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Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
I came up with a potentially fun game, so I'm gonna try it out and see if it's any good.

The game is called Mistranslation.

Someone says two English words, and the goal is to find a path from the first word to the second word in as few steps as possible. The possible steps are:

  • Translation: You may translate your word from any language to any other language. Verbs may be conjugated as pleased. In languages with inflection, words may also be inflected as pleased.
  • Homophone/Homograph: You may take a word from any language that sounds the same or is spelled the same as your word.

An example:

I say "Yes" and "Shark".

Someone could then connect the words as follows:

1: Yes (English)
2: Hai (Japanese) Translation
3: Haai (Dutch) Homophone
4: Shark (English) Translation

Whenever someone finds a path, they get a point, and can post two new words. Do try to make sure your two words are solvable before posting them though.

If you find a shorter solution to two words that have been posted earlier, you get two points, but do not get to post new words.

Let's see where this goes!

"The" and "Nun"

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Score:

Neversilent: 1
NeverSilent
Got any Dexreth amulets?
6299
That one was quite tough to solve.

1: The (English)
2: La (Spanish) Translation
3: لا (Pronounced "La") (Arabic) (Homophone)
4: Non (French) Translation
5: Non (Dutch) Homograph
6: Nun (English) Translation


New words:
"Corn" and "Bill"
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
I suspect there aren't many people on the welp forum who are fluent in dozens of languages.
InfectionFiles
the world ends in whatever my makerscore currently is
4622
This was born to not live long. There isn't much fun here universally to be had. Just gotta get your Google on.
Jeroen_Sol
Nothing reveals Humanity so well as the games it plays. A game of betrayal, where the most suspicious person is brutally murdered? How savage.
3885
Yeah, it was a bad idea I had while tossing and turning and unable to sleep.

It was only an experiment anyway. Clearly it didn't work.
Sometimes things work on paper, but not on the internet.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32388
I have a friend that would play this game, and she would totally rock.

I guess it kind of helps that in addition to several modern languages, she also knows several languages that haven't been spoken for centuries.
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