Round 131

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Kalisa Hagen
Kalisa Hagen Sweindo looks (a little) like Finnish to me. :)

Sorry, people, I went out after my last response (and my mobile phone isn't very smart these days; no soc-med).

I also had *hard time* figuring out what sentence in what language to translate since you guys are too smart for a "piece of cake". :D

Anyway, here it is:

Trebuie să mergeți la dreapta, după aceea la stânga, și apoi drept înainte, și în jos pe scări.

An easy one -I guess- (I took it from one of my language books). But let me know if it's too easy for you or has been played before.

And I think I don't need to mention the name of the language, no!? :D
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Nice one, Kalisa Hagen, I picked up words from different languages (tribute, mengerti, dupa, jos, scary).. I will do this shortly
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Дайте Нефть Из Баку, Icelandic pronounciation: http://youtu.be/PtunhyMW1hM :D
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Hah, oh god.. Looks like I'm gonna have to go over all this Sveindo stuff and see what people have done to it.:D

And Kalisa nice, Romanian?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Let me dabble in Swéðonesien flag :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Hmm... First part could be: we must dip/plunge in justice
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Maria Weidner, Sarah Karoline, and others, when searching for a particular point in time, use the extra-huge Unabridged page (http://sprogspelet.arwi.im/history/unabridged/).
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter you have to go right, after that left, and then down by stairs?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo We must dip/plunge in justice, behind/after that left, and then right before, and in down on parrotfish (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scarus) :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Vincensiu Denis' one makes much more sense than mine
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo The flag of Swéðonesien (annotated with color meaning)
The left-bottom part is uncolored/transparent.

generosity: we let others win sometimes
bravery: we steal others win sometimes
honesty: no Google Translate
loyalty: we keep the game moving
ställ: ställ
:D
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter You (pl) must walk to the right, then afterwards to left, and after (forward)r right, and then down by the stairs....
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter remind me to a song which lyric was
"un pas inainte şi apoi doi inapoi"
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Cheat: to summon the boss, press → ← → ↓
Kalisa Hagen
Kalisa Hagen Vincensiu Denis Haha, your first guess almost correct. Something missing though. Then I read your second, I'm a little confused with the "and after (forward)r right" part. But I think you're heading to the *right direction*. :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo The third part (și apoi drept înainte) is rather tricky...
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Sorry I am a bit busy working today... Will attempt to stjälcuri this round later on :)
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Hallå, dear fellow språkspelare or sprogspelers! This is a message from Sprogspelets progenitor. ;) Yesterday evening when I loggade in på Facebook I got a shock! :) Haha! A new exiting language Sweindo and Tausend new comments! It took my whole evening and whole morning to read through them all and to understand what this was all about. Very exiting!
Also, I have a couple of thougts utöver detta som jag skulle vilja dela med er. :)
1. I am the kind of person who cries and sing along to the songs "We are the world" and "Heal the world" everytime I hear them. It’s silly, I know. However, playing Språkspelet or Sprogspelet and hanging out on Omniglot fanclub facebook page, really gives me hope for the world.
2. I love you all språkspelare! You are all very kind, funny, respectful, friendly, able to cooperate + loads of other good adjectives! Together we make a nice, creative community within the sprogspel :D
3. I am very grateful that you always give me cred for inventing the game. At the same time I feel a little bad too. When it comes to languages I am very much inferrior to all of you. I speak swedish and english (limited). I know a little french and I am starting to learn a little german. Therefore I don’t think I have very much to bring to the game and keep myself out of it most of the time even though I always follow the evolution of it with great interest. I don’t really think it’s just thanks to me this game still exists. It’s thanks to all sprogspelare! :) It is all the sprogspelare together that keep this game alive, going and evolving!
4. How would you like the thought of having a Sprogspeler Hall of Fame? Så istället föratt ge mig cred kan we giv each other cred for having the highest amount of posts, wins, funny mistags and so on?
5. Yes, I mixade a few språk i denna text! :) So I say thank you fore the språk, for giving them to me! (Read this last sentence to the melody of ABBAs ”Thank you for the music”
Hugs! Take care!
// Malin
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Malin, don't worry, you speak more than me! The fact you can write in such good English automatically wins you that honour - I can't use any other language that well :(

Also, very impressed that you bothered to read all those posts xD
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Thanks Christian :D
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith I wonder if eventually we should just make a new FB group, but then we'd lose the connection to new people that's made easier by being part of a bigger language community.
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Christian: I think staying in the wonderful Omniglot fanclub, the place where the game was born, is the best option as long as other Omniglot fans doesen't get annoyed :) I can definetly not compare to the rest of you! You can even create your own languages :D I don't even recognise half of the language terminology that you use :P I am impressed by the knowlede and competence all of you posses!
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Malin Ich unterrichte Englisch als zweite Sprache und enligt min mening skriver du utmärkt engelska, just like other sprogspelare. Meine Studenten würden avundsjuk sein!

