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Old June 1st, 2006, 01:52 AM

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I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...
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Old June 1st, 2006, 04:36 AM
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I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...
Yep, I remember that too. It got me quite enthusiastic with Swedish. Especially because the www.illwinter.com/dom2/dom2progress.htm (I still remember the URL ) had some of the changes in Swedish. I never became good in it, though, but I blame that on one exceptionally bad teacher, and a whole year in which my only bit of Swedish was the lone course he held.

Speaking about the beta: I'd except that there would be few native English speakers correcting the grammar. I doubt best grades from Finnish schools, even if the schools are said to be very good, can even come close to lifetime of English when descriptions have to be corrected to a spesific style.
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Old June 1st, 2006, 08:09 PM

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Speaking about the beta: I'd except that there would be few native English speakers correcting the grammar. I doubt best grades from Finnish schools, even if the schools are said to be very good, can even come close to lifetime of English when descriptions have to be corrected to a spesific style.
I remember that certain respectable (natively-english-speaking?) modder was using finnish editor to correct english
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Old June 2nd, 2006, 02:56 AM
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I remember that certain respectable (natively-english-speaking?) modder was using finnish editor to correct english
You mean Zen and the CB mod?

Actually, it was not so much a matter of language skills as organizational ones. The reason I took on the task of documenting the CB mod was that I wanted to use it, but I also wanted to know what had been done with the mod just by looking at the mod files, and Zen's formatting and organization in the original mod files and readmes was simply abysmal. It was a fairly easy task to sort those out into a more readable form, and also allowed QM and others to take it up where Zen left off.

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* Tribal poptypes -> Wolf, bear, deer, lion tribes.

Anyone speculate what these Tribal Poptypes are? Some kind of new Amazons, except they're Beastmasters? Here's to hoping Darr makes the long journey from TBS to Turn-Based-Strategy.
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My bet is that they are tribes with some local flavour.
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My guess is that they're stone age humans from the early era.
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I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...

mmm...thats odd..why is that a req. to be a beta tester? The IW guys understand everything in english.
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I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...
Heh. If I knew, I could be a beta-tester,I would too study Swedish twice as hard. Just think what kind of a booster that would be. OMG, this is the probably the most efficient way to study a language for a game enthusiastic. Another way would be that Illwinter would release the game only in Swedish language. I would become a fluent speaker in two weeks, when trying the comprehend those descriptions.
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