Multicultural Gameplay

WastedWasted Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10795Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Or: What the h*** did you just say?</div> I'm from Singapore (It's not in China, btw. Remember Michael Fay? Our ban on chewing gum? SARS?) and while English is the lingua franca here, the vernacular accent used during online gameplay is distinctively different from that of more common American, English or Aussie English.

Since there're only a grand total of four local servers I usually end up playing on other servers in the Asia-Pacific, where I'd end up listening to Cantonese on the Hongkong severs, Taiwanese Mandarin on the Taiwanese servers, Korean on the S. Korean servers, Japanese on the Japanese servers, Australian English on the Australian servers, and British English on the UK servers.

It's fun hearing a different language or a different accent of English over the voicecomm. Initially. But soon the novelty wears off and it gets quite annoying when my Korean/Hongkonger/Taiwanese comm's giving me detailed instructions that I don't understand a word of, or when some cad hurls some expletives my way (don't you hate it when someone tells you to f*** off in a foreign language?).

I'm guessing most of you NS players on this forum hail from either the US, UK, or Australia where English is the lingua franca (or the <i>only</i> spoken language of your community), so you probably might not have experienced the same degree of multilingual gameplay as I have. Or have you?

Have any of you played (or do you regularly play) on a non-English-speaking NS server, and what's your gameplay experience like (compared to if you play on a local server)? Given that NS is has a particularly strong emphasis on teamwork, has being unable to communicate with the other players on your team been a tangible handicap?
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    Rule of the day:
    Don't play on a server where you don't know the language.

    Second Rule:
    Stick to the language of the server.

    Yah, I am an american. I stay away from any server that isn't english (I tend to beable to understand most accents).

    I am also a constie so I get to play with alot of the Brits (and a few aussies) Regularly. Its fun and rather amusing.

    The American coulture tends to make fun of accents alot, thus many of us sorta assume that 'no one ACTUALY talks like that' simply b/c we figgure that it is just some one making fun of another country.

    Then you come on a server and your comm is an aussie. Its fun <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->


    As an interesting side note:
    The Aussies tend to be MUCH esier to understand then ANY one else. I am wondering if it has to do with the accent (Or possibly they just know how to use a mike <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)
  • ForlornForlorn Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2634Banned
    <!--QuoteBegin--Wasted+Nov 17 2003, 03:57 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wasted @ Nov 17 2003, 03:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm from Singapore (It's not in China, btw. Remember Michael Fay? Our ban on chewing gum? SARS?) and while English is the lingua franca here, the vernacular accent used during online gameplay is distinctively different from that of more common American, English or Aussie English.

    Since there're only a grand total of four local servers I usually end up playing on other servers in the Asia-Pacific, where I'd end up listening to Cantonese on the Hongkong severs, Taiwanese Mandarin on the Taiwanese servers, Korean on the S. Korean servers, Japanese on the Japanese servers, Australian English on the Australian servers, and British English on the UK servers.

    It's fun hearing a different language or a different accent of English over the voicecomm. Initially. But soon the novelty wears off and it gets quite annoying when my Korean/Hongkonger/Taiwanese comm's giving me detailed instructions that I don't understand a word of, or when some cad hurls some expletives my way (don't you hate it when someone tells you to f*** off in a foreign language?).

    I'm guessing most of you NS players on this forum hail from either the US, UK, or Australia where English is the lingua franca (or the <i>only</i> spoken language of your community), so you probably might not have experienced the same degree of multilingual gameplay as I have. Or have you?

    Have any of you played (or do you regularly play) on a non-English-speaking NS server, and what's your gameplay experience like (compared to if you play on a local server)? Given that NS is has a particularly strong emphasis on teamwork, has being unable to communicate with the other players on your team been a tangible handicap? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    ROFL!!!!


    All in good human nature, I suppose. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • MazkalineMazkaline Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13409Members
    Uu, I know! I know!
    Same thing mainly in europe too. Servers are quite near each other and my connection speed is terrible, which means majority of games I hear only unrecognized mumbling and buzzing or then someone tries to explain something VERY interesting and Important.
    "gazluzirnazkah nazuzeiheihei"
    "..." <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
    "Ranuzkishihtarsihztihtapi <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo-->!!!!" <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->
    "Oh this is something I understand!" *takataka takataka!* <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Most likely message comes in one of the six languages I know exist in servers. Either its english, spanish, french, german, swedish or always so lovely finnish which I still dont understand through microphone, even though I've written a book in finnish :F=
    And it was fun listening to them in the start, now it only pisses me off when someone has good connection while my lag is under 100 and can receive clear spanish speech (which I dont understand a word, I cant even swear in spanish)
  • TrevelyanTrevelyan Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14834Members
    If i join a non-english server, and for some reason i am to lazy to find another... I just pretend i am a bot... i build the nearest object, i shoot the nearest foe... i dont leave the base unless given an order Via waypoint... it is actually fun, especially when the comm doesn' t use the waypoint and just screams at me over the voice comm (or is it someone else?). Besides... whats the worse case senario? i defend the base effectively and reliably... asking for a welder however is a tough job, and is probubly the only communication i give to the comm.

