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

[Vrank Prins]

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?

Then you're talking about Afrikaans the languages of the boers (dutch word for farmers). It derives from dutch, it has also a little german influence from german settlers in South-Africa. But is certainly not a mixture from dutch and english.
The icelandic equivalent for farm is b(j?)aer as I got it. I don't know what that would be in danish. The english word farm comes from the french word ferme.

[JellyDonut]

I am still going to get the English version. Not only can I get it earlier, and probably cheaper too, but most of the translations in translated games are Scheiße, Schmeiße!

[campmajor!]

Originally posted by Vrank Prins
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.

Well, these "languages" are reffered to as British English / American English. So the term English is IMHO better.

[star mouse]

"Consequences, shmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!" - Daffy Duck

[Atahualpa]

whats all that consequences stuff about?

All I see is a lot of THREADJACKERS


Now for the confirmation: FIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!!!!!!!


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[Vrank Prins]

Originally posted by campmajor!
Well, these "languages" are reffered to as British English / American English. So the term English is IMHO better.

I'm "threadjacking" a bit more.


Here’s another reason for using the word anglo instead of english.

I’m not english, but to communicate here I’m using the language which has been spread all over the world by the english and americans. Their language has become a linqua franca and for me an important means to communicate.
Somehow over the years this language has become part of my own idiom, register. Visiting this forum here, for over a year now, I’m using it almost on a daily base . Does that make the language I’m using “Dutch-english” ?!, or if I would be a danish anglo-user “Dano-english”, or Germano-english etc..
My language is not really english, nor is it anglo-american or canac- or aussie-anglo, it is a mixture of all that and a bit of myself too. Therefore it has become more than/something different than solely, pure english. Since it has become my own language I’m not going to say I’m using “english”. To me it’s no longer english it has become "anglo". I don’t consider this language to be solely theirs (from the english, americans etc.) anymore. English is just another (o.k. one of the most powerful and for me most inspiring, but still a) manisfestation of this language, linqua vranca to me.

I think it will take sometime for the english and americans (and etc.) to realize that their language is no longer their own PROPERTY to which they have all the rights.


Here’s a comment I wrote months ago (and which I was willing to post but uptill now have never actually posted) after having read the umpteenth excuse by a nonnative anglo-user for the mistakes he was making:

““ Be proud of the fact that you’ve become bilingual by being an active anglo-user. (somehow I guess my anglo is rather english, but I’ve read anglo here by native anglo-users which was rather flawed english)
Allthough I'm not very strong about this because it’s pretty handy to have somekind of international lingua-franca, I sometimes think it’s the native anglo-users who have to apologize. They somehow seem to take it for granted that it’s us nonnative anglo-users who just have to come about and adapt. Sometimes I wished I had to use swahili here, to have an equal disadvantage with the native anglo-users.
Besides, and take this to your heart, it’s you who will be linguistical enriched by being bilingual, that’s something the native anglo-users miss and will never get. You may learn from it about your own native language too (well at least that’s what I do as a native dutch- and (!) frisian*-user (*the langauge closest of all germanic languages to english)).
Feel free to use anglo in what ever way to express yourself, for it has become your own language and is no longer solely theirs (i.e. the native anglo-users). Even by making mistakes !!!because that’s what they (t.n.a-u.) do too . ””


IK ZOU HET VERDOMDE LEKKER VINDEN AlS ER GEWOON EEN GOEDE NEDERLANDSTALIGE VERSIE VAN CIV ZOU KOMEN.
IS ER IETS MIS MET NEDERLANDS ??

[Nikolai]

Well, whatever...
The chanses for a norwegian version is like zero, anyway..

But, fortunately we learn good english in the norwegian school!

[Oligarf]

Originally posted by Vrank Prins
IK ZOU HET VERDOMDE LEKKER VINDEN AlS ER GEWOON EEN GOEDE NEDERLANDSTALIGE VERSIE VAN CIV ZOU KOMEN.
IS ER IETS MIS MET NEDERLANDS ??

Ik ook, maar dan moet de sfeer wel goed zijn, en ik wil dan ook goed lopende nederlandse tekst, ik wil niet zien dat het ooit engels was.