I feel other språkspelare have better knowledge of languages and/or linguistics than me, but I try to pick things up from them. I can only really write Deutsch und Svenska, eher fehlerreiches Deutsch und svenska! Mina kunskaper är ganska ringrustiga when it comes to writing :). Jag trot att DITT spel är ideal to learn and develop language skills and knowledge of linguistics.

Du skulle också ta del i ditt spel. Being a Swedish speaker and learner of German you can recognise Germanic words, and for rounds in other languages, the name of the game is to STJÄLA!, so you can still take part :) :)

In the words of Sweidoneska-Abba "Tackrima karsih för spelet"!!
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Malin Elisabeth Nilsson, thank you very very much (or tackrima kärsih) for the long post for us :)

Nope, it's not silly, I would more or less do that also while listening to those powerful songs (is it called power ballads?).

And trust me, I know that feeling. You guys have shown/opened me a path to linguistics. I am one of those guys who thinks that we should be an expert in a field every 11 years (I forgot the original infographic where I saw this), and I am doing IT for 10 now... Time for a new field (I am thinking about law or linguistics -- both of them are somehow another form of programming)

Don't worry, limit of languages never stop all of us from beating the rounds (sometimes almost -- hence the Ställ in the flag, but someone will beat it). Just like you, I can only speak 2 languages properly (English and Indonesian). Don't worry, it's all part of the struggle. Those who knows more languages than us are probably laughing at us right now :P

The Hall of Fame existed in the form of a sortable Språkspelers List:
By wins: http://sprogspelet.arwi.im/history/sprakspelers/?sort=win_count&desc=1
By number of posts: http://sprogspelet.arwi.im/history/sprakspelers/?sort=post_count&desc=1

As you can see, the team lead for Sveindo conlang is the top guy :D And the most talkative person is..... Well, ställa, me :P

About new group, I also vote for keeping us close to our roots, the Omniglot Fan Club. Until there's enough vote to drive us into exodus :P

(Btw, I used Språkspeler instead of proper Språkspelare on Professor Emeritus Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström's suggestion, on another thread)

' Arief
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Sarah Karoline, was that Sveman language? :P
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Arief : That was my contribution to Sveman - a special form as it contains errors :) hahaha

I'm reading through the overnight posts, and I noticed the link to the unabridged history of the game you sent me. I used Edit, Find to find the words I was looking for. So unabridged is "nema problema" as the Balkan community of Sweden would say! haha

I have 5 wins, but the third highest speaker, and I haven't played the game continuously since July! hahahaha
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo And a Sveindo person would say: kaninga prosalah :P
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Arief: And thank you for the website maintenance and development!!
I see we need another representative of Swedish for the game! Malin: (Can't tag!)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo (↑ Malin Elisabeth Nilsson, Sarah Karoline calls you)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Thanks, I was putting two of my hobbies together, probably known as Språkgramming :)
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Hahaha. A good word! What is it in Sweindo? :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Christian James Meredith, how would you mix programmering and pemrograman?
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith pemrograman -> (pen)programining? From pen-program-(n)in-ing
pen = from Indo
(n) = from Swedish
-in = from Indo (but sounds sorta North-Westernish too)
-ing = from Swedish :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Sarah Karoline, I guess båsagramining then :D
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Christian: Arief: [Can't tag!]
Is "båsagramining" "programming" ?
Penprogramining sounds a mouthful, so I like it.
My idea was penromaniering, but that sounds like someone who creates e-books. (Roman: Swedish/German for "novel")
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Have to exit to return to work again. Shall return later! Bis bald :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I was trying to mix språkspelet and programming to be språkgramming :P
So båsa (=språk), -gramining (=programming) :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Selaställemat eftersiang, Sarah Karoline!
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Aah, I am still not alert. Need to sleep 8 hours! haha
That's another word to add to the list!

Selaställemat eftersiang - bis bald :)
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Malin Christian Arief Maria (can't tag anyone else!) How about we throw open the question of whether this game should be part of a FB group, rather than on here, to other Omniglotters?

I think it should be on here, so everyone can take part, but I could also imagine that a 1000-post long thread may not be what non-players want. A difficuult question!

