Reply With QuoteYour ineptitude makes me belligerent and so I declare vendetta on your operation!
I have problems with the words the faction leaders use and often have to bring up the dictionary. Do you people have similar problems?
Your ineptitude makes me belligerent and so I declare vendetta on your operation!
Are you making fun of me or is this a joke?
I would guess both.
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
dictionary?
mi ynglzh iz alzo nod weri koot, to nod vory, mani piple not unterstat mi tu
Translation: Mijn engels is ook niet zo goed, wees niet ongerust, veel mensen begrijpen mij ook niet.Originally posted by mart7x5
mi ynglzh iz alzo nod weri koot, to nod vory, mani piple not unterstat mi tu
Now I wonder how that would come back translated in english.
Kadang-kadang kita lupa masih ada orang di dunia yang tidak berbahasa Inggris.
Tapi, bahasa Inggris 'kan salah satu bahasa nasional Canada?
Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
Yes these are big words for me.Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
d=me, please don't tell me you consider those to be big words.
What's your problem? why are you always against me?Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I would guess both.
Well, I see I've stumbled into a bitter succession struggle here. I'll come back.
Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
It's just SMAC talk.Originally posted by d=me
Yes these are big words for me.
He is not against you, it is just his style.Originally posted by d=me
What's your problem? why are you always against me?
I hope you aren`t serious with this thread.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --G.B.Shaw
Wait, maybe English isn't his native tongue? Or perhaps he's really young? I mean, at age 12, how many of you knew what 'magnanimous' meant? (for the sake of avoiding pretension please do NOT answer this entirely rhetorical question)
At that age, I quickly realised what seething ment. I did not understand some words, but I certainly didn`t need a dictionary.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --G.B.Shaw
d=me,
we are just joking here. As for me, I am not native english speaker myself. Many words I do not understand either right away, just need dictionary for that. Languages usually have thousands of words, my biggest English Dictionary has like over 300,000 words. Hardly it is possible to know all of them all the time. I also need to use my native language dictionary too sometimes. Imagine for example traditional Japanese written language. Learning languages is dynamic process for life. You may speak a language whole your life and yet still not know every of its word. Yes, SMAC thaught me some new words. ...like belligerent for example.
As an aside, I'd just like to say how cool it was of the designers to use terms like 'magnanimous', 'belligerent', 'solicitous' and 'seething' instead of bland 'happy', 'annoyed', 'angry' etc. Just another one of those little details that makes SMAC so much more engaging.
How nicely put ProvostOriginally posted by TheProvost
As an aside, I'd just like to say how cool it was of the designers to use terms like 'magnanimous', 'belligerent', 'solicitous' and 'seething' instead of bland 'happy', 'annoyed', 'angry' etc. Just another one of those little details that makes SMAC so much more engaging.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --G.B.Shaw
d=me, as well as English you can get SMAC in several other languages. A few were put out by Firaxis but I believe our 'community' here and elsewhere has expanded from that base.
I think you mis-interpreted my comments.Originally posted by d=me
What's your problem? why are you always against me?
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
I didn't know what magnanimous meant until I started playing civ2
Usually, I don't have those problems, because in many cases, a written version of the texts is included somewhere in the game. But there is one thing that puzzles me:
When I quit the game, it's always quoted here in the forum as "... the drones are looking up to you". I can do what I want but the second word never matches "drones".
Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?
the drones need you.
they look up to you.
Really have a life outside SMAC?
> Yes, I want to have a job and a partner and a life
> No, SMAC is all I need. Teach those drones a lesson!
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
Gelieve te gaan niet. De hommels vereisen u. Zij kijken tot u.
Veuillez ne pas aller. Le besoin de bourdons vous. Ils regardent jusqu'à vous.
Bitte gehen Sie nicht. Die Drohnenotwendigkeit Sie. Sie schauen bis zu Ihnen.
Παρακαλώ μην πηγαίνετε. Οι κηφήνες σας χρειάζονται. Κοιτάζουν μέχρι σας.
Non vada prego. Il bisogno dei ronzi voi. Osservano fino voi.
Por favor não vá. A necessidade dos zangões você. Olham até você.
Пожалуйста не пойдите. Потребность трутней вы. Они смотрят до вас.
No vaya por favor. La necesidad de los abejones usted. Miran hasta usted.
(worldlingo.com)
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Just having a little fun with a handy website I know about. There's a funny little problem in a few of those translations, though: When you translate them back to English, drones comes back as bumblebees!
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --G.B.Shaw
To dutch it's literally translated as: Kindly not go. The bumblebees need you. They look at you.Originally posted by gwillybj
Just having a little fun with a handy website I know about. There's a funny little problem in a few of those translations, though: When you translate them back to English, drones comes back as bumblebees!
gwillybj, your russian is incorrect!
EDIT - it is the russian text made unreadable by my stupid machineÏîæàëóéñòà íå ïîéäèòå. Ïîòðåáíîñòü òðóòíåé âû. Îíè ñìîòðÿò äî âàñ.
in english is:
Please dont go to.
(not "go away" but "go to". russians have many "go's")
Need drones you.
sounds quite nice,but a normal russian will gowhen you say him this, he wont understand it so as it is meant
They look till you
"do bac" is not right - "ha bac" is right. In cyrillic of course
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Hah!
The German one is pretty wrong too
Notwendigkeit is the noun for need (As in "they felt the need")
The drones "brauchen Sie" is more like it
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