Help, translation

True story: back in 2005-6 I was very fond of the game World of Warcraft, it was "the" game at the time. My class of choice was the healer, so, every group needs healers, and i went places. Since the class that gets clobbered the most from monsters is the warrior, i met lots of guys playing warriors. Made a good friend with an Arab guy, a medicine student from Riyadh,,of all people. We were inseparable, being the tank(warrior)-healer the best class combination, so we became very good friends, skype-ing away for hours on end also while not playing. For fun we gave eachother names: he called me barbarian (me being christian from europe), i called him camel-boy, he being arab descendant from a desert tribe, still making weekend picnics in the desert, sleeping in goatskin tents etc. It was fun..until our guild boss learned about the thing and we got both kicked out for racism ☺☺

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Originally Posted by BULIGO

True story: back in 2005-6 I was very fond of the game World of Warcraft, it was "the" game at the time. My class of choice was the healer, so, every group needs healers, and i went places. Since the class that gets clobbered the most from monsters is the warrior, i met lots of guys playing warriors. Made a good friend with an Arab guy, a medicine student from Riyadh,,of all people. We were inseparable, being the tank(warrior)-healer the best class combination, so we became very good friends, skype-ing away for hours on end also while not playing. For fun we gave eachother names: he called me barbarian (me being christian from europe), i called him camel-boy, he being arab descendant from a desert tribe, still making weekend picnics in the desert, sleeping in goatskin tents etc. It was fun..until our guild boss learned about the thing and we got both kicked out for racism ☺☺

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LOL! XD:facepalm: Did you still talk to him afterwards?

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Originally Posted by EllunaHellen

LOL! XD:facepalm: Did you still talk to him afterwards?

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Oh yes, he became a doctor, thus having less and less time for playing, until he stopped alltogether. He moved to London, started working there and found a girlfriend. I couldnt compete with her *wink* and we eventually parted ways.

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Originally Posted by BULIGO

Oh yes, he became a doctor, thus having less and less time for playing, until he stopped alltogether. He moved to London, started working there and found a girlfriend. I couldnt compete with her *wink* and we eventually parted ways.

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Glad he did well for himself :)

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Originally Posted by BULIGO

True story: back in 2005-6 I was very fond of the game World of Warcraft, it was "the" game at the time. My class of choice was the healer, so, every group needs healers, and i went places. Since the class that gets clobbered the most from monsters is the warrior, i met lots of guys playing warriors. Made a good friend with an Arab guy, a medicine student from Riyadh,,of all people. We were inseparable, being the tank(warrior)-healer the best class combination, so we became very good friends, skype-ing away for hours on end also while not playing. For fun we gave eachother names: he called me barbarian (me being christian from europe), i called him camel-boy, he being arab descendant from a desert tribe, still making weekend picnics in the desert, sleeping in goatskin tents etc. It was fun..until our guild boss learned about the thing and we got both kicked out for racism ☺☺

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XD

Yeah, some people chose to feel offended in behalf of others; even if those others aren't feeling offended at all. Oh well. Thanks for sharing. :)

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Originally Posted by Chloebelle89

Someone just joined my group and I cannot understand them. Is there a way I can translate to them besides having to google look up every time?

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105 million people have German as their mother tongue. I'm from Vienna / Austria. "My" German is completely different from Swiss German or German, which is spoken in Germany. If a Swiss asked me for help in his own language, I would have massive problems understanding him.


Automatic translations usually only create misunderstandings and are a disaster.
I know that from some websites. It is mostly illegible and completely confused.

Why do you automatically believe that someone needs help when he comes to your group?
Maybe the person just wanted to have tools ...

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Originally Posted by Elfriede

105 million people have German as their mother tongue. I'm from Vienna / Austria. "My" German is completely different from Swiss German or German, which is spoken in Germany. If a Swiss asked me for help in his own language, I would have massive problems understanding him.

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We do have the same written language, though; which is standard German. There are only a few minor differences (e.g. we do not use the letter ß in Switzerland. In fact, I do not even have it on my keyboard. Had to look it up on wikipedia and copy-paste it xD). The spoken dialects are a different story of course (on a sidenote; did you know that Swiss German only has one past tense (past perfect)?). Although I daresay that I personally understand quite a lot (or maybe most even; that includes Swiss German dialects, dialects from Germany and what I've heard from Austria so far).