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From: sonix@schunix.dmc.com (Duane Morin)
Subject: Re: Foreign Languages in IF
Message-ID: <1994Feb25.155323.3745@schunix.dmc.com>
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 15:53:23 GMT
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Sheesh, in my last post I forgot completely to mention how players would
be expected to learn this new language.  Good question. :)  I don't have
a great answer, although the idea of offering a dictionary of the langauge
(ala Klingon) to registered users as an incentive sounds kinda neat.  
Maybe put a virtual version of the book in the game, or let the player
find some sort of translation device that can do simple sentences for 
them.  Of course, if all you're going to do is translate English into
this new language, you might as well just use English!

Ah, well, maybe it's not as neat as I thought.

Duane

