Your Opinion On Orcish Blah

[Stephensj 327]

You didn't even say a lot of those words as they're supposed to be said.

 

Ug mi am da high zhaman rusk ob klan dom und mi wull une duy tyke da zity ob Vekaro!"

 

Should be

 

Ug. Mi am da high zhaman rusk ob klan Dom agh (agh is and) mi wull ash dey tayke da goi ob Vekaro!

It's not wrong actually. Something said in common can be said in multiple different ways in Blah.

 

Also, keep it. If people can't spend the time to learn the language I don't want to see them playing a Orc.

[LPT 771]

Mi liek uruk blah. mi think if dat change uruk hab nub special kwulitiez... 

 

Seriously as an Orc when the Blah was actually more difficult than it is today I learned it in a day of playing an Orc. t's really not difficult

[Demotheus 651]

It's not wrong actually. Something said in common can be said in multiple different ways in Blah.

 

Also, keep it. If people can't spend the time to learn the language I don't want to see them playing a Orc.

It actually was wrong there. 

 

Several of the words he used such as and, one, etc. are words with blah translations in the wiki for the blah. And is always Agh. one is always ash.

[monkeypoacher 8055]

Oddly enough I don't have all that much trouble understanding it.

I think it could be considered to lessen it a little.

[Stephensj 327]

It actually was wrong there. 

 

Several of the words he used such as and, one, etc. are words with blah translations in the wiki for the blah. And is always Agh. one is always ash.

No its actually not. It's not required for one to use those as long as the word is demonized.

 

Stop trying to be a grammar nazi.

[Burkester 1247]

I like the idea of having blah still not getting rid of it all together because it set the orcs differently. Just like the different dialects that the elves, humans, and dwarves have. The problem I have is of the words that can be said in so many different ways. Obviously we should keep things like Ug, Latz, Klomp as that is real orc culture but I don't think it does good for the orcs to have twenty different ways to say one word. I have already spoken with my clan and I will start to make our blah easier to understand and see how it does. If anyone rps with some of the orcs with the changed blah please leave some feedback here. :)

 

It seems overall the ones voting for the regular blah to stay are current orcs or old orcs. While the ones who want change are those who haven't played orcs before or have had very little rp with them. I believe this is one of the turn offs that have made the orcish player base so small. Who wants to need to translate everything someone says? 

[Catarrh 720]

The reason the Blah is hard is because the majority of people are lazy readers. The Blah (strange as this may sound) actually requires you to exercise basic reading skills. The Blah is mostly phonetic spelling, and therefore relies on the old rule they taught you all when you were learning to read as little kids. Sound it out. The problem is that most people don't even think to look at the letters making up a word. They try to look at the word as a whole, and expect it to instantly pop into their heads like in standard English. Burke, your example with the word castle really doesn't say much. Regardless of how many different ways you spell it, "Castle," "Kazzul," "Kazel," etc. all make basically the same sound when read aloud(When one keeps in mind that most orcs can't pronounce the letter "s" and replace them with z's). That's the main principle behind the Blah. The word must sound phonetically close to the original spelling when read out-loud. Some people may make their Blah thicker than it should be, but if you know what sound letters are supposed to make, you know the Blah. Pardon my bluntness, but the only thing stopping people from getting the Blah is either the wrong approach to it or just out-right laziness.

[Cyndikate 2303]

The blah isn't hard to understand. Heck. I understood the blah on my first day on LOTC.

It takes a bit of getting used to.

[Austin 697]

no

[The Cleaning Crew 571]

 

Leave it alone. It's both easy to understand for anyone who's played an orc for more than a day and difficult to understand for someone who doesn't spend any time around them. It's perfect.

 

If you're having trouble figuring out what orcs are saying, just sound out the words in your head. It usually sounds similar, give or take a few made-up words.

[hellfiazz 879]

I learnt blah as I made my first Orc. Literally an hour after I started playing Buubztik, he had the thickest blah there was. I'm pretty proud of that. 

 

pls dont take muh blah.

[_pok_ 1768]

yeah, honestly I said what I said on page two but that was just kinda a reason against it if it had to change. But I do not want to see a change because I think the Blah is pretty easy and most people I've spoken to about it agree.

[Lvke 1000]

leave the damn blah. it's easy to understand, read, and write. just because people are lazy fucks doesnt mean you should change **** that doesnt need changing.

 

also, demo, kindly go shove those orcish grammar lessons somewhere dark and moist and painful, because no orc says things the same way, and every orc has variations to da blah. fuckin nu'orkz.

[Senda 472]

Among the fondest memories I have of this server, is the time spent (as a human) building a new Orkish Capitol towards the end of Asulon.

The initial time was tough. As a human, having to learn to understand the Ork and his behavior/speech was.. tricky. And not without incident.

And that is /exactly/ as it should be.

Keep the blah. It adds so much. On a very intuitive level, it simply makes an ork.. an ork.

And to those who find it "too much effort": You are an Ork. Harden the <censored> up and act like one.

It makes for a more immersive world.. and quality roleplay stems from that.

[Demotheus 651]

leave the damn blah. it's easy to understand, read, and write. just because people are lazy fucks doesnt mean you should change **** that doesnt need changing.

 

also, demo, kindly go shove those orcish grammar lessons somewhere dark and moist and painful, because no orc says things the same way, and every orc has variations to da blah. fuckin nu'orkz.

http://wiki.lordofthecraft.net/Blah

 

this has been around for a looong time. There are certain words that are part of the actual orcish language, such as Lat, Ug, Agh, Ash, Dub, Gruk, bub'hosh, etc. etc.

 

Please kindly stop being rude and inflammatory, it doesn't make any argument you make look more impressive.