The Last Post Game!!!!

[Griffin NoName]

Never mind the blasted Last Post, I nearly didn't click on THAT thread as I intuited that by clicking on it and reading it, I would be losing the game.

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[beagle]

But Qwerty has been thinking about the game but not posted anywhere that he's lost. Whereas I'll admit it.

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[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

yes... yess... it's a cruel, cruel world..... in which I lost the game.

god damnit...

~Qwerty

[beagle]

And this one too.

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[Vita Curator]

ARRRGHHH  Last "where the 'ell did global warmin' go Post.

[Swatopluk]

Into hot water I presume.

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[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

So, who didn't lose the game?

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[Swatopluk]

Something completely different: Does anybody here has enough knowledge of Russian to translate this for me?

ГУСЛЯРЫ 
Вещие, звонкие струны рокочут
Громкую славу царю Берендею.
Долу опустим померкшие очи.
Ночи.
Мрак безрассветный смежил их навечно
Зрячею мыслью, рыскучей оглянем
Близких соседей окрестные царства.

Что мне звенит на заре издалече?
Слышу и трубы и ржание коней,
Рати с зарания по полю скачут,
По полю скачут.
Плачут.
Жёны на стенах и башнях высоких:
Лад наших милых не видеть нам боле,
Милые гибнут в незнаемом поле.
Чести и славу князям добывая,
Ломят и гонят дружины, дружины;
Ратаи черными авранами рыщут.
Прыщут.
Стрелы дождем по щитам вороненым;
Гремят мечи, о шеломы стальные,
Сулицы скрозь прободают доспехи.
 
Веселый грады в стране берендеев,
Радостны песни по рощам и долам,
Миром красна Берендея держава.
Слава, слава в роды и роды блюстителю мира!
Струны баянов греметь не престанут
Славу златому столу Берендея.

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[goat starer]

I tried transliterating the first line from cyrillic to western alphabet. It came out as....

Veshchie zvonkie struny rokochut

but online translation from russian to english thinks this is rubbish so I can help you not!

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[Griffin NoName]

Have sent Russian to myself so I can forward it from elsewhere to someone else for translation, if it survives the journey.

Does anyone know how THAT game is ever won?

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[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

I thought the game's intention is to be lost...

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[Griffin NoName]

Then I've won. But Q told me I'd lost. Maybe that actually means he has lost. 

Sending myself Russian doesn't work. I think it needs to be held in a Word doc "with language". Unless there are now world experts who can decode scrabbled eggs. I suppose I could send a screen dump. But I'm tired like the last poster who just lost last.

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[beagle]

I think it may have lost something in translation, but here is the story so far:

LYRE PLAYERS prophetic, ringing strings rokochut loud glory to tsar Berendeyu. To dolu let us lower the pomerkshiye eyes. Nights. Gloom gloomy smezhil by their forever sighted thought, ryskuchey let us examine close neighbors surrounding reigns. What to me does ring at the dawn izdaleche? I hear both pipes and neigh of horses, army from zaraniya on the field they skip, they skip on the field. They cry. Wives on walls and towers of the high: The harmony of our dears not to see to us pains, dears they perish in the neznayemom field. Honors and glory to knyazyam obtaining, break and chase guards, guards; Ratai by black avranami will rove. Tyuey pryshchut. Arrows by rain on the panels blued; Thunder swords, against shelomy steel, Sulitsy of skroz' perforate armors. Merry hail in the country of berendeyev, are glad song on the groves and dolam, by peace Berendeya is red power. Glory, glory into the kinds and the kinds to the guardian of peace! The strings of accordions to thunder not prestanut glory to the zlatomu table Of berendeya.


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[Griffin NoName]

So, if this is the kind of stuff Swato likes, we now know a whole lot more about Swato than we wanted to (sorry, speaking personally, that is).

On the other hand, Beagle's Russian seems odd. So maybe it's him we need to worry about.

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[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Beagle's translation is the one you get from Babelfish.

I tried the same thing, but decided it was more odd than comprehensible.

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