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<blockquote data-quote="Perun" data-source="post: 1367291" data-attributes="member: 6037">I've gamed in English and Croatian (my mother tongue). Our current DM used to live in the USA for a long time, about 17 years, and he started gaming over there. When he introduced the game to us, back in '94, we first started playing in English. The degree of English proficiency varied, but all knew it well enough to understand the rules.We used to play exclusively in English till about two or three years ago, when we decided to switch to Croatian. The above mentioned DM, who wasn't very proficient in Croatian in the beginning speaks it well enough now, so it's all good.We still use some English terms, and we do mix-and-match a lot, but I still prefer to role-play my characters in Croatian. For a tiny country, we have an enormous number of dialects. (Try three main dialects, with another three ways of pronunciation (and the latter can be combined among themselves), and you've got an almost inexhaustable source of language variation.)We've had some difficulties with translating certain terms to Croatian (for example, there are no separate words for wizard and sorcerer in Croatian, both are covered by the word čarobnjak).As a side note, a number of D&amp;D novels (mainly FR, IIRC) were translated in Croatian, but the translation was extremely bad. Not a good way to attract possible gaming audience.Regards.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Perun, post: 1367291, member: 6037"] I've gamed in English and Croatian (my mother tongue). Our current DM used to live in the USA for a long time, about 17 years, and he started gaming over there. When he introduced the game to us, back in '94, we first started playing in English. The degree of English proficiency varied, but all knew it well enough to understand the rules. We used to play exclusively in English till about two or three years ago, when we decided to switch to Croatian. The above mentioned DM, who wasn't very proficient in Croatian in the beginning speaks it well enough now, so it's all good. We still use some English terms, and we do mix-and-match a lot, but I still prefer to role-play my characters in Croatian. For a tiny country, we have an enormous number of dialects. (Try three main dialects, with another three ways of pronunciation (and the latter can be combined among themselves), and you've got an almost inexhaustable source of language variation.) We've had some difficulties with translating certain terms to Croatian (for example, there are no separate words for wizard and sorcerer in Croatian, both are covered by the word [I]čarobnjak[/I]). As a side note, a number of D&D novels (mainly FR, IIRC) were translated in Croatian, but the translation was extremely bad. Not a good way to attract possible gaming audience. Regards. [/QUOTE]

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