As mentioned by kaner and I in episode 4 of DiplomacyGames.com its time for another game of Google Translate Diplomacy.
Who is interested in a totally weird and whacky game? Unrated of course for pure entertainment value?
Key questions:
1. "Normal" Diplomacy game OR throw in an Extreme Personalities twist to really make it highly entertaining
2. Follow the same translate process of the first game (a) start with your own native language, translate it into one of three obscure languages that were within pre-World War 1 player's borders or nearby (eg France couldn't use French but could use Basque, Breton or Arabic - due to their colonies, England couldn't use English but could use Welsh, Irish or Hindi - again due to colonies, Russia could use Mongolian, Belorussian or Finish etc). Then you would translate this into an agreed totally different language such as Chinese traditional or Hebrew which would then be posted to players or (b) do the massive 34 language translation.
Listen to the podcast & drop by the show notes on http://diplomacygames.com/diplomacy-games-podcast-episode-4-shownotes-world-war-iv-google-translate-diplomacy for examples of how the game is played.
Also check out the original forum thread at http://www.vdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=60236#60236 and the very first game at http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?
gameID=22987