How To Speak Kerbal! With Translator!

[Javster]

Only problem is, it doesn't sound right if you reverse the reversed, because of phonetic rules.

[TYRT]

I've added to my bookmarks:kiss:

[Javster]

Only problem is phonetics: the written reversed work pronounced doesn't sound like the real word played backwards in some cases

[Supersonicclank]

This is great! But yes, I have to agree with the others in that the Phonetic Alphabet is a bit "not correct" but otherwise, awesome!

[Jijonbreaker]

I wasn't even aware kerbals ever spoke. I always wondered what their language was.

[Rickenbacker]

This has potential. I'm going to start typing my rocket names in kerbish using this format.

I'll just name all my rockets "Soida" for "goodbye", then. Saves time .

[Starwaster]

I wasn't even aware kerbals ever spoke. I always wondered what their language was.

Yeah, they speak. Haven't you seen any of the official trailers?

[Special Agent Sigvan]

That sounds like: Klop lopklop, attakbop awowoaoaoklop.

I propose they speak Canadian English Kangaroo Rabbit, reversed and spoken in Egyptian Hieroglyphs and converted into Tree Speak.

That sounds right.

[Tanner Rawlings]

sorry havent been to this in awhile, phonetics will be changed (recommend some words please) also hence the "*" stating that its a place holder

Edited June 11, 2014 by Tanner Rawlings

[Delicious]

Dude, my original language is Spanish and I didn't noticed it was spoken by Kerbals. I'll be editing this and adding words.

[Kozak]

You forgot the most important word of all.... Bacon.

[ImJake]

So sentence structure is reversed as well as individual words?

[Tanner Rawlings]

So sentence structure is reversed as well as individual words?

no just the spelling of the words, as in aloh (hola), it can be described as

English: 1234 123 123456

Kerbal: 4321 321 654321

[zekes]

I'd still prefer a mixture of German and English.

That's what I do for my KSP videos... because of it i've gotten this:

Zokesia is recongnized as the only Kerbals to speak Reverse-German instead of Reverse-Spanish.

[Tanner Rawlings]

Please suggest anything that could improve the kerbal font, i tried to make it so that a kerbal could write it with a space suit on and just drawing it with their fists

[GigaG]

For "numbers", you should have "zero", as it is used in launch countdowns-

Zero in Spanish seems to be "cero", so in Kerbish it should be "orec."

[Musil]

Kerbal speech is Spanish played backwards. If you were to download one of Squad's trailers (like the mission control one, or the one where they revealed they got onto Steam) and reverse it, the voices would (in theory) be understandable to anyone who speaks Spanish.

Ah, that makes sense. Good to see that my language somehow has... eh... influenced KSP in some way. Ecalp em!

EDIT: why did this thread get revived?

[RainDreamer]

Ah, that makes sense. Good to see that my language somehow has... eh... influenced KSP in some way. Ecalp em!

EDIT: why did this thread get revived?

OP is asking for kerbal font suggestion.

I think just a mirrored Spanish font works. Although the Kerbal officially use English writing.

[Hobbes Novakoff]

I always have gone with the explanation that kOS gives: Kerbalese is spoken completely differently from English, but is written the same.

[CG_Kerbin]

Kerbal speak is like spanish i dint know that

[Speijker]

Really like the font! Definitely using it in a next flag design.

One thing I'd improve though, is the length of the horizontal bar between the different elements/squiggles: it takes up about twice the amount of space (on my screen at least) to write Kerbich, compared to the latin alphabet.

That said; Kerbals aren't particularly well known for efficiency (especially concerning rocket-designs).

[Tanner Rawlings]

Really like the font! Definitely using it in a next flag design.

One thing I'd improve though, is the length of the horizontal bar between the different elements/squiggles: it takes up about twice the amount of space (on my screen at least) to write Kerbich, compared to the latin alphabet.

That said; Kerbals aren't particularly well known for efficiency (especially concerning rocket-designs).

yea i was going for something alien, i know people will say that "IRL this happens..." and sometimes its good but i like the sorta cartoony feel of the symbols

[nosirrbro]

I have a name idae for the languange, Loñapse, or possibly Hsilgne, but its less pronouncable and makes less sense.

[Engineer of Stuff]

How do you cuss in Kerbal? (jk, jk. But you can answer if you want)

[AlextheBodacious]

Zonula--Oh Noes!

Naviseepet--they're leaving!

Gurnermurt Nemshnsh--Seriosly, it turned out great!

Mudecai noneeinaho seedaweshnsh--It's Awesome!

Sash Omnipotently--Leave that Moron behind!

(phonetics from the .16 teaser trailer)