Game ID :gameID=201665 called language barrier.

Sounds potentially hilarious, I'm in! Except that I tried both passwords and neither appeared to work...

Though I would put the burden of translation on the sender, not the receiver. Otherwise the Englishman has a boring game and there's no incentive on the others to actually put what he sends through the translator... So England translates his message into French and then sends it to France, who runs it back through the translator. Or Germany translates his into German and then into French and sends it to France, who runs that result back through the translator...

good call on the order of translation..

I will re create game and post ID here..

New gameID=201734.

Password is translate

@ kench ; can you give one example of the sequence for a non english speaking communication and a example of the englnad player talking to the turkish . so we can agree on the rule setting.

I will advertise this game to some other players who I have played with if thats ok ..its a non ranked game so all good fun you do the same see if we can get this up and running..

How about: All press from and to England should be in the language of the non-English participant. Press conducted between non-English nations can use either of their two languages. Simple enough?

joined - sounds interesting - especially if we start calling eachother names haha

just asked smoky gem what about global press?

so I'm France - and I post something on global in french - everybody translates in their own language and responds accordingly?

yes I that is the idea..the global should go like chinese whispers in no time..

everyone make sure to buy your tylenol supplies before game starts - should get mega confusing very fast

Мне не нужен тайленол, я получаю высокую жизнь!

ok - so if i was france - i translate that into french - then back into english?

I had this idea a couple of years ago and we did it on vdip. After a few game years, it turned into somewhat of a gunboat because it was annoying to do the translation. So if you can come up with a way to pre-empt that, all the better.

ya that's what i'm worried about -- the amount of time, effort and difficulty in working out the multiple translations ... but should still be fun

I think it depends on how up for this people are. If they are happy to put in a little time to do the translations, then running it twice won't be a problem. But if we think it will eventually be a turn-off, then @LeonWalras has the best suggestion - that way everyone is only running the translation through the machine once, rather than most people having to do it twice and England only having to do it once.

@SmokeyGem Examples, assuming that everyone IRL only speaks English:

England - Turkey
England writes his press in English into the translation machine and translates it into Turkish. He sends the result to Turkey. Turkey runs that result through the translation machine back into English to find out what was said.

France - Turkey (under @LeonWalras situation)
France writes their press in English into the translation machine and translates it into either French or Turkish. They sent the result to Turkey. Turkey runs that result through the translation machine back into English to find out what was said.

France - Turkey (under my suggestion)
France writes their press in English into the translation machine and translates it into French. They run the result through the machine again and translate it into Turkish. They send the result to Turkey, who runs it through the machine into English.

Non-England - Global
The user writes their press into the translation machine and translates it into their country's language, posting the result on global.

England - Global
This is tricky. Given that there's no incentive on the other nations to translate what England writes, and England shouldn't have to write the same thing in five different languages, I think England could run the press through the translation machine five times consecutively and then back into English, posting the result? But I'm not sure...

But @Bladerunners is right - Tylenol is a definite necessity :)

Unless you're @LeonWalras, who gets a high life...

Or global could be for posting in english some of the more obscure results ??
and for general chat..

once we have decided lets lock that in..

The point is to have some fun and games..

I am In, and for me it is easy. As native German Speaker, I use Google translator from time to time :-)

I like that. Let's keep global fun :)

Using global to repost obscure results seems like it might end up revealing too much information of private conversation. I would be interested in global being used for non game conversation. Private conversations will be time consuming enough! Perhaps also, while French diplomacy to Turkey could be written in either French or Turkish, conversations with England should be only in the language of the Non-Anglo. Or was that said already?

Fair point! So global just for general chat. And for posting in whatever language you like :)

And yes, the point about all press to or from England being in the non-English language was suggested by Leonwalras I think... Glad we're all on the same page!

This game is great BTW. I'm having a fun!

May you have multiple funs in the future.

funs is the nice to have

Agreed with Mapu. Lets try it with the "Modern" or "Ancient Med" variant next time!

Humm can anyone write in Egyptian Hieroglyphs? And what language did the Carthaginian empire speak? It's all Greek to me, anyway...