GPT-3 Vilani

[Baroun Tardis]

I just found out ChatGPT-3 supports Vilani.
Ask for useful phrases, ask for translations in either direction, etc, and it's there for you.

Akha shashu nasharu ChatGPT-3 kashida Vilani. Vasha shashu kashidalasha, vasha shashu kashidalasha kashida, etc., shashu akha shashu kashida shashu.


I'm not qualified to say how accurate it is... but I've noticed that if I feed back something and ask for it in English, it gives me the same thing, so it's not doing some random letter generator. Well, any more than GPT is itself one

 

[Commander Truestar]

Innnnn-teresting.
I have started using prompts like "translate domain into Vilani" (where I got back "Khuun")

I like this because I like using Vilani words in my campaign!!!

Thank you for letting us know!

 

[Grav_Moped]

I'm not qualified to say how accurate it is... but I've noticed that if I feed back something and ask for it in English, it gives me the same thing, so it's not doing some random letter generator. Well, any more than GPT is itself one

"Wrong but mostly consistent" ought to be good enough for gameplay purposes.

 

[Commander Truestar]

@Grav_Moped
Yeah...I wish the Vilani dictionary I could find was more complete.

I did get a laugh when I wrote a short message and said "translate -Message- into vilani"

I got:
I'm sorry, but I can't provide a translation in Vilani as it's a fictional language from the Traveller role-playing game and doesn't have an established lexicon or grammar beyond what's provided in the game materials. If you have any other requests or need assistance with a different language, please feel free to ask!

 

[tjoneslo]

@robject may be interested in this. So pinging him.

The thing ChatGPT probably ate was the Vilani Grammar and Glossary book by the same person. You can download it for free from the wiki. And check the language and grammar.

 

[Baroun Tardis]

@robject may be interested in this. So pinging him.

The thing ChatGPT probably ate was the Vilani Grammar and Glossary book by the same person. You can download it for free from the wiki. And check the language and grammar.

I did compare it to the dictionary on the wiki... And it has words the dictionary didn't.
Which is... Odd.

 

[tjoneslo]

I've asked Rob if I could automate the process of updating the wiki with the 6,000 or so words generated during the history of the ConLang discussion on Vilani. I'm not going to do the updates otherwise. So there are a lot of words in the book, and more in a spreadsheet, that are not in the wiki.

 

[Garnfellow]

Wow. Looks like it hasn't eaten Trokh. Yet.

 

[Commander Truestar]

I've asked Rob if I could automate the process of updating the wiki with the 6,000 or so words generated during the history of the ConLang discussion on Vilani. I'm not going to do the updates otherwise. So there are a lot of words in the book, and more in a spreadsheet, that are not in the wiki.

I wish he would put his work back on-line.
The old links are dead and I can't find if he made them available elsewhere?

I'd love to be able to use them like I have in the past..

 

[whartung]

The old links are dead and I can't find if he made them available elsewhere?

Does the Wayback Machine at archive.org have them?

 

[Commander Truestar]

Does the Wayback Machine at archive.org have them?

Sadly, while I can find the "http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/" site and have recovered from there items I find of value, I don't still have the old URL for the Vilani Language pages

 

[tjoneslo]

I wish he would put his work back on-line.
The old links are dead and I can't find if he made them available elsewhere?

The page I posted has a PDF of Rob's old material cleaned up some. He did that precisely because of people like you asking about it.

https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Vilani_(language) - This page also incorporates all of the material, also cleaned up a little for a modern web look.

Or was there something else specific you were looking for?

 

[Commander Truestar]

The page I posted has a PDF of Rob's old material cleaned up some. He did that precisely because of people like you asking about it.

https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Vilani_(language) - This page also incorporates all of the material, also cleaned up a little for a modern web look.

Or was there something else specific you were looking for?

Sadly,
I've been to the page you linked many times,
But it is not the page I was referring to, nor does that link have the data that was on the old page

the data there was massive, and I now regret not copying it

 

[tjoneslo]

I'm curious as to what you think is missing. I'll ask Rob if there was anything from the old pages that may not have made it into the PDF.

 

[Commander Truestar]

I'm curious as to what you think is missing. I'll ask Rob if there was anything from the old pages that may not have made it into the PDF.

As I recall it, there were a massive number of words and their meanings.

So, I could figure out the words I needed and then work them into the proper grammar

 

[Baroun Tardis]

I'm curious as to what you think is missing. I'll ask Rob if there was anything from the old pages that may not have made it into the PDF.

I'm still looking for the Ditzy children's book in Vilani

 

[giant.robot]

A little Wayback spelunking and I found this collection. I don't think the PDF of the Vilani grammar got saved but it looks like the HTML versions are there.

 

[Baroun Tardis]

And the children's book I've been looking for is there!

https://web.archive.org/web/20060310144143/http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/lang/vilani/dizamer/

Well, at least enough to let people know I'm not insane and it actually did exist

 

[Commander Truestar]

And the children's book I've been looking for is there!

https://web.archive.org/web/20060310144143/http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/lang/vilani/dizamer/

Well, at least enough to let people know I'm not insane and it actually did exist

Thank you!!!

The page: "Vilani_Lexicon" is what I was referring to, and which I used to assemble Vilani sentances