Reflection on Re: "Poll On Game Engines"

The hardest part, of course, would be to come up with some sort of structure. Without a proper structure, we'd get lost completely.
 
Actualy a structure already exists. In the WC movie, at the end when the Kilrathi are talking you can see subtitles in Kilrathi being translated into english.

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A good soldier is not the one who die for his country, it's the one who makes his enemy die for his.
Gen. Patton
 
WTF are you talking about DeathHead?

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A good soldier is not the one who die for his country, it's the one who makes his enemy die for his.
Gen. Patton
 
Earthworm: They didn't _actually_ translate Kilrathi into English
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. They just displayed some jumbled up little signs and then replaced them with English letters
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. The Kilrathi were speaking gibberish
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Sure it was Kilrathi.
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It could be used as the Kilrathi language if anyone wants to make the alphabet. The words in KS manual, WC novels are Kilrathi, so the language in the movie is also Kilrathi.

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A good soldier is not the one who die for his country, it's the one who makes his enemy die for his.
Gen. Patton
 
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Really
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? Can you tell what the Kilrathi in the movie actually said? And I don't mean the meaning. I mean, can you determine what Killie words they used?
 
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Of course not.
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But it was better to have words in Kilrathi than have the kities talking in English.

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A good soldier is not the one who die for his country, it's the one who makes his enemy die for his.
Gen. Patton
 
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So how would a completly new species comunicate with each other? I'm sure it wouldn't be English.

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A good soldier is not the one who die for his country, it's the one who makes his enemy die for his.
Gen. Patton
 
What? He's name is in the KS manual.

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A good soldier is not the one who die for his country, it's the one who makes his enemy die for his.
Gen. Patton
 
Earthworm: Well, of course it's better than English... I mean... Um... You know what I mean
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. But either way, the Movie Kilrathi is of no use in this case.
 
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Ummm...ok??? Why is this post still here and why is it getting so many replies??? ;-S
 
And what a fun drift it has been
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. A nice, stimulating discussion of the Killie language. Come to think of it, the original topic only lasted five or six posts
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. But it's your own fault, AzrialX. Ya shouldna 'ave mentioned the Dreadnoughts
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Kalkrath: Oh, too bad. I guess you didn't read my post well enough. The Kilrathi do _not_ have an alphabet. They have a set of signs, where each is a single syntactic element (a word). And _that's_ why it would be so bloody hard to create their writing system. I mean, you could just decide that, say, | || |, means Skabak or whatever else comes to mind, but if you want to make the language learnable, you'd have to give it proper structure. That means that you'd have to explain why | || | means Skabak.
 
I can make a chart of all the Kilrathi symbols we see... but I need somebody with knowledge of font-creation.

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Ben "Bandit" Lesnick
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The Wing Commander CIC
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There already is a Kilrathi font. It looks like the letters we see in the Prophecy intro. You can download it here at the CIC.

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A good soldier is not the one who die for his country, it's the one who makes his enemy die for his.
Gen. Patton
 
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