Christian: What do you think of yesterday's additions to Sweindo?!
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Entschuldigung, Sarah Karoline! Ich såg inte that du kallade på mig, tyvärr. I was in shower. Now I need to run to fix some föda to eat and then go to schule und Deutsche studieren! Au revour, mes amies! :D Thanks för your uppmuntran :D
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Hello, for a moment back to the game:has it been solved already?
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Is our game dying? :(
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Hello Maria I've not had a chance to read all the posts, but I think Kalisa's round is still on-going. It does seem to be incredibly quiet the few times I've logged in today. I've posted the text below:
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Here is Kalisa's text:
Trebuie să mergeți la dreapta, după aceea la stânga, și apoi drept înainte, și în jos pe scări.
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Sarah Karoline I have the translation (very easy) but in horrible english.. :(
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Maria When I first saw the text this morning, I couldn't suss anything out, other than the language. What is your translation? I won't steal it!
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner You have to go right, then left, after that move (go) straight ahead and down the stairs. (it's more or less word by word) Kalisa Hagen!!!
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner I found every single word in the dictionary! :)
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner You may steal it, that's what the game is about! :) Wondering when Kalisa will be back... and nobody else playing here.. :(
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline haha :) Your English phrasing is perfect - I'd use "go" instead of "move". Let's wait for Kalisa to tell you it's right! :) [Can't tag again]
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner the translation of inainta is "move, move forwards", so I used the literal translation :)
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Just call me fussy :)

I would feel guilty for stealing your work, although it's the name of the game. I also don't have another phrase at the moment. Sadly I'm going to working throughout the night :(
Дайте Нефть Из Баку
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Malin, you're not alone in this group-in-the-group. I only speak Italian and English fluently, my Russian is probably more limited than your English and the rest of my languages are at a scholastic level.
But we learn from each other, and every round gets us more and more interested in other languages. I love what we're making here and each and every one of you.

P.s.: I love your code-switching. :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo To recap:
Kalisa Hagen's round: Trebuie să mergeți la dreapta, după aceea la stânga, și apoi drept înainte, și în jos pe scări

Vincensiu Denis's guess: You (pl) must walk to the right, then afterwards to left, and after (forward)r right, and then down by the stairs....

Maria Weidner's guess: You have to go right, then left, after that move (go) straight ahead and down the stairs.

I am sooo sorry that I am very busy yesterday, got a facial recognition system demo system to go live :) I guess my workload is less today.

But my participation will be a bit less throughout this week, I've got to finish another project :)

The game isn't dying, in fact it just went thru a very touching moment. :'(
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith I'd not even bloody getting notifications anymore :P
Kalisa Hagen
Kalisa Hagen Trebuie să mergeți la dreapta, după aceea la stânga, și apoi drept înainte, și în jos pe scări.

OK, I *stole* the translation from my book. It's:

You must turn right, then left, and then straight ahead and down the stair. -or "You have to go/walk bla bla bla..."

Like I said, Vincensiu Denis was almost correct at first guess, except that he missed the "și apoi drept înainte-and then straight ahead" part.

At his second guess, I did not really catch "and after (forward)r right" and I waited for him to *explain* a little but he's still not showing up.

So, in order not to let the game stuck in this round, I've decided Maria Weidner wins.

By the way, Arief Wibowo, it turns out, "drept înainte" is easily found here:

http://enro.dict.cc/?s=drept+%C3%AEnainte
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Updated cheat to summon the boss: press → ← ↑ → ↓ :D
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I guess it has been a busy week for most of us, I have 2 projects in need of closure this week, Maria Weidner's new job, etc...

Btw, how's your new job, Maria?
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAryFIuRxmQ < someone sent me this and I really wanna use it.
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Hello! I still feel a little bit lost at the new school, let's see... I'll post a new game in a new thread in about 6 hours... just take your time all! :)
It really seems that we are more busy than usual this week. Have a nice day all! (Btw, I don't get any notifications either)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Speaking of no notification, it's 23 past 1,000 already!
(as if it was clock :P )

I think we should start new thread/post after 500 comments (instead of current practice of 1,000), what do you guys think?
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner Arief and Kalisa, do you get notifications?
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Wow, I was about to have a stab at translating this but I had no idea it had already been won.

