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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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