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11 hours ago, Geonovast said:

If Kerbals speak reversed Spanish, why is all the writing on the parts in English?

So players can read them, since a lot more players speak English than Spanish, I would imagine.

(Though it's not exclusively English-- I've seen some Russian turn up in spots.)

The stuff written on the parts is just a bunch of pixels, and I seriously doubt anyone would bother to try to localize that-- it would be a whole lot of work for little return in terms of playability, since they're there basically just for "atmosphere" and there's not really anything anywhere in the game where you actually need to read what's written on a part in order to know what to do or how to use it.  It's more "artwork" than "language", really.

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1 hour ago, Snark said:

The stuff written on the parts is just a bunch of pixels, and I seriously doubt anyone would bother to try to localize that

Well, I've seen some who's translating whole texts on parts with other localizations. They said it's easier to work on than translating the career contracts, and there were people who wanted to read those as well.

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On 1/28/2018 at 12:59 PM, Vanamonde said:

It is indeed Spanish, but played backwards. 

And if I reversed the kerbal audio (which is reverse spanish), I would get Spanish, and be able to translate that to English?

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1 hour ago, Vanamonde said:

Si. Or, I mean, "Is." 

And now I will go through every bit of Kerbal audio (excluding the Chatterer mod), reverse it, and run it through Google Translate to hear it in English. It'll probably just be random words as SQUAD wouldn't have thought that someone will do that.

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On 29/01/2018 at 6:29 AM, kerbiloid said:

Tomorrow will be a full moon.

Night. Full moon. A person is reading backwards the strange speech of uncommon green creatures...

Don't forget to do this on a crossroads. And sacrifice a Kerbal.

Not only a full moon. Also a blue moon, a blood moon and a super moon. 

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On 1/28/2018 at 6:33 PM, Snark said:

So players can read them, since a lot more players speak English than Spanish, I would imagine.

(Though it's not exclusively English-- I've seen some Russian turn up in spots.)

The stuff written on the parts is just a bunch of pixels, and I seriously doubt anyone would bother to try to localize that-- it would be a whole lot of work for little return in terms of playability, since they're there basically just for "atmosphere" and there's not really anything anywhere in the game where you actually need to read what's written on a part in order to know what to do or how to use it.  It's more "artwork" than "language", really.

 

I've actually found it useful for checking the orientation of certain particularly important parts: Probe cores and docking ports, particularly, where it's really easy to accidentally invert your controls.

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3 hours ago, foamyesque said:

I've actually found it useful for checking the orientation of certain particularly important parts: Probe cores and docking ports, particularly, where it's really easy to accidentally invert your controls.

Sure.  But again, it's art, not language, in that case.  I'm willing to bet that even someone who doesn't speak English can at least tell whether it's right-side-up or not.  :)

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9 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

¡¿And left-to-right?!

Most likely, yes.  Most of the common languages still use a lot of the same letters, so they'd be able to at least tell which direction the word is going.  Even native speakers of Japanese or Chinese probably at least know what an English word looks like.

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4 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

Most of the common languages still use a lot of the same letters

I mean the paired question and exclamation marks. ¡¿ and ?!

If revert a Spanish ¿question? or ¡exclamation! , Kerbal one will still have them both.

 

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