CK2 Elit Commentarius #LXXXI - Lingua Deos

[Tufto]

This is an outrage. Where is the Middle Persian translation, huh? I cannot believe you are prioritising Latin over the superior Sassanid tongue.

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[Sirrobert1]

if these prove successful we might even go so far as translating the game into Swedish...

Sorry, but you lost all credibility at the end there. Why would anyone want to read Swedish?

 

[BlackPrince]

Classic PDX April Fool's joke, it's so gud that everyone wants it to be real.

 

[FifthMonarchy]

People called Romanes they go the house!?

 

[pcavalcanti]

This would actually be epic!!!! I want this now - thanks a lot for that >:

 

[Sophronius]

Can we mod this so that it's medieval Latin until about 1400 at which point, if you're playing a North Italian it switches to Neo-Latin? Can there be an event chain that settles the debates over whether Ciceronian Latin is the only vocabulary that's permitted in true Latin?

 

[.Me]

Salvete!

Today we will be talking a little bit more about our upcoming CKII translations plans. Until recently our four core languages of English, French, Spanish and German have been enough to cover most of our player base however we are seeing a pressing need for a fifth supported language: Latin.

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Latin is a language over a thousand years old with literally hundreds of speakers around the world. It is truly an incredible oversight that we have not already translated the game into the official language of the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

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Now we know exactly what you are thinking: ‘Why are you translating the game into contemporary Latin and not Medieval Latin?’ Believe me, this has been an ongoing discussion within the team for weeks, factions formed, friendships were lost but eventually it was decided that to reach the frankly vast community of Latin speakers around the globe it had to be contemporary Latin.

At over eight hundred thousand words translating the entirety of CK2 is no small feat, luckily we have acquired the help of several Latin experts who surprisingly had nothing more pressing to be doing. Assuming this translation is as popular as we imagine it will be we also have plans to translate the game into Medieval Hebrew and Ancient Norse, if these prove successful we might even go so far as translating the game into Swedish...

We hope you enjoy these changes, or should I say "Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem delendam esse".

Finally!... It's not the Italian translation I was hoping for, but still a step in that direction

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Come on, don't say that's an April fool, please

 

[King Anund]

I wish this wasn't a joke, also if it was in Medieval Latin.

 

[Voigt]

Latin in CK2.. is this an Rome 2 Tease for PDX Con?

 

[_Perun_]

Are you going to support the old church slavonic as well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic
You definetely should, considering the recent map updates. After this DD I have really high hopes to see the language implemented at some point so I can play a proper russian orthodox campaign!

 

[Stolen Rutters]

Classical Latin is horrible to write, putting a space between words wasn’t invented until the Carolingian era, not to mention minuscule! The most common phrases are routinely shortened to just the first letters, e.g. SPQR.

So I also agree, modern Latin is superior, totes FTW.

 

[Thrake]

Classical Latin is horrible to write, putting a space between words wasn’t invented until the Carolingian era, not to mention minuscule! The most common phrases are routinely shortened to just the first letters, e.g. SPQR.

So I also agree, modern Latin is superior, totes FTW.

So, it is Romans that invented SMS style writing?

 

[Specialist290]

I would totally pay money to see this become an actual thing.

 

[Seven Sulivin]

I'd use it. I don't speak Latin though.

 

[Science-Recon]

What about Klingon, the language of modern... scholars? Wouldn't that be a better choice than Latin?
Or is the lack of UTF8 support the only reason why klingon can't be implemented?

Why does Klingon need UTF8 support? There is no Klingon charset in UTF8.

 

[SgtSmuckers]

Forget Latin, Klingon, or any other language. What is needed today to draw in more people is the language of Memes. So get to translating everything, even the coding, into memes and rejoice in the heaps of bitcoins, USD, Euros, and possibly even North Korean Wons ye shall receive.

 

[Ciccillo Rre]

The fact is, I really want this.

 

[Captain Frakas]

Ok real talk: I get that this is an april fools joke but as a Latin student and enthusiast, I'd gladly pay $5 for Latin Language DLC.

Alas I fear that it might cost a bit more considering the huge work necessary to localize it in Latin, the limitations of the engine and the probably somewhat low number of consumers willing to buy it. If only we had kept Latin as the European language instead of the weird barbaric language that Angle of Saxon traders sullied the whole world that it would certainly had been the base language of CK2. Blame nationalists.

 

[puppet on a string]

i think the time would have been spent on a proper dev diary

 

[vukica]

Why does Klingon need UTF8 support? There is no Klingon charset in UTF8.

yes there is. and if there isn't it is extensible.