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Posted February 14, 2014
Most amusing thread, thanks:)
Posted February 14, 2014
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JudasIscariot: We occasionally do add other languages to our games as the legal situation permits and we can find the original masters. See this post: http://www.gog.com/news/language_packs_update_10_classic_games

Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that Italian versions of games are sometimes the hardest to find :) Dragon Lore Italian was such a case. Ebay was literally swimming in German, French, and Spanish versions but Italian? Man, that's like winning the lottery :D
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reaver894: Can we get duke nukem Manhattan project in Latin please?
Latin? Pfft.I demand Aramaic.
Posted February 14, 2014
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JudasIscariot: We occasionally do add other languages to our games as the legal situation permits and we can find the original masters. See this post: http://www.gog.com/news/language_packs_update_10_classic_games

Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that Italian versions of games are sometimes the hardest to find :) Dragon Lore Italian was such a case. Ebay was literally swimming in German, French, and Spanish versions but Italian? Man, that's like winning the lottery :D
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tajemniczybeton: Are Polish versions hard to find too?
Depends on the legal situation :)
Posted February 14, 2014
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falster: Please excuse my ignorance, and merely through inquisitiveness, and perhaps ignorance... but if not english, whats the first most widely used?
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reaver894: Last time i looked Chinese manderin
Sort of. Only about 70% of Chinese know that, and that includes various levels. It's still a huge language, but the numbers tend to be overestimated because the government wants to look important.

And even then, once they're out of school, chances are they never use any more Mandarin.
Posted February 14, 2014
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reaver894: Can we get duke nukem Manhattan project in Latin please?
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hedwards: Latin? Pfft.I demand Aramaic.
How about oldest to newest....Esperanto!
Posted February 14, 2014
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hedwards: Latin? Pfft.I demand Aramaic.
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tinyE: How about oldest to newest....Esperanto!
Esperanto? I hope not...
Posted February 14, 2014
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Elmofongo: ...Because most of the games were made in the U.S.A.?
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kekko92mt: no. i've got the original Theme Hospital in Italian , English and others
Its localization was made under a certain contract. It's impossible to say what it said exactly - these things generally aren't shared with the public - but it's a fair guess that the publisher has restricted or no rights to sell the localized version. One possible reason is that the contract says that the publisher can use the localization at will in CD releases - however, because GOG sells a downloadable version, the contract would not apply to that.

That, and sometimes it's really bloody difficult to track down who holds the rights in the first place, because it could be the developer (I suppose), the publisher, a language service provider (i.e. a translation agency) or the translator themselves.
Posted February 14, 2014
How about Welsh? Although fewer people would understand it than Latin, it would be comedy to see how much larger the installers get with the ridiculous words...
Posted February 14, 2014
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IAmSinistar: It's the universal language. Even the aliens on Doctor Who and Star Trek speak it.

Besides, it's easy to translate English yourself. For German, change W to V, C to K, and "the" to "der". For Russian, add -avich to names, -ski to nouns, and toss in some Sovietness. For Italian, just add -a to every third word and end with an exclamation. Like so:

English: "Commander Shephard, where is the Krogan lubricant?"

German: "Kommander Shephard, vere is der Krogan lubrikant?"

Russian: "Comrade Shephardavich, where is the People's Krogan lubricantski?"

Italian: "Commander-a Shephard, where is-a the Krogan lubricant-a? Mama mia!"

Most companies don't bother because this can take a whole afternoon to do.
+1 for the giggles
Posted February 14, 2014
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reaver894: Can we get duke nukem Manhattan project in Latin please?
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tinyE: "Refert! Qui me bene!"
"Habeo globos ferrum!"
Posted February 14, 2014
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IAmSinistar: It's the universal language. Even the aliens on Doctor Who and Star Trek speak it.
As long as we're making fun of languages, some may find this amusing. It's a lesson in the Queen's English from a Danish joke site. Never mind the Danish sentences, they are just Danish translations of the English ones.

EDIT: Oh, and some may find it offensive.
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Posted February 14, 2014
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Wishbone: As long as we're making fun of languages, some may find this amusing. It's a lesson in the Queen's English from a Danish joke site. Never mind the Danish sentences, they are just Danish translations of the English ones.

EDIT: Oh, and some may find it offensive.
A smidge off-colour, but chucklesome. +1
Posted February 14, 2014
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IAmSinistar: It's the universal language. Even the aliens on Doctor Who and Star Trek speak it.

Besides, it's easy to translate English yourself. For German, change W to V, C to K, and "the" to "der". For Russian, add -avich to names, -ski to nouns, and toss in some Sovietness. For Italian, just add -a to every third word and end with an exclamation. Like so:

English: "Commander Shephard, where is the Krogan lubricant?"

German: "Kommander Shephard, vere is der Krogan lubrikant?"

Russian: "Comrade Shephardavich, where is the People's Krogan lubricantski?"

Italian: "Commander-a Shephard, where is-a the Krogan lubricant-a? Mama mia!"

Most companies don't bother because this can take a whole afternoon to do.
+1, that's hilarious.
Posted February 14, 2014
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IAmSinistar: It's the universal language. Even the aliens on Doctor Who and Star Trek speak it.

Besides, it's easy to translate English yourself. For German, change W to V, C to K, and "the" to "der". For Russian, add -avich to names, -ski to nouns, and toss in some Sovietness. For Italian, just add -a to every third word and end with an exclamation. Like so:

English: "Commander Shephard, where is the Krogan lubricant?"

German: "Kommander Shephard, vere is der Krogan lubrikant?"

Russian: "Comrade Shephardavich, where is the People's Krogan lubricantski?"

Italian: "Commander-a Shephard, where is-a the Krogan lubricant-a? Mama mia!"

Most companies don't bother because this can take a whole afternoon to do.
+1. Please tell me you came up with that yourself. I was giggling throughout. I'm glad I'm not the only one who is "fluent" in many many languages in this fashion.
Posted February 14, 2014
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reaver894: Last time i looked Chinese manderin
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falster: Which is crazy ay? As ive only ever been to one place where they speak that ( hong kong) yet every other country ive ever been to speaks english, at varying levels.

A population thing i guess.....
I thought they mostly spoke Cantonese in Hong Kong.
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