Sumpta Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 What I really don't understand, though, is why they went for German when there's not one German server :?. Versus the existing Dutch, Finnish and Norwegian servers... Aber, es is sehr wichtig und gut fremde Sprachen zu unterstÃÆÃâÃâützen. Or something like that *grin* (tranlation: But, it's very important and good to support foreign languages). So well done, Jagex. Swedish... Oops, I stand corrected. In any case, maybe they took German because the Germans are well-known for their lack of knowledge of English. And yes, Dutch and German are related languages, with similar vocabularies. The one can usually sort of understand the other when speaking. The grammar and spelling on the other hand... But English and German are also related languages, so everybody here should recognise parts of Wiederherstellungstrank :D (Trank, drink-drank-drunk, see?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwrm22 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Isn't Dutch and German related in a way? I've made many Dutch/German friends through gaming communities and they say the German language can be understood by the Dutch or vice-versa. They may not be fully literate/fluent in one of the two languages, but at least they can understand each other. :-k english: world map dutch: wereld kaart german: weltkarte dont say german = dutch! i understand it cuz i had it on school... but my bro doesnt... anyway german is mutch harder to understand then english... ^^ click my sig for my lesser ranging guide ^^jwrm22: 4816th > 99 cooking 100% f2p !1172 total! + 140mil in items.i dont play anymore... i think rs is ruined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pati Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 cool, I am going to use this servers to practice my german (my worst subject in school) However I still ask myself: why German? jwrm22: it's wereldkaart not wereld kaart Computers will never be above humans because we made them.That's what monkeys used to say about us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthu Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Isn't Dutch and German related in a way? I've made many Dutch/German friends through gaming communities and they say the German language can be understood by the Dutch or vice-versa. They may not be fully literate/fluent in one of the two languages, but at least they can understand each other. :-k english: world map dutch: wereld kaart german: weltkarte dont say german = dutch! i understand it cuz i had it on school... but my bro doesnt... anyway german is mutch harder to understand then english... Finnish: Maailmankartta and for me, they all sound the same... dutch, german and english, that is 99+ all 23rd March 2012 - 2496 total 13th June 2012.9000+ dragon drops! Including draconic visage, d chains, d spears, d2h, d claws, d meds, d legs, d skirts... d bones, d hides :)?I want jagex to put resource dungeons and dungeoneering skill doors to dungeoneering floors so I can dungeon and get dungeoneering xp while I dg so I don't have to dg to get dg exp, but I can dg while I dg :)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shade1234 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Maybe this will help me get a better grade in my German GCSE Hopefully more languages will follow \ Thanks Yaff2 for the sig^,^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlanders Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Dutch and german are related as much as french and spanish are. Related, but not enough for someone to understand both totally by knowing only one of the two. If they make german servers, they could aswell make dutch ones.. Anyway, many things are possible :roll: 2480+ total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siim Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Das ist Geil. Obwohl ich denke das es mehr Spielern aus Holland gibt als aus Deutschland. And I aint german, I'm Estonian. (H) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luker2d2 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 this is good runescape is really started to expand itself Kiss me, i'm part Irish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babyshambles Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 What I really don't understand, though, is why they went for German when there's not one German server :?. Versus the existing Dutch, Finnish and Norwegian servers... Aber, es is sehr wichtig und gut fremde Sprachen zu unterstÃÆÃâÃâützen. Or something like that *grin* (tranlation: But, it's very important and good to support foreign languages). So well done, Jagex. Maybe it's something to do with German being the most spoken language in mainland Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwrm22 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Isn't Dutch and German related in a way? I've made many Dutch/German friends through gaming communities and they say the German language can be understood by the Dutch or vice-versa. They may not be fully literate/fluent in one of the two languages, but at least they can understand each other. :-k english: world map dutch: wereld kaart german: weltkarte dont say german = dutch! i understand it cuz i had it on school... but my bro doesnt... anyway german is mutch harder to understand then english... Finnish: Maailmankartta and for me, they all sound the same... dutch, german and english, that is i took a easy one :D i cant translate super restore potion... but the gramar is verry annoing in german... ^^ click my sig for my lesser ranging guide ^^jwrm22: 4816th > 99 cooking 100% f2p !1172 total! + 140mil in items.i dont play anymore... i