A h-Alba Gàidhlig a 'gheama a dh'fhaodadh a bhith spòrsail .

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yes yes, I get you are taking the piss.

The funny thing is that I lived in Norway waaaaay back in 1998 and still get the gist of what they are talking about.

But do you know what 4 languages I used? I would have added a fifth but my Tengwar is not all that solid.

Are you remembering to count emoticon?

Я не знаю, что вы говорите

Благодарю Вас, посол

With all the sudden foreign language discussions in the forum, would anyone be up for a fun unrated Google Translate game?

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

I still like the idea of an in character ethnic stereotypes game in which press has to be put through Google Translate into the appropriate language and then back again to make everything slightly stilted.

So GOD knows the inscription on the One Ring. Does he know what each word means? Ash means one, nazg means ring (hence nazgul is ringwraiths). -atul means them the -uk suffixes adds all to them. From there you should be able to figure the rest out if you know the line.

Ambassador and gopher, both sound interesting to me.

I don't mind the sound of that gopher. Could be a lot of fun. So you in with me and YCHTT?

I guess.

Just make it two day phases or at least no weekend processing, please.

Oh goodie, a translation game, count me in!

Welcome aboard kaner.

So we're looking at four players so far. I'd like us to get to at least seven for a classic board, or 10 using a modern board or to add a slight Asian feel with Colonial 1885 (also 10 players).

Based on gopher's suggestion:
- Players will get a randomly selected country to play. Off the site they should draft their response in English based around a stereotyped ethnicity of the country they're playing. Feel free to make it as entertaining as you like. Think of it as a quasi-extreme personalities meets Google Translate variant.
- then go to Google Translate and convert your English stereotyped message into the language of your country. Then take that version and translate it back again to English. If we have any players who's primary language is not English, feel free to use your home language initially, translated to your country's language and then translated to English. eg a German person who drew Turkey would put together their message in German, Google translate to Turkish, then Google translate to English.
- I'd suggest we see how the translations go. If it's all a bit dull we may mix it up a bit and add another translation or two to make it more confusing and entertaining.

Who else is up for it?

If you draw England, try to be original and use Gaelic, Welsh, or Irish.

Surely that would only apply if they were playing Britain, not England...

I would play

Semantics, mouse. Technically, you don't play as England. You play as the United Kingdom. But the Queen of England is still the queen over the Welsh people and the Prince of Wales is Prince Charles, the Queen's son. Yet go driving around Wales and you will see plenty of signs even today with Welsh written on them.

Britain just has to affect British diction. No modern or Colonial. I don;t know the difference between Egyptian and Turkish ethnic stereotype nor between Russian and Ukrainian.

YCHTT/mouse - there's no reason why you still couldn't play as a pompish/cockney/whatever Englishman but translate English to Gaelic/Welsh/Irish and then back to English. That's a good solution to a problem I missed!

Caerus - welcome aboard, that's 5.

gopher - I agree that the argument you make re: Modern makes sense, but can't see how it applies to Colonial 1885 as it has the usual 7 classic players, Japan and China (which are pretty unique). I guess the only player that might be a little harder to play would be the Dutch. That said, I can't see them being any harder to play in stereotype to Austria.

My Dutch stereotype would be something approaching Goldmember.

That works. Or a heavy dope smoking, brothel visiting cyclist.

As the title of this thread started off as a lark and has now progressed onto a possible game, would you guys be happy with me moving it into a new thread?

(the extreme Google translate conversation in a new thread I mean)

Might not a sword wielding Moroccan with strong opinions on film theory be more appropriate?