![]() ![]() ![]() The industry today is much like a group of separate nations, each speaking its own tongue. For example, if you can speak, read and/or think in German, you can better discern the nuances and subtleties of a work written in German or better understand what a German speaker is really saying. Heinlein was talking about human, spoken languages, and how we communicate and exchange knowledge with each other across culture and spoken-word barriers. LANGUAGES: While we have a kinda-sorta working pidgin patois for MMOGs, we have not yet hit on a language that is easily understood. I wrote about this issue briefly in a prior column (Volume 10, Issue 5):Ģ. One of the insanely great things about being part of a new frontier is that you get to make up the language that goes with it. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858). Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. ![]()
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