Definitely time to start a new thread, 1000 was the old benchmark to start again anyway, but it looks like 700 is probably better?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Maria Weidner, I use our Live page to get notifications :D
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Or like this: once one of us realized missing notification, the next round starts in new thread
Kalisa Hagen
Kalisa Hagen No, I don't, Maria Weidner. The last notification I got was before my last comment.
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I don't get notified for Kalisa Hagen's last message in Facebook
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Great idea Arief!
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith (about when someone misses a notification)
Дайте Нефть Из Баку
Дайте Нефть Из Баку Tag me in the new thread, will you? I won't be able to login until evening (it's 9 a.m. now).
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo And I just realized the live page doesn't make sound in Firefox and Opera, because it only has mp3 audio. I have fixed it to include all HTML5-supported audio files :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Дайте Нефть Из Баку, you got it bro!
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Hello. I'm clocking in to see if there's a new round. I see there's not yet. Is there a new thread? It seems I've got everyone's notifications - 97 of them! :)
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Oh, notifications are rising... 113!
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Check if you get this notification.

Maria's new round is coming in about 5 hours :)

(I purposefully skip tagging)
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Yes, I've just got your notification. 114 notifications now, not all are from this thread though :) hihi
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo New movie of Christopher Nolan:
The Red Notificaations Rise
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline I should see that. I've got sound too in both this thread and on your språkspelet website! :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo A ha, Facebook is strange... I will make sure my upcoming social network system doesn't suffer same issues... Would be very ironic if it does :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo In my case, I only hear from my website...

By the way, anybody wanna guess where did I stjälcuri the sound from? :P
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Perhaps your new system could also count FB notifications too! haha There are a lot of alarms going off where I am, so I've got surround sound! haha
Where did you steal it from? Abba? :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo It was from an instant messaging aggregator website (something like imo.im or plus.im), that's now acquired by Google... Ring any bell? :P
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Hm... sorry, it doesn't. Oops... No bells :) Which bell should ring? :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo meebo.com :D My favorite IM site.
Now I am using imo.im (probably moving to plus.im for Skype support), but it doesn't feel like meebo...
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Sarah does a quick search in Google ... [I use computers every day, but sometimes it may appear I don't!]
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline I see it was purchased by Google in 2012. How easy/difficult is it to add sounds?
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline ...on a scale of 1 - translating a language and script we don't know :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Just the 6 lines in the screenshot I attached moments ago... In fact it could be one line...
6 lines = easy peasy :P

But I need to consult dictionaries (e.g., http://html5doctor.com/html5-audio-the-state-of-play/), can't recall the whole thing off the top of my head :P
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I would say about scale of 3 (because I did it in 3 minutes): convert and upload audios, search for implementation details, copy paste code, upload code :P
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Now notifications and sounds have gone from Omniglot and the live website. I had to refresh the page to see the message here in Omniglot.

3 minutes! hihi So that's like translating, hm..., basic Arabic for you! haha

That looks complicated to me. I recognis terms, but what they truly mean is something I'd need a dictionary for :) I find programming fascinating, but learning about programming languages (båsgraminering!) is on my to-do list! :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Sarah Karoline, learning programming languages is much easier than human ones, considering we only have three parent languages: FORTRAN (equivalent to Indo-European), LISP (maybe Sino-Tibetan), and SNOBOL
http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf

(I just finished my afternoon snack: kako-kako (chocolate cake))
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline Oh dear, notifications are completely gone! Perhaps they're snacking on kako-kako-kakoskyr!
I'd understand FORTRAN the most then. I'll find a manual! :)
How's the study of Sweindo coming along? I find it's best learned on a ship with Yngie at the helm!
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo FORTRAN are no longer in use (just like various upper-level Indo-European languages) :P

Probably start with Pascal, because it's most humane language.
Sample: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-pascal-1067.html
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Sweindo is on the way, will continue once we can get back to our ship -- right now most of Sweindo makers are working at the shore :D
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline I looked at the pascal site. I think I'll start with the primary school version :)
It's all go at the shore today. It feels like lunch time, so I'm going to exit for a while. :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Pascal was the only language in Indonesian Olympiad in Informatics (for high schoolers), I guess the reason is it's relatively easy to pick up.

And it uses the terminologies from English algorithms (e.g., begin, end, write, read, etc, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#Examples), such that throughout my college, I insisted to write those "English algorithms" in Pascal :P Yea, I was the nerd :P

Enjoy the lunch, Sarah Karoline :) I am going to heed the calling of the waters
Sarah Karoline
Sarah Karoline I shall see what I can learn whilst snacking :)
Writing it in Pascal is fun. Why not personalise learning, I say! hihi
Enjoy the water, Arief! :) [Tagging is back!]
Maria Weidner
Maria Weidner In 10 minutes... :)
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