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Eddepet

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Polish language in Guild Wars

From the Guild Wars website

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Guild Wars Language Support Grows 11 December 2006
Players who speak Polish will be happy to note that language support for Polish has been added to Guild Wars. Use the drop-down menu to select Polish from the 10 languages now offered for players! For all those who will be joining us for the first time, and for those for whom Polish is your language of choice: Witam w Guild Wars!

Now I am wondering, why are they adding the Polish language to Guild Wars and why not (just as an example :P) the Dutch Language. I believe there are much more Dutch people playing Guild Wars than Polish people. Not that I care that there is no Dutch language, English is fine for me, but I'm just wondering, why Polish...

12/11/06 11:44

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

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From the Guild Wars website

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I think there are alot of Polish ppl playing. I do know there is alot of Dutch ppl aswell. But I think Anet know how many players from different countries they have. ;)

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12/11/06 11:47

Eddepet

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Someone else who wants to share their opinion with us?

12/11/06 13:36

lord_gkar

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

they are just "polishing the game" lol bad joke

sometime it is about having the translator / programmer available, also am no linguist but doesn't the dutch language have weird symbols?

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12/11/06 13:39

Feanaro Anwarun

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Im sure that there are more dutchies then polish folks.. but maybe they think the dutch can manage.. :P

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12/11/06 13:46

The Sister

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

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they are just "polishing the game" lol bad joke

sometime it is about having the translator / programmer available, also am no linguist but doesn't the dutch language have weird symbols?

Lol, no more than german, french, spanish, and a lot of the other languages which already feature. Certainly nothing compared to Korean, Chinese scripts etc :)

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12/11/06 13:47

Feanaro Anwarun

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Dutch is very much like german.. as much as we hate that.

12/11/06 13:50

psychobunny

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Well, I am dutch and I have never had any problem with not having a dutch language in the game. also, dutch people are commonly known to speak proper English (all be that far from reality sometimes).

12/11/06 13:55

dragoniusx

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Because the Guild Wars skills just wouldnt sound right in dutch lmao.

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doesn't the dutch language have weird symbols?

Ehm, no... :S

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12/11/06 14:01

Leprecon

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

didnt read all the things ppl wrote here but imo there only should be english server.. there just isnt always enough ppl in guild wars for all the chapters for examble new chapter every half year -.- .. in chapter 7 there like isnt any ppl in canthan missions or tyrian.

12/11/06 14:05

great inferno

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

if a-net added a dutch lanquece ( hate that word -.- ) then they make 2 countries happy :P

since the netherlands and belgium speak the same langueqe, but speak it a bit else.

( same like english and american )

but gratz to all the polish players

12/11/06 14:13

Eddepet

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Maybe they did it because Polish people don't understand other languages very well, where Dutch people can understand many languages (school ftw?) quite well.

I say it again, I am Dutch and I don't mind playing an English game at all. It's even good for my English vocabulary ^^

12/11/06 14:27

Knight Of The Black Mantle

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Blah, I would hate dutch channels.
This english stuff keeps me sharp, I always have 95+% on english tests at school ;)
BTW, it sounds terrible:
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12/11/06 14:30

Leprecon

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

that language is WICKED XD ik ok ik ook :D (im finnish) :P

12/11/06 14:39

great inferno

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

ja ok ik speel ook liever in het engels, veel betere taal, ook al heb ik wel graag nederlands districten :P

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yes ok, i rather play with english lanquege to, sounds better, but i would like to see dutch districts :P

12/11/06 14:41

dikke hamster

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

I personally hate games with Dutch interfaces etc.
They always transelate it into some silly dutch words,
too litterally.
An example I found: NFS Underground1:P

12/11/06 14:50

great inferno

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

play burnout in dutch,
EA games needs some more 1337 programmers
when EA translates to dutch, im ashamed of it :S

but what would happen with GW

warrior = krijger -_-'
ranger = boogschutter
monk = monnik
mesmer= illusionist
assassin = ???

keep it english but give us benelux districts plz :P

12/11/06 15:00

DwarvenKing

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

well,there is about 16.1mln dutch(in Nederlands) and 38.2mln poles(in Poland),more than twice the population(and ANet only takes into the account number of people that actually live above the sea level :D )...
i am Polish myself,but trust me,u r not missing anything :D,translation is so bad u can't even use polish language anyway :D(like ie.totem axe is suppose to be a "drink" and if u dbl click it u will become drunk....)

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12/11/06 15:12

The Sister

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

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LOL, well perhaps they will look into correcting the mistakes if people point them out! Chuck an email in their direction :)

12/11/06 15:28

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

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they are just "polishing the game" lol bad joke

sometime it is about having the translator / programmer available, also am no linguist but doesn't the dutch language have weird symbols?

Actually they are all supported. The only european language that isn't fully supported is the hungarian: instead of our ő and ű the system only shows a space.

12/13/06 04:45

MasterRiven

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

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I'm not really one to point out idiotisms...but theres no such language as american. People in the USA speak English, they just have their own slang, which isn't even consistent across the country.

12/13/06 04:49

Feanaro Anwarun

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

I mostly dont like the american ''accents''
English is much better and sounds much better.
Well IMO anyway. ;-)

12/13/06 04:54

gyerekember

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

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I'm not really one to point out idiotisms...but theres no such language as american. People in the USA speak English, they just have their own slang, which isn't even consistent across the country.

Actually, american english and british english has a LOT of differences. Like, small differences (i.e. gray-grey, color-colour, diarrhea - diarrhoea, etc), or thesaurus differences (noone vs no-one), and even some differences in meaning too (like, first floor: in GB it's the second level of a building, in US it's the first...). British english is more strict, thus easier to learn - american is less strict, thus easier to speak.

12/13/06 05:02

Cross

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RE: Polish language in Guild Wars

Quit true there is not an official language called american. The english in the US differs from the english in england just as the other places that have english as their language also differ. In the US you have to take into account the various types of people that made up the country. We adopted several words into our mainstream language from their nationality. We have words that derived from French, German, Spanish, Cherokee, Sioux and so on. This mixture of the different types of people is also how most of the accents were founded.

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