Translate the Trolls!

[Chaddy]

How do you deceipher this language again? I know it's backwards and you drop the r's or something.

[Bobmuhthol]

<<I know it's backwards>>

No you don't.

[Ebondale]

O_o

Those bastards actually said something semi-sensical?

[Chaddy]

Originally posted by Ebondale
O_o

Those bastards actually said something semi-sensical?

They always do. Just have to translate.

[Bobmuhthol]

There is a way to translate the troll messages into English, and they have some funny phrases (there was one about some anti-GS site being for losers), but I totally forget how it's done.

[Vixen]

I cheated and used a translator thingy. Was on CC's website, but I just checked it and its down so... I thought for once I was going to get to be usefull...

[Fission]

They'll say crazy stuff like 'Aephir is god,' and how they're going to fart on you, among others. They have special lines they save just for elves, too.

[Terminator X]

Created by Ian Klimon (Aephir) 06/19/97

Troll Language

The trolls now speak in a "language" that sounds gutteral but semi-coherent, here are guidelines as to how to handle this "language," and the conversion from English to "Troll."

The troll language should at all times be gutteral and close to incomprehensible to the human ear. And trolls speak (and write, if you can call it that) from right to left, so just flop your sentences around. Reverse letter order within the words. Proper nouns are left as is, except for dropping the "e." Note that when you end up with two like vowels next to each other, use a ' to separate them.

Alphabet

A - Replace with AR or RA
B - Replace with BR
C - Delete
D - As is
E - Replace with a '
F - As is
G - Replace with GR or leave as G
H - Replace with GH
I - Replace with IR or RI
J - Move to end of word
K - Replace with R'K, KR or leave as K
L - Replace with LAR, LOR, or LUR
M - Replace with MR, MOR or MRI
N - As is
O - As is
P - Replace with R'P or PR
Q - Delete
R - Replace with R'R or leave as R
S - Replace with SR, R'S or leave as S
T - As is
U - Replace with RU or GHU
V - Replace with VR or R'V
W - Replace with WR, R'W or leave as W
X - Delete
Y - Delete
Z - As is

For example:

A troll prince says, "Kneel before Gron, ruler Grr'Tok."

Thank you
you thank
oru tgharnr'k
ruo r'knarght

Leave none alive
alive none leave
evila enon evael
'r'virlurar 'non 'vrar'lur

I will snap you in two
two in you snap will I
owt ni uoy pans lliw i
or'w nir ghuo r'parnr's lurlorirr'w ir

I will break all your bones
bones your all break will I
senob ruoy lla kearb lliw i
r's'nobr r'rghuo lurlorar r'k'arr'rbr larlorirwr ir

Welcome
emoclew
'morolur'wr

Help me
me help
em pleh
'mri r'plor'gh

Hello, how are you?
you are how, hello
uoy era woh, olleh
ghuo 'r'rar r'wogh, olarlur'gh

night good
thgin doog
tghgrirn doaogh

would be:

A troll prince says, "Grr'Tok r'rlorur, Gron rofbr lirnr'k."

The quick brown fox jumped over the tall fence.

would be:

'N'f larlor'rat 'ght r'r'vro d'r'pmuj of nworbr kiru 'ght.

[Skeeter]

that's silly. if they wrote right to left, they wouldn't speak right to left.

Guess the text based game kind of throws it off.