The Tongues AddOn

A while ago I started using Lore. As I started working with it, I started to see some of the limitations. I decided to re-write my own version of it, and try to remove some of those limitations. Currently, Tongues doesn't do localization. In a conversation with Rufftran I learned that he may be retiring Lore since Tongues is doing well. I still need to talk to him about merging projects.

• NOTE: Aurorablade is now helping to maintain the addon. I am waiting to get all the code for tongues 2 work before i do anything major.

What it does:

• It allows languages, dialects, affects on outgoing messages.

• It allows filters on incoming and outgoing messages.

• It has Lore-style Interpreters.

• It provides the ability to Mass Translate for: targetted player, translators (people added to the user's translator list),party,guild, raid, officer, battleground, raid warning/alert.

• Auto-translation of other Tongues users' say, yell, party, guild, officer, raid, battleground and raid warning/alert messages.

• Uses Blizzard languages when it can (ie Orcs speaking Gutterspeak will not be understood by Undead unless the listener has Tongues, Undead speaking Gutterspeak will be understood if both they listener have Tongues.)

• Provide a quick select for picking which language to speak. (So you don't have to open up the menu every time.)

• Automatic Language learning (different languages have different difficulties for difficult factions, races, and classes.)

• Allows you to speak for controlable pets with /petspeak or /ps

What it doesn't do:

• It won't ever translate cross-faction.

Why not? Aside from the EULA, which prohibits this,the other reason for this is because of the method that Blizzard uses to generate its languages. For instance, a Human speaking Common being heard by the Horde may see a word like "hir" this could mean "the" or it could be "toc" - table of contents - it depends on the context, which you don't know because all the words are encrypted. The algorithm to figure this out would have to be extraordinarily complex.

• It won't ever translate languages from or to users not using this AddOn.

What it will do:

• Provide an option for dynamic Dialect drifting.

• Miscellanious code streamlining.

Known Bugs:

• None known at this time.