that anything beyond remote traces of actual French would be extremely unlikely to remain.


Sorry, correction: alien space-French
Tavin Aikisen
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#5 - 2011-12-12 13:48:51 UTC
And what would these languages sound like? The closest we have to the sound is the pronounciation of system names, which gives us limited insight.

I hope with the release of DUST 514 we get some in-game languages going. I wanna hear the universe as well as see it. A fantastic means to immerse the player as well.

"Remember this. Trust your eyes, you will kill each other. Trust your veins, you can all go home."

-Cold Wind