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On 30 Jul 2015 06:34:34 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:22:01 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
>>  Hopefully you're reading
>
>Yeah, I'm still lurking here :-)

Good to see you're around :-)

>>  I might manage to muddle through a group quest so long as I don't
>>  have to talk; I can at least understand most of the LFM type messages
>>  in world chat. 
>> 
>>  Problem is, how to get into a group in the first place! What's the
>>  German equivalent of "inv pls"?
>
>"inv pls" or "inv bitte" would probably work :-) Many of the common english
>abbreviations used in WoW (and other online multiplayer games I suspect) are
>also used or at least understood by German speaking players.

Ah good; I'd noticed a lot of "LFM" and the like, which I assume means
nothing at all in German, but wasn't sure if "inv" would be
understood, so it seemed a good plan to ask first ;-)

>>  Google suggests "laden Sie bitte" but I've no idea if that's even correct
>>  grammar for what I mean, nor if the correct form is what people actually
>>  use
>
>It's closer to the second than the first :-) but would definitelay be
>undestood.  The main thing people would find strange about it is the "Sie"
>because that is the form used for people you are on a last name basis (the
>polite form) that english is totally lacking. In the context of wow, where
>everyone is on a first name/character name basis people always use "Du".

Yep, I remembered about the formal stuff from my old schooldays
(everything we learned then was in the formal version, so I'll have
the fun of trying to convert to "Du" if I actually do try and say
anything... :-))

>"invite me please" would be "lad(e) mich bitte ein" but back when I played
>it would often have been shortened to "laden bitte" (roughly "inv pls") or
>even just "laden" ("inv").

Ah cool, I'd wondered if it could be shortened that way but again,
didn't want to end up completely incomprehensible, so thought best to
ask! I'll go with "laden bitte" then, I think; I always prefer to add
"please" when asking for invites in English as politeness never hurts
:-)

>While in the early days there would have been quite a bit of friendly small
>talk while grouping for quests together, during my stint back in Panda
>(turtle farming anyone?) and for the free WoD week, I found that people in
>the same area often just ninja invited others in the same region that were
>obviously farming the same mobs or on the same quest and never spoke a word.
>So you should be fine as a silent player, or if anyone starts chatting and
>you don't understand what they are saying (or understand but are not sure
>how to respond in German a brief "sorry, I only speak English" is unlikely
>to get you kicked from the group :-)

Yes, I'm hoping "ich spreche nicht gut Deutsch" will work well enough
:-) I'm thinking this realm may be more chatty than live, but I guess
I'll find out; certainly people are much more friendly in the world
chat as I read it (well, the bits I can understand!)

>What server did you end up being on?

http://www.classic-wow.org/ - pretty fun for remembering the old days,
a few minor bugs but nothing gamebreaking so far, phew. Although I
wish all the readable notes you get given in quests were translated to
English like the rest of the client; it's hard going trying to
translate anything more than about a sentence long, so I just gave up
reading those hehe.

Thanks for the help, appreciated! Or should I say: Danke schoen!
(Won't make a fool of myself by trying to expand that any further ;-))