    Could we get a list of how to say welder in several popular languages? that would help some.
  • uranium_235uranium_235 Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9478Banned
    /me gives Wasted a hug for being honest <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    edited November 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Trevelyan+Nov 17 2003, 08:15 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trevelyan @ Nov 17 2003, 08:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
    Could we get a list of how to say welder in several popular languages? that would help some. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Soldador, por favor - Spanish
    Soudeuse, sil vous plait - French
    Schweisser bitte - German

    (my spanish and french are rusty, so they may not be entirely correct, and my german is lacking, so I just used an online translator...and whatever you do, don't forget the w in schweisser)
  • Lt_HendricksonLt_Hendrickson Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14761Members
    I once went on a german server where half spoke english. It was simple, we played german speaking vs english all day.
  • mcrwvdmcrwvd Join Date: 2003-10-18 Member: 21756Members, Constellation
    i never heard a german calling for a "Schweisser" <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> , and im german <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    just call it welder, works on all german servers i know <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    Did he just use the word "cad"? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I can appreciated what you're saying, a few weeks back there was this pair of spanish players on Roobs who would constantly chat over the voicecomm (it wasn't game related according to a spanish-speaking member of the server). It was just a shame there was no admin present or they would have been kick-banned instantly.

    Not for speaking their own language you understand, but for repeatedly speaking (well, spamming is more accurate a word in this case) a language that 90% of the server population couldn't understand... DOWN THE VOICECOMM for the ENTIRE time they were there, after being told repeatedly to please stop.

    Oh, and they liked to go commander and then only give orders to their spanish buddy. Yes we ejected them, but then they only got worse and started swearing at us in broken english.

    I think someone talking down the voicecomm in ENGLISH as much as they were would have been banned.

    Yes, I know, mute. And I did. In a perfect world there would be no need for a mute button.

    If anyone from roobs knows what happened to them? I would be most interested to know, and I can only hope they've been permabanned.
  • WastedWasted Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10795Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Trevelyan+Nov 17 2003, 03:15 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trevelyan @ Nov 17 2003, 03:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I just pretend i am  a bot... i build the nearest object, i shoot the nearest foe... i dont leave the base unless given an order Via waypoint<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    LOL! I can so imagine you pretending to be a **** bot. "+use"ing the arms lab. Trying to enter an occupied comchair. Running into walls. Hilarious.

    But you know what? Sometimes when effective communication is only possible through the use of waypoints, menu voice messages ("Follow me", "I'm covering you", etc.) and flashlights, it's very satisfying in a feel-good kind of way when you achieve that degree of understanding between you and the other non-English-speaking player. Like in any other social situation where you finally understand what that foreign dude is saying ("Oh, right! I've got **** on my hair! Haha!")

    Though I've said that I get annoyed when I don't understand the language, I don't dislike the servers or the non-English-speaking communities any bit because of the language difference. I've had many more enjoyable games on those servers than on my local ones, mainly because there're more serious players on their pub servers. Stupid players and lousy gameplay annoy me more than having something rude said about my mother in Cantonese.

    And, ironically enough, it's on the non-English-speaking servers that my Marine teammates automatically weld me when I'm low on armour. Something I can seldom get my local English-speaking comrades to do even after repeated team_say "Weld me pls" or voicecommed "F***ing weld me will you!?" <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • rennexrennex Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2688Members
    I live in New York City so I get a decent ping to European servers in Germany, Sweden, even Israel. Fun times when someone starts talking on voice chat and I hear "Rennex' somewhere in there.

    "English please".
  • CaCaCaCa Join Date: 2003-06-12 Member: 17319Members
    I'm an Argentinian livin' in Argentina (nah,<i> really</i>?), so what we have here is spanish, but with all "tech talk" being in the original game's tongue.
    so we don't say "soldador"... we just go "welder por favor"... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    also, being next to Brazil, we get some portuguese, which sounds like a mix of italian-spanish-french-carnivalhappytalk... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • SDJasonSDJason Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16841Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Thansal+Nov 17 2003, 03:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Nov 17 2003, 03:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Rule of the day:
    Don't play on a server where you don't know the language.

    Second Rule:
    Stick to the language of the server.

    Yah, I am an american. I stay away from any server that isn't english (I tend to beable to understand most accents).

    I am also a constie so I get to play with alot of the Brits (and a few aussies) Regularly. Its fun and rather amusing.

