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Post by Lantis on Jan 7, 2004 0:08:51 GMT -5
Yeah, so, I know it may have already been brought up, but... you're thoughts?
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Post by AtlanteanAscendant on Jan 7, 2004 1:19:18 GMT -5
my initial reaction was "ugh...dear god no, if there's any justice in this world...it's something more intelligent than l33t sp3@k"... then i put some more thought into it, and then figured a real techno-language would go beyond just raping some symbols for english letters and come across as something a bit more advanced than techno-ebonics.
Techno-can would be something beyond just a keyboard language, something one techie gibbers at another not just on the computer screen, but in person as well. figure an obvious combination of the dominant language (English, Spanish, perhaps some Dragonese if you're really sick in the head), slang and techie terms for various devices and items and even whole groups of people, monsters so on and so forth.
Now, would this have been developed before or after the coming of the rifts? and how recognizable would it be to someone who knew it before the rifts. i mean we assume english is english is english, right? but in general, terms and words we use today wouldnt make much sense to someone from 100 years back, 200 or more. Phrases, slang, and so on would mutate it beyond something anyone else would have once known it as...
technocan ... leetspeak? no. technocan...a genuine computer language? possibly, depends on how connected those geeks were before or after the rifts.
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Post by Slag on Jan 8, 2004 9:56:48 GMT -5
I think it evolved from pree-Rifts as a combo of technical, engineering, science, and computer terms mixed in with hacker/geek slang and maybe (just maybe) some monty python quotes.
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Post by AtlanteanAscendant on Jan 11, 2004 5:36:43 GMT -5
actually, ive thought a lot about language in general when it comes to Rifts and though its easier to simply assume that the languages they talk with arent all that different from the ones we use now, but HOW different are the languages? seriously.
Take Spanish for instance. According to an old teacher of mine, there are four or five different variations of actual Spanish. The first is actually spoken in Spain (you know, that country over there in europe for those of us with american public edumacations). Then there's a version spoken in Mexico, and the bastardized version that (i think) was combined with portuguese and whatever else they were sepaking in puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil and so on. And the garbage that cropped up here in the states (which is marginally different on both coasts because Mex and PRico influence both differently). Throw a couple hundred years onto that and events and things that we really didnt have names for into the mix, and the advent of a new language into the system altogether (Dragonese, or even Gobbley) and we have something that no one today is going to recognize.
English is probably much the same. (Or American to be more specific) and with creatures from different planes popping up at regular intervals and villages and towns rising and falling faster than a DnD module, Rifts American is probably much different than 20th/21st century English/American (mebbe even a different accent, love to see hgow you justify playing a char with a brooklyn or new england accent in a rifts game).
Techno-Can? Base language is most likely similar, but the regions probably use different dialects altogether. Then again, 'swhy ive always allowed people to learn more than one language in my rifts games at character creation. usually one or two extra, because otherwise youre completely lost outside youre own little town.
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