Re: Gibt's hier auch Inform-Autoren deutscher Adventures ?


22 Mar 95 16:39:57 GMT

In article <EKMAN.95Mar21134412@ruben.lysator.liu.se>, ekman@lysator.liu.se (Fredrik Ekman) writes:
> In article <8Xcq2c2w200w@alcyone.darkside.com> buffoon@alcyone.darkside.com (The Buffoon) writes:
>
> dr@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Dietrich Raisin) writes:
>
> > Würde mich sehr interessieren, da Graham mich unterstützen würde, eine deutsc
>
> I THINK WE ALL REGRET THE WAR, MANG.
>
> [And other equally intelligent stuff.]
>
> Don't be such an ass just because you cannot read a foreign language.
> Did it ever occur to you that people who are not fluent in English can
> feel very handicapped having to try to express things which they do not
> know how to write, trying to read words they cannot understand. (Not in
> any way trying to say that the message from Dietrich is written in
> German for any of those reasons.)
>
Quite. As it happens, I speak no German, but it was the American
I would rather have not understood.

>
> PS. In case you wondered, Dietrich was asking if it would be possible
> to develop Inform libraries to write German IF. German would seem a
> perfectly valid choice for writing such a message.

The answer, incidentally, is yes. It should be pretty straightforward
to make any translation of Inform; it's possible already to cleanly change
all the messages produced by the library, so given a German grammar
file to handle the input end...

Anyway, as indeed I said to Dietrich, I'll be very happy to provide any
necessary support from the Inform library.

Graham Nelson
Oxford, UK