Forever Tongues

Talk to the other faction. Horde and Alliance cannot read each other's chat: the server turns every word into a fake word of the speaker's language. Forever Tongues works with that garbling instead of against it.

• Hear them. After a say or yell in a language you do not speak, the addon adds a grey guess of what was meant: Melka hir ras (where are you).
• Talk to them. Start a line with * and the addon picks words that the other faction reads as real words.
• Code it. Start a line with ! (or switch the speaking mode to coded) and another Forever Tongues user reads your exact text.

The book

A click on the minimap button opens an old book with parchment pages:

• Phrases – ready-made chat phrases in topics (greetings, help, trade, directions, questing, swearing, ...). Each shows what the other faction will read, whether it gets through whole, and a Say button.
• Heard – the last 40 lines you heard from the other faction, each with the book's guess. Click a word to see what else it may mean, and pick the right one. The book remembers your choice.
• Glossary – just for fun: their words from A to Z, each with what it may mean. Turn the page to the next language or look up a word.
• Settings – the speaking mode, all options, and sliders for the book's opacity and size.

More

• A Tongues chat tab for the cross-faction talk, opened by itself (can be turned off).
• A hint under the chat box while you type: what the other faction will read and which words are left out.
• A sound and a flashing tab when a coded message arrives in another tab.
• An 18+ option: rude words show as !@#$ until you turn it on.
• 1,553 chat words and 2,431 phrases in the dictionary.

Commands

/tongues lists all commands. The main ones:

Good to know

• The guesses are guesses. Common chat lines are mostly right; free chat gives a rough gist. Words you corrected always win.
• Words are read best for Orcish and Common. Other languages have the dictionary and the glossary, but fewer words get through when you talk.
• Made for the Forever client (Interface 16001); it also loads on the 1.12.1 client.