Eloquence

Turn MMO jargon into standard English.

What Is It?

Eloquence is a linguistic mod that gives you control over communication. You can apply different levels of chat filters for yourself and others, trim long messages into clickable links, modify channel headers, apply colors to players’ names, and manage spam in lots of ways.

I. Filters

Eloquence’s biggest feature is the selectable filter settings. Anyone can appreciate its spell-checking and caps-squashing filters, while roleplayers will enjoy the various dialects. You can filter your own chat to other players, or you can keep your filtered experience totally private.

AVAILABLE FILTERS

Spell Book

The most basic yet important filter. Corrects common spelling and grammatical errors, reduces out-of-control repetition, and keeps people from shouting with all caps.

Decompression Engine

Expands Warcraft and MMO acronyms. Translates cryptic expressions like “288 lw lfw!” and “LF!M SMA PREF TANK!!!” into plain English

Emote Whiz

Verbalizes smilies, emoticons, and other ideogrammatic expressions.

Mouthwash

Replaces profanity and offensive words with more acceptable euphemisms.

Fantasy Writer

Rewrites many modern, out-of-character expressions with those found in fantasy literature.

Dialectician

Each speaker will speak in an accent or dialect based on his or her race. Eloquence detects player’s races through a variety of means, but sometimes this isn’t possible. Players of an unknown race are filtered using Fantasy Writer.

ALLIANCE DIALECTS

Human: In-character speech with some phrases like “King’s honor, friend.”

Dwarf: Everything’s in Scots! “Ah’m no’ shuir if that wull wirk, laddie.”

Night Elf: Some Darnassian like “Asha’falah” and slightly formal language (few contractions).

Gnome: Quirky, brainy vocabulary and folksy cliches.

Draenei: Few contractions and some Draenei words.

HORDE DIALECTS

Orc: A few Orcish words and phrases like “Lok’tar” and “Zug zug”.

Tauren: Formal language with some race-specific sayings like “Winds be at your back!”

Troll: Thick Jamaican basilectic patois with some Trollish like “Tas’dingo!”

Undead: A slight hiss that intensifies when they get excited. Several Forsaken sayings.

Blood Elf: Proud and cocky, with some phrases in Thelassian.

II. Chat Links

Eloquence offers two styles of Clickable Chat Links that trims long messages and tags them at the end. Clicking them will reveal the original (long) message. This way you can keep enchanters and guild recruiters from clogging your chat window! (Due to the way links are handled, it doesn’t work on messages that contain linked items).

III. Headers

a. Eloquence can shorten common channel headers like “[1. General]” into a number “[4.]” or letter “[G.]”. Several display styles are available.

b. Eloquence can color players’ names based on their class and add their level, if Eloquence knows them. You can have players whose classes are unknown are assigned a random color if you wish. Eloquence can also color player’s names inside chat messages for easy recognition.

IV. Display Options

Eloquence features multiple miscellaneous display options to give you more control over what you see in your chat window. The options window has checkboxes for suppressing chat spam, duel announcements, drunk/sober messages, coin spam, brackets, and PvP ranks.

V. Player Data

Some features need Eloquence to know something about a player speaking. These are the race-specific Level 4 filter and the “Names of Known Players” setting. If these options are enabled, Eloquence will passively gather info on your friends, party/raid/guild members, and players you mouse-over. You can also have Eloquence actively gather data when you change zones and talk to NPCs. A slider lets you choose how long to keep data. You can see how many player entries Eloquence has gathered, and purge the list if you wish.

VI. Text Commands

You can apply custom filters. For example, typing “/elo add gz = grats” (without quotes) will tell Eloquence to turn “gz” (as a whole word) into “grats”. Custom filters are applied before Eloquence’s are, so you can override the defaults this way too. For example, type “/elo add woot = woot” to keep Eloquence from altering the word “woot”.

You can tell Eloquence to not filter certain players or channels. Type “/elo skip Thrakzor” (without quotes) to let Thrakzor’s chat appear normally. Type “/elo channel Addon” to keep the custom channel “Addon” from being filtered at all.

Beta 0.97b

BUG FIXES: - Fixed a typo that disabled Dialects. They should now work properly. Ya, mon!

FEATURES: - The commands "/elo suppress" and "/elo skip" now accept unit IDs. For example, type "/elo suppress target" to suppress your current target. These work for both players and NPC.