While you all are bored today, I wanted to share the new toy I made. It's a java applet which simulates words/names from the various races by analyzing the letter combinations in samples of them. Where there are dictionaries available, I just used a bunch of words from those. For the others, like halflings and gnomes I used samples of names that have been used for them, so those ones aren't as strong. Goblin and merelew also aren't intended to be very serious, just fun little bits. :)

http://www.gridaksma.com/tsarenzi/words.html

Let me know what you think. Does it do a good job of capturing the feel of the different languages? Some other ideas for samples, for the weaker languages or other languages which may have enough?

Thanks and enjoy!

Tsarenzi

This is awesome.


~ GMBasilisc ~

I really like the idea of learning languages. Right now, I can listen to them..but since I'm not psychic, it's almost a useless enchante. I can never hear the entire conversation unless I go around with Aura of Tongues up all the time (That' so unpractical, the vocals version is annoying and carrying around a stringed instrument is a pain given unpredictable weather).

I'd like vocals to matter too, I think it makes sense for it to be vocals and scholarship and tdp's.


- Terra

<<Sounds like an absolutely great idea.

Unfortunately the page doesn't load for me in Chrome or Firefox. :(

-- Player of Niieth
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I've never had any success with troubleshooting why Java applets aren't working for people... but if it happens to help, I put an executable jar version up at:

http://www.gridaksma.com/tsarenzi/words.zip

If not.. sorry!

Tsarenzi

>I've discovered Java doesn't work yet on Chrome for Mac, although I can't fathom why it won't work in Firefox (where I know Java works fine), nor Safari.

I use Firefox on an XP machine and the Java worked fine for me.

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~Faih

Also a mac user. I can't get it to load in either Safari or Firefox. I managed to get the .jar to run via the terminal. The following errors were generated in a the console log.

2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:676)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:317)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:280)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
2/26/10 8:13:01 AM [0x0-0xba0ba].com.apple.JarLauncher[1730] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:375)

~Hunter Hanryu
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>>Firefox for Vista. Worked fine. You people do have java installed, right?

Yep. As I said, Java applets work fine for me in Firefox usually. I tested this specifically on the chess applet from the Wikipedia article on Java applets, just to be sure.

Although I don't know how to tell if I've got the latest version...

-- Player of Niieth