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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 6307957" data-attributes="member: 6688049"><p><strong>What brought it on.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The question is informal research toward these things I've been wondering about:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I've been wondering if D&D has ever been published in a 'stateless' language, such as Catalan. It's a followup to my request for 5e translations to appear in smaller languages (<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?355478-Things-that-probably-won-t-happen-but-man-would-it-be-cool-if-they-did!&p=6307931&viewfull=1#post6307931" target="_blank">on another thread</a>).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'm interested in actually fun things such as D&D and Star Wars (rather than 'pre-chewed' boring textbooks) being used as a tool for learning and propagating languages.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'm interested in finding out what are names for in-game things in various languages (such as 'elf' and 'sword' and 'fireball'), because some of the in-game languages are essentially Real World languages, such as the Espan (Spanish) and Verdan (Portugues) languages of Mystara. So knowing the D&D terminology in Spanish and Portuguese gives a window into those in-game languages. I've started gathering such "<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/d-d-languages" target="_blank">Gamer's Glossaries</a>".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'm imagining what my <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/culture-books" target="_blank">Culture Books idea</a> would look like in 5e. These would be like the <em>Oriental Adventures</em> or 2e <em>Historical Reference </em>series, but for every world culture. It'd be swell to make a<em> Turtle Island Adventures </em>sourcebook which featured a table of in-game words in a variety of Indigenous North American languages, or a <em>Celtic Adventures</em> book which gave Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, and Gaulish glossaries for spell names, monsters, and so forth. ...And furthermore, for those books to also be translated into various Indigenous North American and Celtic languages, as an authentically fun vehicle for language cultivation.</li> </ul><p></p><p>Curiously, there are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" target="_blank">Wikipedia entries for D&D</a> in many rare and wonderful languages, such as Lowland Scots, Occitan, and Welsh.</p><p></p><p>That's what brought it on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dungeonosophy, post: 6307957, member: 6688049"] [b]What brought it on.[/b] The question is informal research toward these things I've been wondering about: [LIST] [*]I've been wondering if D&D has ever been published in a 'stateless' language, such as Catalan. It's a followup to my request for 5e translations to appear in smaller languages ([URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?355478-Things-that-probably-won-t-happen-but-man-would-it-be-cool-if-they-did!&p=6307931&viewfull=1#post6307931"]on another thread[/URL]). [*]I'm interested in actually fun things such as D&D and Star Wars (rather than 'pre-chewed' boring textbooks) being used as a tool for learning and propagating languages. [*]I'm interested in finding out what are names for in-game things in various languages (such as 'elf' and 'sword' and 'fireball'), because some of the in-game languages are essentially Real World languages, such as the Espan (Spanish) and Verdan (Portugues) languages of Mystara. So knowing the D&D terminology in Spanish and Portuguese gives a window into those in-game languages. I've started gathering such "[URL="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/d-d-languages"]Gamer's Glossaries[/URL]". [*]I'm imagining what my [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/dndphilmont/culture-books"]Culture Books idea[/URL] would look like in 5e. These would be like the [I]Oriental Adventures[/I] or 2e [I]Historical Reference [/I]series, but for every world culture. It'd be swell to make a[I] Turtle Island Adventures [/I]sourcebook which featured a table of in-game words in a variety of Indigenous North American languages, or a [I]Celtic Adventures[/I] book which gave Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, and Gaulish glossaries for spell names, monsters, and so forth. ...And furthermore, for those books to also be translated into various Indigenous North American and Celtic languages, as an authentically fun vehicle for language cultivation. [/LIST] Curiously, there are [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons"]Wikipedia entries for D&D[/URL] in many rare and wonderful languages, such as Lowland Scots, Occitan, and Welsh. That's what brought it on. [/QUOTE]
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