Great news from Gamestar about foreign language versions (Firaxis please confirm)

[Atahualpa]

This is the url to the news item (german):
http://www.gamestar.de/aktuell/news/news5422.html

For non-native-german-speaking people here the translation:

Firaxis and Infogrames have officially confirmed that Sid Meiers Strategyepos Civilization 3 has gone Gold and will be shipped in the US by October 30th. A version with a german manual will be available by November 17th. The completely translated version of the game however will be available presumably by next year.

Now that means: the version to be sold in Germany and Austria by November 17th ONLY has a german manual whereas the in-game texts and audio files are still in english!!!

If that would be true it would be AWESOME news!!!!
Even though of course I would have preffered an english manual too. But well I dont read them anyway

The downside is that Gamestar is known for its wrong news and that they are the crappiest and yet most selling PC Gaming Magazine in Europe.
So please could anyone from Firaxis confirm this news item?

Sincerely,
ata

[Fidel]

man, you better not change anything. i mean, how would 'consequences, schmonsequences!' sound in german?
'ergebnisse, schmergebnisse!'?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by LaRusso
man, you better not change anything. i mean, how would 'consequences, schmonsequences!' sound in german?
'ergebnisse, schmergebnisse!'?

Oh man that is way out think about how it would sound in danish "konsekvenser, smonsekvenser" Oh that is...total meaningless

[Fidel]

Originally posted by ADG


Oh man that is way out think about how it would sound in danish "konsekvenser, smonsekvenser" Oh that is...total meaningless

danish one sounds better think about hungarian:
kovetkozmeny, schkovetkozmeny (umlauts omitted)

[Adagio]

Originally posted by LaRusso
danish one sounds better think about hungarian:
kovetkozmeny, schkovetkozmeny (umlauts omitted)

Ouch...I shouldn't even try to pronounce that one

[fluffy]

what are the chances for a welsh translation?

'consequences, schmonsequences!'

would become

'canlyniau, schmanlyniau!'

[Vrank Prins]

Originally posted by ADG
Oh man that is way out think about how it would sound in danish "konsekvenser, smonsekvenser" Oh that is...total meaningless

And as meaningless as it sounds in danish, as meaningless does it sound in anglo. So there's really no difference.

[Messer Niccolò]

and which will be the Civ consequences of the different languages?
Maybe the usual schmonsequences?

[Roman]

That would be excellent news.

Otherwise it is: dosledky schmosledky

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Vrank Prins
And as meaningless as it sounds in danish, as meaningless does it sound in anglo. So there's really no difference.

Both yes and no (correct me if I'm wrong here, but anglo is that english or...?), in danish the meaningless isn't funny, the meaninglessness in anglo is funny in some way...

[Oligarf]

Translations are 9 out of 10 crap

When I started gaming all games where in English. And I am quite sure that a lot of my knowledge of the English language comes from my computergames. Recently some games that were made in English have only a Dutch version in the stores. Black & White as an example. But man, it's horrible, I want the English version. I don't know how this is in other countries but I don't want a Dutch version. 'Firaxis or Infogrames heard that?!'

[Vrank Prins]

Originally posted by ADG
correct me if I'm wrong here, but anglo is that english or

I prefer to use the word Anglo above english, because the language I usually encounter here (and in movies televisionprogramms etc.) is, well how shall I put it, not exactly the english I know from watching BBC, reading an english newspaper (I frequently read the Guardian and the Independent in the library at my job), or being on a holiday in Britain.

There are lots of yanks around here on this site, and canacs, and aussies, and kiwis (?!). Also, the anglo being used here by nonnative anglo-users is moreoften more american-coloured than english-colored.

Anglo, as I see it, is a broader term than english. It also includes american (+canadian, though canacs never like to admit that), australian, nieuw-zeelands and zuid-afrikaans (new-zealands and south-african, which originally as countries were given their names in dutch). These tongues are all just slightly different from english in speech and more and more in the expressions being used and writing, especially american.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Vrank Prins


I prefer to use the word Anglo above english, because the language I usually encounter here (and in movies televisionprogramms etc.) is, well how shall I put it, not exactly the english I know from watching BBC, reading an english newspaper (I frequently read the Guardian and the Independent in the library at my job), or being on a holiday in Britain.

There are lots of yanks around here on this site, and canacs, and aussies, and kiwis (?!). Also, the anglo being used here by nonnative anglo-users is moreoften more american-coloured than english-colored.

Anglo, as I see it, is a broader term than english. It also includes american (+canadian, though canacs never like to admit that), australian, nieuw-zeelands and zuid-afrikaans (new-zealands and south-african, which originally as countries were given their names in dutch). These tongues are all just slightly different from english in speech and more and more in the expressions being used and writing, especially american.

ah, thx for telling me, I didn't know that...but now I do

[Oligarf]

Originally posted by Vrank Prins


I prefer to use the word Anglo above english, because the language I usually encounter here (and in movies televisionprogramms etc.) is, well how shall I put it, not exactly the english I know from watching BBC, reading an english newspaper (I frequently read the Guardian and the Independent in the library at my job), or being on a holiday in Britain.

There are lots of yanks around here on this site, and canacs, and aussies, and kiwis (?!). Also, the anglo being used here by nonnative anglo-users is moreoften more american-coloured than english-colored.

Anglo, as I see it, is a broader term than english. It also includes american (+canadian, though canacs never like to admit that), australian, nieuw-zeelands and zuid-afrikaans (new-zealands and south-african, which originally as countries were given their names in dutch). These tongues are all just slightly different from english in speech and more and more in the expressions being used and writing, especially american.

Zuid-Afrikaans help me, wasn't that some kind of mixture between English and Dutch? Could you still call that Anglo?

[Earthling7]

Originally posted by Oligarf
Zuid-Afrikaans help me, wasn't that some kind of mixture between English and Dutch? Could you still call that Anglo?

I thought that was just misspelled Dutch, as the forefathers would have spoken...