09-05-2004 20:35									#121
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ADG: Surely, as you can read German, you can say if Atahualpa and myself broke it from the beginning, or if it happened later on

	09-05-2004 20:41									#122
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As far as I remember the first texts I read wasn't that bad (But I could mistaking, don't have time* to read the 'old' translations)

The last german translation I read had something which is often used as a 'pervert' word... don't know if it's only in southern Denmark we use this word, or if it's also used in Germany


* "time" as in: I'm too tired to go through them at the moment...

	09-05-2004 20:43									#123
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shhhhhhhh spoiler!

	09-05-2004 20:47									#125
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Sent in Swedish to Henrik (and ADG). The text was disappointingly comprehensible.

	09-05-2004 20:48									#126
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I haven't recieved anything...

	09-05-2004 20:52									#127
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Nevermind... got it now

	09-05-2004 23:14									#128
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Sent to Gangerolf in english and to ADG for reference.

	09-05-2004 23:40									#129
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received, sent, and sent!

	10-05-2004 00:37									#130
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ADG (english) -> Spiffor
Spiffor (french) -> Atahualpa
Atahualpa (german) -> vovan
vovan (russian) -> Azazel
Azazel (english) -> Hueij
Hueij (dutch) -> germanos
germanos (german) -> Aivo½so
Aivo½so (finnish) -> Kassiopeia
Kassiopeia (swedish) -> Henrik
Henrik (english) -> Gangerolf
Gangerolf (norwegian) -> Monk
Monk (danish) -> Buck Birdseed
Buck Birdseed (english) -> ADG


We're soon at the end of the line I see

	10-05-2004 00:41									#131
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I have recieved Gangerolf's text. The Scandinavians should be able to translate roughly word by word, so I don't think we'll be the ones screwing it up. Then again, you never know. I did spend a little while wondering about that part with the foxes (yiff, yiff!) before looking at the context eventually cleared things up.

My edition should be available to Snapcase and ADG alike within a couple of minutes.

	10-05-2004 01:10									#132
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This is getting along real nice

	10-05-2004 01:16									#134
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quote: Originally posted by germanos This is getting along real nice

Don't get your hopes up.

	10-05-2004 01:55									#135
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I've sent it off too.

It was way too easy I think. The last one was more fun and would have been much more likely to change meaning in the process, because it was more complicated and included more strange languages. Too bad it was never finished.

	10-05-2004 01:56									#136
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But it WAS finished!

	10-05-2004 02:09									#137
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Really? I missed that!

	10-05-2004 02:09									#138
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed I've sent it off too. It was way too easy I think. The last one was more fun and would have been much more likely to change meaning in the process, because it was more complicated and included more strange languages.

Next time, let's go for a Habermas/James Joyce combo for full effect
Seriously though, you're probably right.

	10-05-2004 02:12									#139
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed Really? I missed that!

There's a link to it in page 2 of this thread.

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quote: Really? I missed that!

You must check it out! It's a riot!

	10-05-2004 02:22									#141
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We also had only four languages that aren't Germanic: Finnish, French, Hebrew, and Russian. Like said, the Scandinavian languages lose pretty little when translated from one to the other. Also Finnish has taken quite a bit of stuff from German and Swedish, and practically half the words in English are stolen from French anyway.

We'd need more "bizarro" languages and more Romance ones like Spanish which we sadly missed, and we'd have to avoid chains where the translation stays in the same lingual group, like with Swedish->English->Norwegian->Danish->English.

	10-05-2004 02:25									#142
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed It was way too easy I think. The last one was more fun and would have been much more likely to change meaning in the process, because it was more complicated and included more strange languages. Too bad it was never finished.

There were two reasons why I picked this easy text:


1) The last one was too meaningless. What I recieved was totally nonsense, which made it quite boring I'd say

2) I was interested to find out how much 'off track' this very easy text could go




The results will be posted soon (in this thread)

	10-05-2004 02:27									#143
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This is the results:

Part 1:
He put on the devil suit. He thought himself quite dapper in the costume with its long tail and enormous horns lying curled on his head. He left the hotel room for the constume ball. As the elevator doors opened he noticed an elderly monk standing inside, and (adopting as deep a voice as he could) enquired: "Going Down?"

Part 2:
The police had learned that three marijuana cigarettes had been sold at a nearby school. The officer sent to the school to confiscate the drugs promptly announced that no-one was to be allowed to leave until all three had turned up. After a while he'd recieved four maruijana cigarettes.

	10-05-2004 02:28									#144
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This was the first text:


Part1:
He was dressed up like the devil. The costume was huge with lizard wings and giant horns on the head.
He had a room in the hotel and was on the way down to a costume party. On the way down a little old baptist woman entered the elevator, and he just said "Going down?" in his best evil voice


Part2:
At my school.. the cop from DARE passed around three joints to show everyone... and he said "if i dont get all three of these back this schools getting locked down and everyones getting searched till i find it.." and like 30 minutes later when everyone got to see 'em and they got passed back the cop had four

	10-05-2004 02:32									#145
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quote: Originally posted by ADG 1) The last one was too meaningless. What I recieved was totally nonsense, which made it quite boring I'd say

Considering I managed to derive a text which (while missing an essential point) caught most of the original two links after you I can safely say that, no, it wasn't.

	10-05-2004 02:32									#146
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cute. Part Two is all ****ed up.

	10-05-2004 02:33									#147
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But of course, the Bible must be historically accurate.

	10-05-2004 02:36									#148
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Yep...

...even simple texts can be 'changed' easily

	10-05-2004 02:37									#149
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Well I think the final Part 2 makes more sense (except for the obvious "how underworked are these cops, honestly?" thing)- why would anyone hand in a joint that they knew hadn't been handed out?

I notice the tone in the two pieces converged over time.

	10-05-2004 02:40									#150
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Both stories are (as far as I know) true storie, which makes them funny*



* If you understand this type of humor