    The American coulture tends to make fun of accents alot, thus many of us sorta assume that 'no one ACTUALY talks like that' simply b/c we figgure that it is just some one making fun of another country.

    Then you come on a server and your comm is an aussie. Its fun <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->


    As an interesting side note:
    The Aussies tend to be MUCH esier to understand then ANY one else. I am wondering if it has to do with the accent (Or possibly they just know how to use a mike <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Actually i enjoy playing on foreign language servers greatly.... sometimes

    I actually learned to a limited extent what comms/people were saying.. and actually diddnt look like a noob...

    I like to find one person who speaks english/the language on the server to tell them i dont speak it.. and that i will do whatever is told of me.. and i hope to be an asset


    I never comm.. and i usually defend base the first few times and just listen.... from there after a few hours i can become active to a limited amount.... though i can not speak.. i can understand the words...

    ~Jason

    Try it.. it can be quite fun (hated foreign language in school... but like this)
  • BirdyBirdy Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16825Members, Constellation
    I'm dutch and i usually play on british/american servers and sometimes korean when i'm up early <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Pretty fun to hear all kinds of languages if i can understand them but stuff like spanish,italian and french is scary <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • RokiyoRokiyo A.K.A. .::FeX::. Revenge Join Date: 2002-10-10 Member: 1471Members, Constellation
    Well in Portuguese servers they tend to say "welda-me", which is very much ingrish... A true translation would more likely be "solda-me".

    Seems they took the word "to weld", and conjugated it as if it was a Portuguese word, so "you weld" would be welda, and "-me" is pretty self-explanitory, resulting in "you weld me"...

    Keeping in mind that all the NS text is still only in English, it's only natural that slang would be created around the English names of these objects. In short: I don't think you are going to have any trouble if you stick purely to nouns, I think even the French would have an easy time understanding "gorge heal spray hive" or "marine welder armoury"
  • CxwfCxwf Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13168Members, Constellation
    Yes, thats sort of my tactic. I mostly stay quiet on servers not speaking my language (mostly I seem to find a large number of German servers somehow...), but when I have to talk...

    First of all I always type instead of using voicecom, which cuts down a bit on the confusion.

    And second I try to stick to labels that show up in game. Since they aren't translated in-game, I figure even the non-english speaking coms must know that whatever they call a welder is dropped by the button with the label "welder" on it, and that this Hive is labeled "Waste Hive" by the map maker, and so on.
  • Ashaman_JoeAshaman_Joe Join Date: 2003-11-11 Member: 22559Members, Constellation
    It might be helpful if someone made a little list of phrases in languages like

    They are comming to ___ from ___
    Need a RT/TF here Commander
    Could I have a ____
    Where to?
    Go to ____

    and, of course:
    WELD ME YOU ********* <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • AjurianAjurian Join Date: 2003-10-18 Member: 21753Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Thansal+Nov 17 2003, 03:04 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Nov 17 2003, 03:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> As an interesting side note:
    The Aussies tend to be MUCH esier to understand then ANY one else. I am wondering if it has to do with the accent (Or possibly they just know how to use a mike <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thats nice to hear. I've been playing on a couple of US servers and I was wondering if people could understand me. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Some of the syntax used is a little different and I've had to adjust my playing style, but overall its been pretty fun. If your stuck in a bit of a rut I'd reccomend giving other countries a go. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    As a side note, Im looking for more good overseas (ie, non-aussie) NS servers as Im trying to expand my experience (I amost stopped playing because my local servers started to suck).
  • MavericMaveric Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1101Members
    edited November 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Wasted+Nov 17 2003, 12:57 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wasted @ Nov 17 2003, 12:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm guessing most of you NS players on this forum hail from either the US, UK, or Australia where English is the lingua franca (or the <i>only</i> spoken language of your community), so you probably might not have experienced the same degree of multilingual gameplay as I have. Or have you?

    Have any of you played (or do you regularly play) on a non-English-speaking NS server, and what's your gameplay experience like (compared to if you play on a local server)? Given that NS is has a particularly strong emphasis on teamwork, has being unable to communicate with the other players on your team been a tangible handicap? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    *COUGH* CANADA TOO *COUGH* <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    However, it would certianly be interesting to play on a server where a different language is used... French and German would possibly be the easiest of the game servers language's to "figure out" while Japanese and the other middle-east/east asia/asian languages would be the most difficult...


