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Real Language In Jade Empire

Posted by Zonk on from the great-jobs dept.

HamOperator writes "Tho Fan is a made-up language spoken by unreal people in the XBox game Jade Empire. The New York Times has an interview with the creator of the language." From the article: "...they wanted to avoid using Chinese or any other Asian language that might shackle their invented universe to actual historical events. At the same time, they did not want to resort to unintelligible nonsense."

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  1. Quite nice, by BaatZ · · Score: 1, Funny

    But i wonder why chinese won't do, or some of the dozen almost extincted languages out there ?

  2. If they make a book about this language.... by whitetiger0990 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd go insane.

    And I'd buy it! I never could grasp elven... That's a new language to add to my list.

    1. Klingon
    2. Elven
    3. Newspeak
    4. Japanese
    and now...
    5. Jade Empire language

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    1. Re:If they make a book about this language.... by schild · · Score: 5, Funny

      Please don't breed.

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    2. Re:If they make a book about this language.... by M.C.+Hampster · · Score: 5, Funny

      Please don't breed.

      I believe his interest in pretend languages pretty much assures that.

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    3. Re:If they make a book about this language.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, its not like anyone ACTUALLY speaks Japanese, its really just gibberish they use to fool foreigners into thinking they don't speak English all the time.

    4. Re:If they make a book about this language.... by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can't believe Lapine isn't on your list! You must be one of the Hrair?

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  3. Re:Say what? by xgamer04 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, but you see, many of the words in the english language are actually tied to specific historical events:

    the - first used by Bob the blacksmith of london in 1398.
    it - Shakespeare.
    a - monkeys.

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  4. Why bother? by faloi · · Score: 2, Funny

    We've already got Esperanto, a made up language nobody uses.

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