Polyglottal Telephone XIII

[Ulrike Meinhof]

Done and sent. If I'd known it would only take me an hour or so, I'd have done it a lot sooner. How embarrassing.

Received. Starting the translation right away, because I'm bored.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

Done and sent. If I'd known it would only take me an hour or so, I'd have done it a lot sooner. How embarrassing.

You forgot the English translation, though...

[Dewrad]

Done and sent. If I'd known it would only take me an hour or so, I'd have done it a lot sooner. How embarrassing.

You forgot the English translation, though...

What? We have to do that now? Fie. I never made a smooth English translation, just a crib to help going from OS to OO.

[finlay]

Done and sent. If I'd known it would only take me an hour or so, I'd have done it a lot sooner. How embarrassing.

You forgot the English translation, though...

What? We have to do that now? Fie. I never made a smooth English translation, just a crib to help going from OS to OO.

We always did. It's to help those that don't know either Old French or Old Occitan, after all... a bare bones outline should be ok though.

[Ulrike Meinhof]

Oh god, I am officially destroying the text. I think I may just have invented a new idiom whose meaning evades me.

[Ulrike Meinhof]

Sent and sent. I think I may be the "Romanian" link this time...

[Mr. Z]

Why is everybody persistently misspelling his name, anyway?

I thought it was Dewrad, but it was written Deward in the first post, so I thought I was wrong.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

I believe it's fixed now...

Is there anyone willing to do Finnish to Japanese (possibly with something else in the middle) in case Qwynegold doesn't show up?

[Bob Johnson]

My Finnish is horrible, but I could try.

[finlay]

Oh god, whosever's idea it was to replace proper nouns with pronouns in the text because it supposedly makes it easier... you were wrong. I feel sure that this text originally had three or four different participants who could only be distinguished by name – context isn't always enough. But perhaps it's just Mangled already.

Anyway, I'm done, so passing it on...

[Legion]

Maybe next time we should resort to something like put the proper nouns in italic?

[Ulrike Meinhof]

Oh god, whosever's idea it was to replace proper nouns with pronouns in the text because it supposedly makes it easier... you were wrong.

Not to make it easier, to make it harder.

[Peacekeeper]

I would suggest that we just replace them with a bunch of made up names next time around though. Removing the names altogether has a tendency of fucking things up an extra degree for reasons that may just be unwarranted.

By the way, if anyone can do Finish to Spanish, I can work with that as well. Might get things rolling if Qwynegold continues to be elusive.



EDIT: Hey, when did I become Gent again?

[finlay]

Emma hasn't received the PM yet.

[Emma]

Just got it. Sorry, hadn't been on here the last couple of days. :/ I'll try and get it done tomorrow.

[Ser]

EDIT: Hey, when did I become Gent again?

Now you need 6000 points and not just 2000 to become a Šalea. Sorry.

[Qwynegold]

OMG sorry! I had completely forgotten about this and then I went on vacation. I'll do my translation today. If I had gotten the text on time, I would've done it weeks ago.

[Qwynegold]

Oh god, whosever's idea it was to replace proper nouns with pronouns in the text because it supposedly makes it easier... you were wrong. I feel sure that this text originally had three or four different participants who could only be distinguished by name – context isn't always enough. But perhaps it's just Mangled already.

Anyway, I'm done, so passing it on...

And the genders got lost in Finnish. But at least I can determine the gender of a few of the pronouns, because of that person's lady parts that are mentioned.

[Peacekeeper]

Looking forward to the text, Qwyne!

EDIT: Hey, when did I become Gent again?

Now you need 6000 points and not just 2000 to become a Šalea. Sorry.

I guess the interesting part is how long I've actually been Shalea while still only being some 30 posts past the mark. Not that I mind, really, I always did find the Gent banner to be more attractive.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

You showed up just in time... I was just about to get someone else to do it.

[Mr. Z]

EDIT: Hey, when did I become Gent again?

Now you need 6000 points and not just 2000 to become a Šalea. Sorry.

I still don't understand these titles. What's the meaning of the names? When does the title change?

[Lyhoko Leaci]

EDIT: Hey, when did I become Gent again?

Now you need 6000 points and not just 2000 to become a Šalea. Sorry.

I still don't understand these titles. What's the meaning of the names? When does the title change?

Well, these are the post counts for when they change...

Iseléaku 1
Ur 50
Për 100
Endi 250
Tšur 500
Mey 1000
Gent 2000
Šalea 6000

Don't know what they mean.

[finlay]

EDIT: Hey, when did I become Gent again?

Now you need 6000 points and not just 2000 to become a Šalea. Sorry.

I still don't understand these titles. What's the meaning of the names? When does the title change?

They're words from Verdurian... Elemental spirits or something.

[tubragg]

Oh god, whosever's idea it was to replace proper nouns with pronouns in the text because it supposedly makes it easier... you were wrong. I feel sure that this text originally had three or four different participants who could only be distinguished by name – context isn't always enough. But perhaps it's just Mangled already.

Anyway, I'm done, so passing it on...

And the genders got lost in Finnish. But at least I can determine the gender of a few of the pronouns, because of that person's lady parts that are mentioned.

Fun as it is to read about your endeavours, shouldn't we try to keep the spoilers to a minimum? I don't just mean Qwyne and fin, it seems to me that there's generally been more talk about the text this time than in previous iterations.

[Qwynegold]

Done and sent.