    Try figuring out Russian, for instance. Rusian text characters are, for the most part for me, cryptical to try to decypher... and trying to figure out the [spoken] language isn't much easier. o.0

    [always know what "no" sounds/reads like in other languages. "NINE MAVERIC ... blah blah blah ... !" on text would be "NO MAVERIC ... blah blah blah... !" in German. while "No" in German is 9. therefore, do not assume "No" in one language means the same in every other laguage.]
  • ElderwyrmElderwyrm Join Date: 2003-04-07 Member: 15296Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Lt. Hendrickson+Nov 17 2003, 03:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lt. Hendrickson @ Nov 17 2003, 03:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I once went on a german server where half spoke english. It was simple, we played german speaking vs english all day. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I'd like to try that in DoD. Very authentic it would be.
  • HuntyHunty Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19244Members
    Hey wasted.Dont you have problems understanding the chinese dialect wanna bee gangsters who like to use mic and challenge people to gangfights at orchard road?Singapore servers that is.

    Its so amusing when a 13 year old is using the mic,shouting in broken dialect and trying to give me the impression that i should be frightnened because hes the "big brother" of some infamous gang...... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • RaVeRaVe Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17538Members
    Yep it does stink to play in a server where you barely or don't understand the language at all....thank god I know a bit of Cantonese if I have to play in the Singapore servers (never heard of HK servers....list any IPs?)

    But anyway, I guess we have to live with it until 1 language is required by international law....but that isn't really gonna happen :/

    BTW, ingame name?
  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    Yay, I live in BC canada, so I couldn't get a decent ping for a non english speaking server if I wanted to. Luckily my friends (the whole muticultural thing <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> ) have taught me swear words in about nine languages just incase, plus it's always fun to tell people they are an illegal immigrant in cantonise (<- prolly spelled horribly).

    On a totally unrelated note, do people from canada have a canadian accent? (only say something if you actually know canadians, the canadian accent you generally see on TV is more like an aboriginal accent, I dont know a single person who talks that way) Just curious about the international perspective on this, many canadians seem to think that candian english is the purest form of spoken english, and how would I know if it were true or not?
  • BuggyBuggy Join Date: 2003-11-08 Member: 22400Members, Constellation
    im dutch, but i always play on english servers

    1: less idiots
    2: better players (actually, not skillwise, cos we dutch just rule at games <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> but teamwork is not a common factor on our servers)

    hm, yeah, thats about it. luckily language is no problem at all for me
  • LichoLicho Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3858Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited November 2003
    I'm living in small european country (czech republic) with only few NS servers so I end up on foreign server very often..
    It's fun to play on servers of different european nations around, I have decent 60+- ping on them ... It's best if it's non-english server where people speak english, that way, it's simple to understand, people understand you more than brits or americans and no one makes fun of your accent. And yeah I can now say some spanninsh or finnish swear words too :-)

    Bad thing is that on multi-national serverss people tend to speak less, so If I wanna play "communication rich" game I must play on servers in our country or UK servers.
    Funny thing is that I always meet someone from my country on UK server, sometimes even 5-6 czechs on server like yo-clan, UK servers must be infested by foreigners :-)
  • StoatBringerStoatBringer Join Date: 2003-06-09 Member: 17144Members, Constellation
    I was on a German server once, and as I don't speak German I just kept quiet and tried to play sensibly.
    The voice and text chat was all in German, obviously.

    Then an American joined.

    Germans (in German): "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"
    Germans : "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"
    American: "WTH? Why aren't you speaking English?"
    Germans : "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"
    American: "Hey! Speak ENGLISH, ****!"
    German: "Dude, this is a German server. We're all German."
    *American disconnects*
  • StormyStormy Join Date: 2003-08-25 Member: 20196Members
    Wasted - May I congratulate you on your english, sir. It appears to be better than most of those for whom it is their native tongue.
  • DangerForceDangerForce Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23106Members
    well ;/ i am israeli... we have quiet a large comunity ,BUT...
    ther arnt players in the 2 servers we posses [useally[

    so the only sanctuary i have is UK <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
    it has better pings then USA for sure...
    or mayb in the far east its different.. nm

    just put into fevorites the server's that are 18 hours a day full...
    like "yo" or "medpack: or "aWa" or "barry" [these are mine btw]
  • BeRzErKeRBeRzErKeR Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13691Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Licho+Nov 18 2003, 01:02 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Licho @ Nov 18 2003, 01:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> And yeah I can now say some spanninsh or finnish swear words too :-) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yes, er, we Finnish people DO tend to swear quite a lot <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • JumbalayaJumbalaya Join Date: 2003-05-04 Member: 16044Members
    here in Italy we use english words like upgrade, shotgun, movement, sensory and structures in general, because these words are, as someone said, tech words

    and many of us created new verbs from english ones
    i.e.
    to welder -> weldare (io weldo, tu weldi, egli welda...)
    so if you want to be welded you should say "weldami/weldatemi" (if you say it to one player / to 2 or more players)

    ps: during a game in an italian server, if you want to say that marines are lame, just type "maringo danatzo" <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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