#felvidek

[cardo-de-comer]

1 hour Ahriman

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

central slavs and their silly medieval/early modern media

[rosmaryne]

FELVIDEK (dev. Jozef Pavelka, Vlado Ganaj) ↳ In Felvidek, a JRPG set in 15th century Slovakia, you embrace the role of an alcoholic knight Pavol.

[safffarts]

art study inspired by felvidek... can't stop thinking about that game

[axl-ion]

Idk if the other translations for Felvidek (game) also do something with the language, but in the Slovak language version of Felvidek, nobility (Jozef, Adam) and church members (Matej) use proper Slovak, their sentences are grammatically correct, here's the town leader for example:

With Jozef even using Hungarian in his speech, which IS historically accurate for the area, we're in the 15th century, the area that's currently part of Slovakia was Nothern Hungary back then and a lot of nobles were Hungarians, so it wouldn't be out the ordinary for Jozef to speak both common (in this case would actually be the dialect of the area as modern standard Slovak wouldn't emerge until the early 19th century) and Hungarian, with also Latin added on. Here's an example of him talking in Hungarian:

Meanwhile the common folks and other characters of lower status (Pavol etc.) use Šariš dialect:

But some interactions with the environment use a combination of proper Slovak and dialect:

In this example the first half of the sentence is dialect, the 2nd part is proper.

And then we have Ida who uses words frequently used by Romani people, specifically in this case the phrase Dig more (Oh look/Look there) and gádžu (meaning non-Roma):

And the Husits, since they are Czech are speaking Czech:

Which I think is absolutely beautiful. Again, I am wondering how the dialogue plays in other languages, if they actually do change up the language. I could imagine a world where in the English dialogue, nobility uses Queen's English meanwhile the common folk have an implied Cockney accent or use some sort of street English or something, but I also understand that would be pretty hard to do.

But am curious how it would look like

Language quirks addition - Matej failing Czech

[constantinnen]

[shapelytimber]

Paula, dost ye still love me at all ?

But tell me not a lie

[PRINT] - [COMMISSION]

Hello hi Felvidek is a great game that you should play <3

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Fun fact, while we played the game we tried to see everything.... Alas we apparently missed an *entire* recrutable character- realizing after the fact you were not really supposed to play 90% of the game with only Pavol and Matej was really funny tho fjdjdj the true bromance run <3

Is it one of my most bisexual illustration, or one of the most misogynistic hmmmm...... I am supporting Paula in the divorce btw make no mistake jfkfkfk

PS : Matej truly was a character that was pure catnip for me- like it's not even fair you can't show me this funny little monk and expect me not to love him dearly

[h2g0r]

knights can be moe too