is there one?

I DLd one I think last night but I lost it and forgot the name

If you mean horde to alliance / alliance to horde, then I doubt it. I believe that's against the terms of service. If you mean so that dwarves can read elvish and vice versa, for example, then I do not know. That would be quite fun. Post back, if that's what you have discovered.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/tongues.aspx

this is what i wanted

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there is a translater somewhere that does orchish to alliance i know some1 that has it but i dont know wat it is called

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Originally Posted by kidpaler

there is a translater somewhere that does orchish to alliance i know some1 that has it but i dont know wat it is called

If you find it, please don't post it on Curse. Your post will get deleted, as that kind of addon is against Blizzard's Terms of Use, and WILL get you banned by Blizzard.

I just had an orc speak english to me in the chat window. WTF?

Presuming you weren't on a Horde character...  I'll bet there were a bunch of extra spaces in words?  Blizzard's method of obfuscating text always changes the same text the same way.  A well-known example is that an Orcish "lol" becomes "kek" to an Alliance listener.

Some people have spent a lot of time figuring out what all the single letters become, what all the letter pairs become, and what various letter trios become.  They then use this to create strings that will be "translated" into something that comes out as English.  Usually there are extra spaces, since they might have to, for example, break a five-letter word into a pair of letters and a trio to get what they want.

There are severe limits to what you can do this way, though.  Any individual letter in Orcish is mapped to one of five in Common:  A, N, G, O, L.  Two letter combinations are mapped to one of these:  Ha, Ko, No, Mu, Ag, Ka, Gi, Il.

I'm sure you can already see some things that could be done:  "Ha Ha", "A ha", "Ha g", "No No", "G o", "L o l", "G ag", "L ag" are all possibilities, for example.  Still, there's a lot of things you can't say with these.

Three-letter combinations are mapped to: Lok, Tar, Kaz, Ruk, Kek, Mog, Zug, Gul, Nuk, Aaz, Kil, Ogg.  Most of these, though, are combinations that don't show up much in English, so they're not very useful.  It gets worse as you go to four letters or more.

So... there's a few things that a Horde player can get across, if they go look things up to learn how to do it.  It's very limited, though.

Oh, one other possibility -- did you hover over them to double-check their race?  There are a few quests and things that will disguise an Alliance character as an orc, but won't change their language.  So, it could have been an Ally who just looked like an orc right then.

I would be careful in using these addons, Blizzard frowns upon them, and sometimes they get pretty crafty in ways of catching people who use them.