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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Yes.  It just varies with the relative spacial positions of all your body parts, as well as your location relative to the intended addressees, the emperor... But everyone learne to read all the forms, so they have no problem with it.

Ok, that's for Vasudans. But how do terrans managed to create translators??  :eek2:
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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Yes.  It just varies with the relative spacial positions of all your body parts, as well as your location relative to the intended addressees, the emperor... But everyone learne to read all the forms, so they have no problem with it.

Ok, that's for Vasudans. But how do terrans managed to create translators??  :eek2:
Well somehow they did it... otherwise GTVA would never be succesfull...and there would never be Freespace 2...


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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Given the mindblowing nature of the vasudan language, how do they even have a written form?

Why not?  IIRC Mandarin has around 40,000 symbols representing ideas, for example, but it can still be written in pinyin using the latin alphabet.

 
Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Why not?  IIRC Mandarin has around 40,000 symbols representing ideas, for example, but it can still be written in pinyin using the latin alphabet.

Yeah, but Mandarin doesen't change according to the relative position of the speakers from the emperor... :D
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Stupid Zods, does that mean when the HoL rebelled, that they took on their own dialect?



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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Why not?  IIRC Mandarin has around 40,000 symbols representing ideas, for example, but it can still be written in pinyin using the latin alphabet.

Yeah, but Mandarin doesen't change according to the relative position of the speakers from the emperor... :D

That may be just a tense change; you can write it all the same.
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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Well somehow they did it... otherwise GTVA would never be succesfull...and there would never be Freespace 2...
Or a FreeSpace 1, for that matter, considering if the Terrans and Vasudans hadn't banded together they would have been wiped out.
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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Or it could be one of those dramatic trajedy stories.... Huh?

 

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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Stupid Zods, does that mean when the HoL rebelled, that they took on their own dialect?

Yeah. The position was called giving the Khonsu the finger. :D
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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
:lol:

I've never really thought too much about First Contact between Terrans and Vasudans, but seeing as how the Vasudans are absolute master linguists, I'm guessing that they were the ones who first figured out how to talk to us, not the other way around. :p

 

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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
There's probably an official dialect, and a pidgin language for just this reason.
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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
There's probably an official dialect, and a pidgin language for just this reason.

Yea, and probably there is also a guide on how to pronounce it.


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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
Such symbols would look great if "carved" directly on the hull. On a name plate, they would just... suck.

 
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could be a good idea, if somebody is able to obtain such a graphic effect!
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Bump mapping is planned at some point...
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Re: Font for Vasudan name plate
It looks all the same at the part where there is the simble thing...
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