14-03-2004 10:11									#1
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OK, I just thought of something that could be a lot of fun.

The game would be about using the combined resources of Apolytoners to start a chain of translations. What I mean, is that I will choose a few sentences long paragraph that will be written in English.

Someone translates it to French. Then someone takes the French paragraph and turn it into German. From German to Italian, from Italian to Spanish, from Spanish to Chinese, etc.
At last, someone will translate it back to English, and we'll see what the result is compared to the original paragraph.

If this sounds like fun to you, post in this thread and specify what are the languages you feel like you know enough to put at use in the game.

I will then prepare a chain of people and make it as long as possible. The first person in the chain will receive the sentence by PM, and when he's done with the work he'll send what he's done to the next person in the chain, and so forth- the point being, of course, that no one should know what the original sentence is.

Your turn now!

(I will crosspost this in the other games forum).

	14-03-2004 10:13									#2
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but this has nothing to do with 'Lost in Translation' .

	14-03-2004 10:15									#3
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui but this has nothing to do with 'Lost in Translation' .

I knew you would be attracted by the title. C'mon, join in. Don't you speak an Asian language? Aren't you from Pakistan or something?

	14-03-2004 10:16									#4
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I can't write it though, so you are out of luck .

	14-03-2004 10:18									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui I can't write it though, so you are out of luck .

It's not like it's a change from your English anyway.

	14-03-2004 10:22									#6
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The insult made no sense... I guess that is par for the course from a half-frog

	14-03-2004 10:25									#7
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English obviously, functional Spanish and crap Korean (but know enough people who speak it and English to translate for me ).

	14-03-2004 10:27									#8
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Thanks for ruining the threadjack

	14-03-2004 10:32									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Boshko English obviously, functional Spanish and crap Korean (but know enough people who speak it and English to translate for me ).

So, you would do Korean to English or Spanish to English?

	14-03-2004 10:33									#10
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You were too subtle Imran. The art of threadjacking is a fine balance between obvious and subtle.

Btw, I thought you were US born?

	14-03-2004 10:33									#11
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I am.

	14-03-2004 10:58									#12
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I know a little French.

	14-03-2004 11:09									#13
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im fluent in french, and a little finnish.

	14-03-2004 11:13									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia im fluent in french, and a little finnish.

Do you feel like you could go from Finnish to French?

	14-03-2004 11:26									#15
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nope.

	14-03-2004 11:27									#16
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unless its extremely simple (and on the right topic)

	14-03-2004 11:29									#17
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Especially since Finnish is from a different language tree than French.

	14-03-2004 11:30									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui Especially since Finnish is from a different language tree than French.

Finnish is evil.

EDIT: BTW Imran, I have replied to your nonsense about fascism. Go back to the thread if you have some balls.

	14-03-2004 11:39									#19
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dont count on it.

	14-03-2004 12:59									#20
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The worse you know a language, the better for this, I'm guessing.

In that spirit, put me down for French, German, Latin, and Greek. I know none of them.

	14-03-2004 15:16									#21
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I know: English (do'h ), German and Danish...
Though I can only translate from German, not to German...

	14-03-2004 15:38									#22
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Whta if someone who tends to like to screw things u for people due to very certain psycholigical disorders that were manifested at a very young age due to a host of fa-too-hard-to-explain-reasons was to just translate it back into englis himmediatley after the first trans? Would that ruin the game, or is this just a big continuous thing?

	14-03-2004 15:39									#23
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what about elvish? that is technically a language, or Klingon! OOOOOh klingon would be fun, but a tad bit too geeky even for me.

	14-03-2004 15:45									#24
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As a fiendish full French I can translate the sentences from english to French though I would have some trouble to start from a language other than English.

I suppose that makes my offer pretty useless.

	14-03-2004 17:25									#25
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I can say hello in Greek, Turkish and Thai...are they any use?

	14-03-2004 17:31									#26
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Well, I'm fluent in Swedish, Hungarian and English. I could make a passable attempt at translating from Norwegian or Danish (we're supposed to understand them for some ****ing reason, we get academic texts in both regularly).

	14-03-2004 17:48									#27
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Put me down for the Cockney rhyming slang bit.

	14-03-2004 17:57									#28
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Cor blimey guvner

	14-03-2004 19:18									#29
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Well, I reckon I could translate English/Danish and vice versa. But if Winston gets involved, don't blame me for the mysterious appearance of a tirade on indecent leftists that may occur around our part of the chain.

I guess I could translate from the other Scandinavian languages as well, but preferably not Swedish. Hey Buck, you get academic texts in Danish? Sorry for the threadjack, but with the exception of Danish literature, I can't really imagine what texts would be accessible in Danish but not Swedish.

	14-03-2004 19:59									#30
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Things written by Danish scholars?

http://www.cfje.dk/cfje/VidBase.nsf...d2?OpenDocument

http://www.nikk.uio.no/publikasjone...in/mag20002.pdf (warning: massive PDF file)

And stuff.