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This is just a thought be a nice thing to have built into sc2
Maybe just a translator that will translate words that the designers have put in. From the join screen you should be able to see the map and rules. But I find myself in situations where ill go play a korean and when I select my race he'll go ZERG?????. Now we cant communicate, however I then wonder if I might have joined a game which was specifically no zergs or something.
If blizzard could just have a little database of words such as zerg, protoss, terran, map names, unit names, no, yes, that would automatically translate to your set language when you played, communicating with people who speak different languages could make the game much better. It would also promote people playing with people in different countries and a greater world wide community.
Haha just a thought personly i would like it in BW too...heh
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that would actually kind of cool, being able to type in something in inglish and have it show up on their screen in korean, though it would take a long time to get something like that working I suppose, there are a lot of words you can possibly say  hopefully they fix the thing where you go join a game in the melee catagory and you see a whole bunch of random characters because you can't support korean characters on your computer.
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I don't think it'll be necessary if they add an auto-matchup function a la War3. You'd see race, map, rules, and basically whatever you need to know without you needing to communicate with your opponent in any way
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SCII will have full Korean language support in the US version. Just learn Korean.
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On August 23 2007 13:50 LonelyMargarita wrote:
SCII will have full Korean language support in the US version. Just learn Korean.
I don't think many people will be willing to learn Korean just for that -_-
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Like a tiny built-in babelfish....that would be very cool. Its fun to play people from different countries and cultures.
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Lol have you ever tried to translate Korean through babelfish though? It would read like:
you: Hi, want to play a game?
them: Birds howl on the long hatchet.
you: huh?
them: gl hf
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It will have anonymous match making. Maybe they'll give you options to vs people of specific race only, much like the option to 'thumbs down' certain maps etc.
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Haha well anyways all i was asking was like for us to be able to know what a game title says somewhat would be nice
"you: Hi, want to play a game?
them: Birds howl on the long hatchet.
you: huh?
them: gl hf"-luddite
Well that is more interesting to look at then random kor text
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It'd be cool if they had automatic translations of certain phrases, they have it in Final Fantasy 11 and it's a really awesome feature. It just has certain phrases in green instead of normal white text indicating it's an automatically translated phrase to whatever region you're in (I think in FF11 it's from English to Chinese or something? I completely forgot what country whores that game hardcore). This is the first idea that I fully agree with on these forums in a LONG time.
edit: here's a poll just to see what other people think, maybe if we get enough of a positive response blizzard could actually pay attention to it?
Poll: Automatic Translations?
(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
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Rather than automatic translations, you can have a combo box with selections of commonly used phrases like "hi", "ready?", "go", "thanks", "sorry", "hold on", etc.
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On August 23 2007 14:16 prOxi.swAMi wrote:
Maybe they'll give you options to vs people of specific race only.
Ya. Then I won't have to play vs white people anymore.
+ Show Spoiler +
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doing it is hard
google translator babel all of that have shitty translations
what can blizzard do
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Name a game where they have anything close to this. Even simple programs like instant messengers dont have this.
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Waste of time. I doubt most people care about this "problem" and the few that do can just stop being lazy and learn a few Korean characters. Ask some Korean guy to make a "Essential Starcraft-Korean-Language Guide" or something.
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On August 23 2007 16:00 fuglyfrog wrote:
Waste of time. I doubt most people care about this "problem" and the few that do can just stop being lazy and learn a few Korean characters. Ask some Korean guy to make a "Essential Starcraft-Korean-Language Guide" or something.
Lol i would like to but im sorry if i cant read @#%^!@#!!!! or 1:1#@!$!!!!!! haha ill be happy if they give the us verson kor text support. Anyways its not like im saying i command them to i mean it's blizzard im sure they have the time to do it with a patch like they randomly add shiet anyways, its not liek im asking for a full translation of every word just some common words hell like porably less then 15 words max to like kor to eng to spanish to german to any random shit im sure they can do that full translations are hard but just a few words im sure they can cover that.Anyways the only thing that is a waste of time is your attitude and my typos.
(proably less of a waste of time then complaing to blizzard on how every unit looks and tell them to throw out months(not really months for 1 unit but it does take alot of work to get an art drawing into something like maya or mudbox things like that) of art graphics animation and modeling work becuase you dont like a weapon or something)
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On August 23 2007 15:46 LonelyMargarita wrote:Show nested quote +On August 23 2007 14:16 prOxi.swAMi wrote:
Maybe they'll give you options to vs people of specific race only. Ya. Then I won't have to play vs white people anymore. + Show Spoiler +
rofl
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On August 23 2007 15:15 infinity21 wrote:
Rather than automatic translations, you can have a combo box with selections of commonly used phrases like "hi", "ready?", "go", "thanks", "sorry", "hold on", etc.
I like that.
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I think its a good idea After you have used it for some time you will learn the words in korean too just by using them.
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On August 23 2007 20:35 DrainX wrote:I think its a good idea After you have used it for some time you will learn the words in korean too just by using them.
Doesn't seem to me like you get to see the korean words at all...it's not a bad idea, but it'd be better if koreans just learnt english, and blizzard wouldn't support other languages (especially not french and german, they're annoying)
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It's not possible. Computers can't translate language.
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On August 23 2007 22:58 BlackStar wrote:
It's not possible. Computers can't translate language.
Just wait a few more years
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On August 23 2007 21:04 aseq wrote:Show nested quote +On August 23 2007 20:35 DrainX wrote:I think its a good idea After you have used it for some time you will learn the words in korean too just by using them. Doesn't seem to me like you get to see the korean words at all...it's not a bad idea, but it'd be better if koreans just learnt english, and blizzard wouldn't support other languages (especially not french and german, they're annoying)
Yeah... I wouldnt support it if it was implemented like that. I would want to see the message in korean before I sent it if there was translation ._. Like you have a separate inputline thats optional. If you write something there and press enter your message is translated to korean and pasted in your main inputline.
