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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. Can you say "Esperanto"? by Scott7477 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An invented language that never got off the ground; I can't remember who the guy was that invented this back in the seventies but the developers could have gotten this language with samples of it spoken for free I am sure.

    Actually, now that I think about it, if you wanted to get people to adopt an invented language a great way to do it would be to build a MMORPG(gotta love the acronym) that responds to voice control rather than mouse and keyboard. If enough people got hooked a la EQ or FFXI you'd have a population base.

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