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Author:  Grif [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:59 am ]
Post subject:  An excercise in diplomacy [go to page 2]
Find the original meaning of the following sentence. I took a common english phrase, and then put it through an online translator repeatedly, each time in a different language.

The result, after I ran out of languages, was this:

Quote:
Color Goa pidime brown argon ' is the fast e dog.


Each day I will post a new hint, in the form of the translation that preceded the one most recently posted, until the final one, where it is fairly easy to guess.

The winner may or may not recieve a prize. And no one who frequents IRC is allowed to participate.
Author:  Kelas [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
Hell, I might just give the winner a cc key.
Author:  21GP [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
Then I am so in.
Author:  Laika [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
Give it to someone deserving.
Author:  21GP [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
OMG y r u haet plz
Author:  Grif [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:12 am ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
Kelas's key(s) and the one I am giving out will both probably be decided by a series of contests.

This would appear to be a contest.

By the way, guessing is open at this point, you people can guess as much as you want.
Author:  finairfin [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:46 am ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

or

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


or some iteration of that.... something about foxes and/or dogs.
Author:  Dauss [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
Please don't tell me it's the "Brown fox over dogs" sentence, please, EVERYONE knows that one.
Author:  Falcon X [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
The brown colored dog is the fastest?
Author:  Kokits [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
It has to be:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The similarities are there.
Author:  Alenth Eneil [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
Grif wrote:
And no one who frequents IRC is allowed to participate.


Most of IRC has/will have a key anyway.
Author:  Kokits [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
I already have a key... but hey, it would make a good christmas present.

I appears that "GOA" is a place in India, it also means "wisdom" or "The act of knowing" in Hadi, the official language of India. However GOA has no exact match in there language.

Pidime seems to be a real word in some language, I think it's German, I'll check into it.

Mine so far:

Quote:
Color wise pidime brown element ' is the fast e dog.


EDIT: Pidime doesn't seem to be German, or Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Porteguese.

EDIT2: Anybody know a translator that can translate the language "Estonian"?

EDIT3: Dammit, it doesn't look like "pidime" is Estonian. I g2g for now.
Author:  Raintail99 [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
well heck im in.

This rocks, my grandpa has a 4 different language dictionary! Hazzah!
Author:  Raintail99 [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
Well, this sounds screwed up, but this is what I got.
Code:
If color goa or Brown is pidime argon or nearly and dog
That's only with a few languages.

EDIT:OOPS! DOUBLE POST!!! OH NOES!!!!!

EDIT2:Ok, I kinda messed with it, what i got now:
Code:
Color of wise of Brown's pidime element 'is the of fast and dog

I used kokit's as a base.
NOTE:German changes fast to nearly, but it doesn't look right.

EDIT3: Just used swedish:
Code:
Cokes of wise of Brown ' s pidime elements 'ice the of permanent wild duck died.


Well, that's most of my translations. BUT not all (Uncle travels and talk to tons of different people for a living)
Author:  Grif [ Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An excercise in diplomacy.
finairfin wrote:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog

or

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


or some iteration of that.... something about foxes and/or dogs.


Winner, and the first one to do it.

Next sentence will be significantly more obscure.

Consider this one a practice run, because there's no way I'm giving out a CC key for getting it that fast.
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