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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. Re:Quite nice, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    they wanted to avoid using Chinese or any other Asian language that might shackle their invented universe to actual historical events.

    Yes, nice soundbite. What the fuck is that supposed to mean, though? You're saying that if I use Xi dialog in an American game, all the monolingual American kids out there playing my game will say "Ooh, that's Xi, that is! This obviously fictitious universe must actually be an allegory for the suppression of non-Han ethnic minorities in Tang-dynasty China!"

    Yeah fucking right.