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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5377 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 9 of 29 23 October 2009 at 12:08am | IP Logged | ||
Very close! Well done! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6413 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 29 23 October 2009 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't studied Esperanto much (aside from some free correspondence lessons in the '80s), but like you said, knowledge of several European languages makes your sentence transparent.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5657 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 29 23 October 2009 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | ||
Without knowing ANY Slavic language, I have no chance at all because I don't understand a single word. I leave this translation challenge to others! Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6704 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 29 23 October 2009 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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This game is an interesting idea and I'd like to participate too. But I am stumped and my hands are tied at the moment because I am clueless about the last post. Maybe the rules should include a mechanism for getting out of dead ends, like (perhaps) is happening with the phrase in Czech above.
I can't think of any really sophisticated way of handling it off hand, and there are probably better ways, but how about this addition to the rules: If say four days have passed without response it would be legitimate for anyone to jump in and take off in another direction with another language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| magister Pro Member United States Joined 6413 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 29 23 October 2009 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree that Matteo's idea is interesting and it has potential to be a fun activity. Like Hencke, I think it just needs a few tweaks.
I'd hate to be the cause of a 4-day holdup, just because there happen to be few Czech speakers on this forum. I'll provide the translation this weekend if no one else does. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Matteo Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 5390 days ago 88 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: ItalianB1, German | Message 14 of 29 23 October 2009 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's our game, lets put rules to get it better!
:) I have an idea to make it more easy to learning and to find someone who knows the languages. What do you think about divide the game in languages families... for example... "Translation game (only latin languages)" "Translation game (only Germanic languages)" "Translation game (only slavics languages)" Well... this is just an idea. Edited by Matteo on 23 October 2009 at 11:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5576 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 15 of 29 24 October 2009 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd like to be able to take part in this, and implementing Matteo's idea would make that possible, and probably encourage more people to take part, also. That has my vote :]
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5377 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 16 of 29 24 October 2009 at 3:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps after a certain period of time, somebody can "cheat" and use a translator like Reverso or Google Translate. I'll admit I already put the Czech sentence into Google Translate, but I won't give away its meaning.
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