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Offline Lurk Hurk Gurk

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The Silly Meta-Translation Game
« on: February 09, 2007, 01:05:17 PM »
Write a message in English, then take words (not neccessarily all of them) that double as valid in another language of your choice (my main one will be quite predictable) and translate them from that language to English. If the result of such a translation is another translatable word, feel free to repeat the process; in order to add to the confusion, feel free to choose different languages for different layers of translation. And feel free to comment on and speculate about the meaning of messages without writing your own.

I'll begin with the following:

I am about to take a bad.
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Re: The Silly Meta-Translation Game
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2007, 01:05:36 PM »
Oh, duck I hate burp.
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Re: The Silly Meta-Translation Game
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2007, 01:51:52 PM »
It might help if you explained what you started with.
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Re: The Silly Meta-Translation Game
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2007, 01:58:28 PM »
That's kind of spoiling the pointless confusion, but oh well...

for the first: bath
for the second: and, rap
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Re: The Silly Meta-Translation Game
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2007, 02:48:47 PM »
It's not the fart that's killing, it's the smell.  8)
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