Wednesday, December 23, 2009  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon  No
comments:        Monday, December 21, 2009  The Warcraft Pidgin
No comments: I am quite interested in languages and the other
day I came to think about the language that has evolved in WoW,
and probably any other game that consists of a vast community of
player. Well any with a small community of players too I'd
guess, but those aren't much noticed. I often get to hear, when
talking about WoW to non-WoW players, that it sounds like we're
talking a whole nother language. So many words are used, that
are strange to the non-player, that they can't make sense of the
meaning of the discussion. Now this creating of new words would
only occur of course if the player is of another mother tongue
than the game, like in my case - I am swedish but play a game of
english language. This means that when I communicate with other
swedish speakers about the game, I will often use terms that are
a mish-mash between the english word and a swedish form.  I
suppose this fo