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mindseye is offline mindseye
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A Yankee living in Shanghai
Apr 1999
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  Old Post 19-03-2004 21:11
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We can add another step at the end:

Boshko translates to English send to mindseye.
Mindseye translates to Chinese, sends to Urban Ranger
Urban Ranger translates to English, sends to Oncle Boris.
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Once in a brown moon
Aug 2001
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quote:
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We can add another step at the end:

Boshko translates to English send to mindseye.
Mindseye translates to Chinese, sends to Urban Ranger
Urban Ranger translates to English, sends to Oncle Boris.


Hmmm... why not, while we're at it?

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At the end, I hope you post a list of the translations, line by line, so we can witness the metamorphasis. We can paste graphics of the Chinese text.

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Jun 2001
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Has anyone heard from Pave yet?
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I just got the German translation, and have started now... it's going to take some time though, since it's a tough translation

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Jun 2001
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Translation finally sent...
Man that text just didn't make any sense at all. Lots of the words wasn't even to find in any dictionary, wasn't much to go by

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Khoon Ki Pyasi Dayan (1988)
Nov 2000
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Never mind... I see I gave Gångerolf a mere five minutes to respond.

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May 2001
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I'm starting on it now...
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Aug 2001
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quote:
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Translation finally sent...
Man that text just didn't make any sense at all. Lots of the words wasn't even to find in any dictionary, wasn't much to go by


things are starting to get fun already
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Yeah, I defently can't wait to see the original text, so I finally may be able to figure out what the text was about

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May 2001
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Sent!



It's difficult to see how this could make sense in any language!
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Sent.

As what arrived to me was a somewhat nonsensical mess I decided not to go down the route of direct translation. Instead I pulled the shreds together into something approaching a coherent text, while at the same time trying to retain what I thought might have been the meaning to begin with. Though I tried to keep the structure intact I have made significant changes to wording, sentence structure, etc. It's still not a text as I would have written it but at least it's not totally confusing now.
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I thought about doing the same thing, but I don't know, maybe it was supposed to be totally confusing?

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Doubt it. Most texts don't start with a connective for one, that first sentence took ages to make sense of.
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You actually made sense of that first sentence?
I didn't, except that I assumed it had to be a follow-up to a sentence that was left out for some reason.
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Aug 2001
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quote:
 Originally posted by ADG
Translation finally sent...
Man that text just didn't make any sense at all. Lots of the words wasn't even to find in any dictionary, wasn't much to go by


quote:
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You actually made sense of that first sentence?


, yes, the translation I made was quite... odd. Sorry to everyone who has and have to translate it. But the original text had some odd phrases too, and I had to first translate it from english to finnish and after that translate it to german.
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Bump. Vovan?
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Aug 2000
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  Old Post 23-03-2004 21:21
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Inflate your Upload Space

how long until we see the 2 versions
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Aug 2001
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It depends on how much time each person takes. I say one week.
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May 2002
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Someone send me a PM when this is done, I'm quite curious

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MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
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bump: waiting for you, vovan...
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yup
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VOVAN!

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Come one vovan... we want this game to be finished sometime this year

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  Old Post 27-03-2004 18:55
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does he even know about the game? he hasn't posted in this thread..
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Nov 2000
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I did send the PM to him...
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May 2002
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  Old Post 28-03-2004 20:45
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If there's problems I can do english to russian.
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I suggest we replace vovan with Firelad then. I'll resend the text in a couple of hours if no-one objects.
 
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