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I'm curious as to what determines the language of the news string when two players are playing with different language versions? I'm playing FitE with Telumar, the official TOAW 3 Germanic Language Expert [:D], playing Germans and me as Soviet. I can't remember the first turn but now on turn 2 the news is in German. It's not a huge issue as there's not a lot of critical information conveyed in the news thus far and I know varios cities will be falling for some time to come. I was just wondering how the language is determined

ORIGINAL: Okimaw

I'm curious as to what determines the language of the news string when two players are playing with different language versions? I'm playing FitE with Telumar, the official TOAW 3 Germanic Language Expert [:D], playing Germans and me as Soviet. I can't remember the first turn but now on turn 2 the news is in German. It's not a huge issue as there's not a lot of critical information conveyed in the news thus far and I know varios cities will be falling for some time to come. I was just wondering how the language is determined

Good that you've bee posting this. From my side i can report that the news string in the first turn has been in english, though i started the game in german. "My" strings are now in german, too.
Two weeks or so ago I've sent an e-mail to the TOAD guys, namely Marc, Ralph and Jamiam, that the news strings are not translated. I have no clue what causes this, but this is an issue that should be adressed.

Or in the event that it isn't addressed we can all become multilingual and TOAW 3 world can become the cyber tower of Babel [:D]

I always wanted to learn some polish if my tongue only wouldn't always krszwscwcznjstrzc....[:D]

The only Polish I've managed to learn is Cracow, Warsawa, and Lodz

Try the "FB - Komarow 1914" - there is a town with the most famous name, usually used to test proper Polish pronounciation - Szczebrzeszyn [;)].
There is an easy way to learn how to pronounce Lodz(£ódz') - something like "Woo(d) - J(ingle)" [:)].
Telumar - I was thinking that German pronounciation is strange, but simple until I tried to ask for Karlsruhe when I was hitch-hiking across Germany 20 years ago. When I had wrote the name down on a piece of paper, the people I had asked just said "aueueueue" [X(][8D].

ORIGINAL: Legun

a town with the most famous name [...] Szczebrzeszyn [;)].

LOL! [&o]

ORIGINAL: Legun

Telumar - I was thinking that German pronounciation is strange

It's the same with me and polish.. I have no clue how 'szcz' is pronounced..

ORIGINAL: Telumar
It's the same with me and polish.. I have no clue how 'szcz' is pronounced..

It's very easy to explain by German - just like "Schtsch" [:D]

ORIGINAL: Legun

ORIGINAL: Telumar
It's the same with me and polish.. I have no clue how 'szcz' is pronounced..

It's very easy to explain by German - just like "Schtsch" [:D]

Can human tongues even make those sounds?
[:D]

Yeah, I can[:D]
 
I think it would be pronounced as "sh" and "ch" in English.
 
Incidentally, for all those who've never been there, Cracow is a beautiful town, one of the few that wasn't destroyed during the war.  Cracow has an interesting castle and many other lovely historical buildings, mainly along the pedestrian zone that leads from the castle to the town square.  Poland is a great place to visit.  The prices are good and so is the beer, and the people are very friendly.  Warsaw has also done a great job of restoring the castle (really a palace) and the buildings in the "old town."  The Poles have done very well since the old CCCP disintegrated and things seem to be improving even more now that they've joined the EU. 

ORIGINAL: alaric99x

The Poles have done very well since the old CCCP disintegrated and things seem to be improving even more now that they've joined the EU.

Improving for the Poles- but not necessary for Poland. Most of them seem to have left.

Ok, we've all had a chuckle, including myself. So what about this news string translation thingy?

ORIGINAL: golden delicious

ORIGINAL: alaric99x

The Poles have done very well since the old CCCP disintegrated and things seem to be improving even more now that they've joined the EU.

Improving for the Poles- but not necessary for Poland. Most of them seem to have left.

Sorry Okimaw, it's not about string [:(][;)]

I don't thing they have, but just have an opportunity. Level of life is always a comparison and a relation. The young Poles going to Ireland and UK are replaced by Ukrainians in Poland now. I've just red that most English teachers in Eastern Poland are young Ukrainians. You can compare to East Germany - more then one million young people have left their "Heimat" and gone west. Schwedt is a town just near Polish border - it had 40.000 habitants in 1989 and it has 25.000 now [X(]. All these billions of Wessis' marks spent on infrastructure and all these well tested social institutions can't create such opportunities as these created by Western societies just stopping to reproduce [:o]. Of course - there is a problem of social structure, too. Just like in France - the social security which is given to parents creates the unemployment of their children[:(].

ORIGINAL: alaric99x

Incidentally, for all those who've never been there, Cracow is a beautiful town, one of the few that wasn't destroyed during the war.  Cracow has an interesting castle and many other lovely historical buildings, mainly along the pedestrian zone that leads from the castle to the town square.  Poland is a great place to visit.  The prices are good and so is the beer, and the people are very friendly.  Warsaw has also done a great job of restoring the castle (really a palace) and the buildings in the "old town."  The Poles have done very well since the old CCCP disintegrated and things seem to be improving even more now that they've joined the EU. 

Thanks[8D]

Sorry, Okimaw, for diverting another thread with travel babble.