think rs is ruined Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharockslayer Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Achtung! Hier kommt Tztok-Jad :D Id love to Pick some Kohl : In a few months... ill be waiting Interrested in joining the cabbagy madness? Click here to go to our forums, and say hi ^^lol one of the biggest pvp updates of the year, and tip it is discussing granite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblade986 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Jagex has been busy today aparantly... Appeal Maitence, Barbarian Assult quick lvup, No pets in Sorceress's Garden, now German... don't worry, you are going to "hell" anyway. wanna race to see who gets there first?Officially reached 100 Combat at 1:33PM EST, June 14, 2007First Dragon Drop: Dragon Chain (Dust Devils) @ 10:48PM EST, July 14, 2008, lv113 combat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kewl_Sabre Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Apparently I'm the only one who sees the potential downside to this. Sure, the game will expand. But what will this do to the community? You may or may not believe this, but Runescape has a fairly connected community. When big things happen players hear about it, and without Jagex telling them. For example the SS protests. The word spread via the forums and through players like wildfire. Same with the 6/6/06 massacre. The thing is, this community has always had the strong connector of a single language. Sure, there are Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and other languages in the game. But the vast majority of players speak English. When you take out that vital connection the whole community will be shot to heck. From the sounds of it we're now going to have several communities that will each play on their own language server. We'll basically be dealing with several different games. This might not be that bad, but it's just vaguely sad. I remember the days when it was a single server and everyone knew everyone. Now we're looking at a game where you won't even be able to speak to a large amount of players. The community in RS2 has just been completely destroyed over the years for progress. That's life, but it's very sad for those of us who remember the old days. Ah well. Spreken ze deutsch? :XD: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazurizi Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hmm, Why launch the different game languages first in German? Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are more Dutch players than Germans... Just a thought.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithkannon Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 i mean, the game is supposed to play when ur 13 years or older, and u should know english by than...i think its a bit stupid idea German kids are supposed to be fluent in English by the time there 13? Seriously? I do German at school, I have been doing for 1 and a half years and will do untill the end of this (school) year. I wanted to continue into GCSE, but my upper school dropped the subject. :wall: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbjdude91 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Man I wish I could be on one of those servers right now.. First of all, Dutch is a dialect of German, so they can understand each other pretty easily (just like American english and UK english). German is the trade language for the stock market of Europe, so it would make sense to put the game in German first. Also, I'd assume that most German players already knew English because they have to learn it by age 10, with a bill up that might make it so that they know it by age 7. So essentially, it wouldn't ruin the economy or community or anything because they should know English already. I can see the logic in this move by making the game into German. Off topic: German is a simpler language than English is. It's just that people speaking english can have a tough time learning the new rules of that language. For example: Spielst du Gitarre nicht gern? (Do you not like playing guitar?) only has 5 words, but the English kind of stretches it out just a little bit. There are better examples than that, but that's an example. This is my original signature. You can't touch this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made0f12une Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 The opuses concrete that starts in few months accessibly will be made all players. Looks like there will be an open beta for German RS in a few months! ...stupid free translators xD ^^ClicK^^"I backed my car into a cop car the other dayWell he just drove off sometimes life's ok...Alright already we'll all float onAlright don't worry we'll all float on" - Isaac BrockDays Hunting:4 - Kingly Imps Caught:2Money Earned: 4.5-5m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam007 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hmm, Why launch the different game languages first in German? Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are more Dutch players than Germans... Just a thought.. On the flip side of things, that only means there's a huge untapped German market. Dutch players seem to already be playing rs, so there's less of a potential market for jagex to reach if they did release a dutch version. Dutch players are already playing rs - german players aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumpta Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Lets not forget about the German relation to the Polish, Austrian, Belgian languages. Most European languages (english, french, spanish, etc) come from the Latin origin. This is starting to become and interesting thread on linguistics 8-) Umm, yeah, well, I happen to be a linguist and you're a bit off, lol. Actually, I've been reading a lot of linguistic rubbish on this thread. (Dutch is NOT a "dialect" of German.) As it happens, most of the European languages (Finnish being an oddity) and some eastern and Asian languages stem from Indo-European. They all share a lot of traits, because they come from one "mother" language. Indo-European as itself does not exist as a language (anymore, there are no traces of it, which is why it's also called proto-Indo-European). Within Indo-European, there are many other language families, who share even more traits amongst each other. The most well-known examples of such families are the Romance languages (Latin, French, Spanish, Italian,...) and the Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish,...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauke Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Man I wish I could be on one of those servers right now.. First of all, Dutch is a dialect of German, Eh, excuse me? It most certainly is NOT a dialect. That's complete nonsense. The languages are sometimes a bit similar, but Dutch is most definately not a dialect. I can't imagine why someone (even German ppl) would want to play in an other language than English. I would certainly not want to play a Dutch (Yes, I'm Dutch) version of the game. It just ruins the "feeling" of the game. Oh well, at least it means we get less German talk on the English version. Twitter ||| Google+ ||| Facebook ||| LinkedIn ||| My very interesting weblog about science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauke Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Hmm, Why launch the different game languages first in German? Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are more Dutch players than Germans... Just a thought.. On the flip side of things, that only means there's a huge untapped German market. Dutch players seem to already be playing rs, so there's less of a potential market for jagex to reach if they did release a dutch version. Dutch players are already playing rs - german players aren't. Also, in Holland there is a good education in English. In Germany there are less people that speak English well. Twitter ||| Google+ ||| Facebook ||| LinkedIn ||| My very interesting weblog about science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElCusco Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 People from Holland and Belgium and so on can understand German good, even thought it's not 100% similar to their own language, right? It's the same with people from Sweden/Norway/Denmark. As I said in another thread about this: To be honest, I've seen hundreds of people speaking swedish/norweigan/finnish/dannish but only max 50 people speaking any kind of german/dutch.. Rank 10 Mining in Sweden :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthu Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 People from Holland and Belgium and so on can understand German good, even thought it's not 100% similar to their own language, right? It's the same with people from Sweden/Norway/Denmark. As I said in another thread about this: To be honest, I've seen hundreds of people speaking swedish/norweigan/finnish/dannish but only max 50 people speaking any kind of german/dutch.. Why I see all these maarwijhebbeners everyday on amsterdam servers, then? Do I have special goggles? :D (Yes, dutch ones, no germans though... ) 99+ all 23rd March 2012 - 2496 total 13th June 2012.9000+ dragon drops! Including draconic visage, d chains, d spears, d2h, d claws, d meds, d legs, d skirts... d bones, d hides :)?I want jagex to put resource dungeons and dungeoneering skill doors to dungeoneering floors so I can dungeon and get dungeoneering xp while I dg so I don't have to dg to get dg exp, but I can dg while I dg :)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUMINATOR17 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 :shock: AMAZING :shock: although i cant say that im surprised about this or anything...maybe just alittle surprised that it never happened sooner? CLICK - 770th to 99 SLAYER 2/4/08 - 204th to 99 Summoning 7/1/08 CLICK[Hide=List of Drops That I haven't updated in Years but want to keep in my Sig anyways...]VISAGE DROP - 12/06/073 Duo Sara Hilts, 3 Duo Arma Hilts, 2 Trio Arma Hilts.Dark Bows: (11) Dragon Boots: (50!)Whip Drops: (42!!!) Dragon Drops: (90+!!!!!) 2 D CHAINS!, 3 D Axe, 8 D meds, 7 left halfs, 7 D legs, 6 skirts, 8 Spears[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurens Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 i mean, the game is supposed to play when ur 13 years or older, and u should know english by than...i think its a bit stupid idea German kids are supposed to be fluent in English by the time there 13? Seriously? I do German at school, I have been doing for 1 and a half years and will do untill the end of this (school) year. I wanted to continue into GCSE, but my upper school dropped the subject. :wall: i didnt said u should be speaking english fluent.. but what i mean is that u atleast should know the basics , and so i am dutch, and in my class i have the best results in english because i play games where i talk english if u play a game and tallk everyday english, u will learn the language very quick , so english is easy to learn when u know the basics and when u talk it often making all other languages in 1 game isnt smart in my opinion :ohnoes: Apparently none of you can multiply correctly....300cats x 100deaths= 3,000deaths 3,000deaths=900,000gp^^WTF?^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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