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On August 23 2007 22:58 BlackStar wrote:
It's not possible. Computers can't translate language.
Haha its not asking for like a translation of a sentance just some base words like yes no hold on and their variations when typed in say kor and sent to a eng user it will auto choose to put it in eng. computers can do that pretty much they just blow at making a sentence.
Anyways it helps both ends i mean i dont have a korean keyset and i dont plan on getting one so even if i can read korean no way in hell i can talk to them
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On August 23 2007 13:23 IzzyCraft wrote:
This is just a thought be a nice thing to have built into sc2
Maybe just a translator that will translate words that the designers have put in. From the join screen you should be able to see the map and rules. But I find myself in situations where ill go play a korean and when I select my race he'll go ZERG?????. Now we cant communicate, however I then wonder if I might have joined a game which was specifically no zergs or something.
If blizzard could just have a little database of words such as zerg, protoss, terran, map names, unit names, no, yes, that would automatically translate to your set language when you played, communicating with people who speak different languages could make the game much better. It would also promote people playing with people in different countries and a greater world wide community.
Haha just a thought personly i would like it in BW too...heh
Hmm now this post looks familiar...
Looks like is a direct copy and paste of a post I made a month ago
I've actually thought about this issue a little more as well since making that post and I think the best way to implement this would be with a text based file that users could modify themselves. This way, blizzard would be able to launch the game with a few words that would be translated over, but the community could get involved and within a few months we could have every second word translated, making communication a lot easier with people of all different languages.
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On August 23 2007 15:46 LonelyMargarita wrote:Show nested quote +On August 23 2007 14:16 prOxi.swAMi wrote:
Maybe they\'ll give you options to vs people of specific race only. Ya. Then I won\'t have to play vs white people anymore. + Show Spoiler +
Even though, it made me SIRL 
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On August 23 2007 23:09 Konni wrote:
It's not possible. Computers can't translate language.
Just wait a few more years[/QUOTE]
Nooo, release Starcraft II when it's done, not when we have software that can translate language.
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On August 24 2007 02:37 Fen wrote:Show nested quote +On August 23 2007 13:23 IzzyCraft wrote:
This is just a thought be a nice thing to have built into sc2
Maybe just a translator that will translate words that the designers have put in. From the join screen you should be able to see the map and rules. But I find myself in situations where ill go play a korean and when I select my race he'll go ZERG?????. Now we cant communicate, however I then wonder if I might have joined a game which was specifically no zergs or something.
If blizzard could just have a little database of words such as zerg, protoss, terran, map names, unit names, no, yes, that would automatically translate to your set language when you played, communicating with people who speak different languages could make the game much better. It would also promote people playing with people in different countries and a greater world wide community.
Haha just a thought personly i would like it in BW too...heh Hmm now this post looks familiar... Looks like is a direct copy and paste of a post I made a month ago I've actually thought about this issue a little more as well since making that post and I think the best way to implement this would be with a text based file that users could modify themselves. This way, blizzard would be able to launch the game with a few words that would be translated over, but the community could get involved and within a few months we could have every second word translated, making communication a lot easier with people of all different languages.
Lol because that is a paste of a old comment on the blizzard fourms about helping out geting kor text to show up properly haha. i bet its older then your comment
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On August 24 2007 04:22 IzzyCraft wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2007 02:37 Fen wrote:On August 23 2007 13:23 IzzyCraft wrote:
This is just a thought be a nice thing to have built into sc2
Maybe just a translator that will translate words that the designers have put in. From the join screen you should be able to see the map and rules. But I find myself in situations where ill go play a korean and when I select my race he'll go ZERG?????. Now we cant communicate, however I then wonder if I might have joined a game which was specifically no zergs or something.
If blizzard could just have a little database of words such as zerg, protoss, terran, map names, unit names, no, yes, that would automatically translate to your set language when you played, communicating with people who speak different languages could make the game much better. It would also promote people playing with people in different countries and a greater world wide community.
Haha just a thought personly i would like it in BW too...heh Hmm now this post looks familiar... Looks like is a direct copy and paste of a post I made a month ago I've actually thought about this issue a little more as well since making that post and I think the best way to implement this would be with a text based file that users could modify themselves. This way, blizzard would be able to launch the game with a few words that would be translated over, but the community could get involved and within a few months we could have every second word translated, making communication a lot easier with people of all different languages. Lol because that is a paste of a old comment on the blizzard fourms about helping out geting kor text to show up properly haha. i bet its older then your comment
.. Smart man, and who posted this on the bliizard forums I wonder???? Go find that post, and specifically the name of the poster and get back to me.
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Obviously they can only translate a few words. Doing more than that requires just as much time as making the game and it will probably still suck (like babblefish) since Blizzard are game-makers not translators.
But only few words like "hi", "yes", "no", "ready", "wait", "go" might work. BUT... are they really necessary? Who in the world that has a computer doesn't know those words in english already? Even those who don't know any english still understands yes or no or go.
The other way around I can see a purpose. If koreans or germans HAVE to write their own language it might be hard for the rest of the world. Well, remove germans from that. I believe most people knows what "Ja" and "Nein" means. If koreans write in hangul, then ok it's impossible to understand. But making a whole translation thing just because of that is ridicilous. It won't be a big problem since we will have different servers. In wc3, europeans play on europe and koreans play on asia. It is not like in BW where everyone plays on all servers. And since SC2 will most likely use automatchmaking which equals people play where the lag is the lowest, it won't be a problem I think.
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