Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote:


How many languages do you speak?

More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?


Norwegian (native), English (reasonably fluent, I hope), Swedish (as well 
as any Norwegian can fake it), Danish (ditto, which is slightly worse than 
Swedish for pronunciation but better for reading), German (pretty lapsed 
since high school, but at least well enough to read some content), French 
(pretty badly), and anything else I'm dabbling in requires looking things 
up, but I've recently tried learning to sing in Russian and Greek.


Greetings,
Ørjan.

Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Owen Jacobson

On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus 
 wrote:

> How many languages do you speak?
> 
> More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?

English (well), French (very, very badly), and Bad Machine Translation (well 
enough to get by on).

-o




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Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Aris Merchant
English, and a little bit of Latin.

-Aris

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
 wrote:
> In order of fluency for me:
> English (native), Latin, Spanish, German (basic, understanding not 
> communication), Esperanto (very basic), Greek (beginning to learn)
>
> I can also understand many languages with a dictionary and grammar.
> 
> Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
> p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com
>
>
>
>> On Jun 29, 2017, at 7:59 AM, Josh T  wrote:
>>
>> The set of languages which I speak fluently is smaller than what people 
>> might expect, but I am willing to curl up with a grammar book of many 
>> languages to dabble, of which I have done so with many.
>>
>> 天火狐
>>
>> On 29 June 2017 at 10:31, V.J Rada  wrote:
>> I am purely English speaking rip.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, June 30, 2017, CuddleBeam  wrote:
>> >More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?
>>
>> In order of fluidity:
>>
>> Spanish (native), English (native), Swedish (native but I haven't practiced 
>> in forever so jag minnas inte mycket av det), Japanese (unhealthy amounts of 
>> anime lol), German (very basic), French (very basic), Lojban (if I have a 
>> dictionary with me).
>>
>


Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
In order of fluency for me:
English (native), Latin, Spanish, German (basic, understanding not 
communication), Esperanto (very basic), Greek (beginning to learn)

I can also understand many languages with a dictionary and grammar.

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com



> On Jun 29, 2017, at 7:59 AM, Josh T  wrote:
> 
> The set of languages which I speak fluently is smaller than what people might 
> expect, but I am willing to curl up with a grammar book of many languages to 
> dabble, of which I have done so with many.
> 
> 天火狐
> 
> On 29 June 2017 at 10:31, V.J Rada  wrote:
> I am purely English speaking rip.
> 
> 
> On Friday, June 30, 2017, CuddleBeam  wrote:
> >More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?
> 
> In order of fluidity:
> 
> Spanish (native), English (native), Swedish (native but I haven't practiced 
> in forever so jag minnas inte mycket av det), Japanese (unhealthy amounts of 
> anime lol), German (very basic), French (very basic), Lojban (if I have a 
> dictionary with me).
> 



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Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Josh T
The set of languages which I speak fluently is smaller than what people
might expect, but I am willing to curl up with a grammar book of many
languages to dabble, of which I have done so with many.

天火狐

On 29 June 2017 at 10:31, V.J Rada  wrote:

> I am purely English speaking rip.
>
>
> On Friday, June 30, 2017, CuddleBeam  wrote:
>
>> >More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?
>>
>> In order of fluidity:
>>
>> Spanish (native), English (native), Swedish (native but I haven't
>> practiced in forever so jag minnas inte mycket av det), Japanese (unhealthy
>> amounts of anime lol), German (very basic), French (very basic), Lojban (if
>> I have a dictionary with me).
>>
>


Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread V.J Rada
I am purely English speaking rip.

On Friday, June 30, 2017, CuddleBeam  wrote:

> >More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?
>
> In order of fluidity:
>
> Spanish (native), English (native), Swedish (native but I haven't
> practiced in forever so jag minnas inte mycket av det), Japanese (unhealthy
> amounts of anime lol), German (very basic), French (very basic), Lojban (if
> I have a dictionary with me).
>


Re: Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread CuddleBeam
>More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?

In order of fluidity:

Spanish (native), English (native), Swedish (native but I haven't practiced
in forever so jag minnas inte mycket av det), Japanese (unhealthy amounts
of anime lol), German (very basic), French (very basic), Lojban (if I have
a dictionary with me).


Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
How many languages do you speak?

More generally for everyone, what languages do you speak?

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com



> On Jun 28, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Josh T  wrote:
> 
> That's pretty good, actually. It's transliterated Neo-Akkadian for "If I were 
> to send meaningless messages, would it do anything?"
> 
> I have an interpretation of the rules. Instead of debating about it, I think 
> it is much more interesting to do things that test it and see what Agora 
> decides. I feel my stance on the issue as worded is quite clear given the 
> translation of the moon language, although I would like to see what o comes 
> up with.
> 
> 天火狐
> 
> On 29 June 2017 at 02:47, Ørjan Johansen  wrote:
> After googling a bit, here's my attempt using 
> http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/akkadian/search.php and 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian:
> 
> Orig. transcription
> Dictionary lookup
> Suggested translation
> 
> šumma  našpartamrāqtam
> szumma naszparturaqu
> If message-acc  void,meaningless-fem-acc
> 
> ašpur, mimma epēšū?
> szaparumimma epeszu
> i sent/wrote,  anything  do/act?
> 
> Greetings,
> Ørjan.
> 



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Re: DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Josh T
That's pretty good, actually. It's transliterated Neo-Akkadian for "If I
were to send meaningless messages, would it do anything?"

I have an interpretation of the rules. Instead of debating about it, I
think it is much more interesting to do things that test it and see what
Agora decides. I feel my stance on the issue as worded is quite clear given
the translation of the moon language, although I would like to see what o
comes up with.

天火狐

On 29 June 2017 at 02:47, Ørjan Johansen  wrote:

> After googling a bit, here's my attempt using
> http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/akkadian/search.php and
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian:
>
> Orig. transcription
> Dictionary lookup
> Suggested translation
>
> šumma  našpartamrāqtam
> szumma naszparturaqu
> If message-acc  void,meaningless-fem-acc
>
> ašpur, mimma epēšū?
> szaparumimma epeszu
> i sent/wrote,  anything  do/act?
>
> Greetings,
> Ørjan.


DIS: Decoding attempt

2017-06-29 Thread Ørjan Johansen
After googling a bit, here's my attempt using 
http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/akkadian/search.php and 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian:


Orig. transcription
Dictionary lookup
Suggested translation

šumma  našpartamrāqtam
szumma naszparturaqu
If message-acc  void,meaningless-fem-acc

ašpur, mimma epēšū?
szaparumimma epeszu
i sent/wrote,  anything  do/act?

Greetings,
Ørjan.