ATQUIDHODIENOOB

I might be interested. I demand very long phases though (3 days maybe?). There's only so much Latin I can take in a day.

I peaksay igpay atinlay.

Could there be anything nerdier than playing diplomacy in Latin?

Yes. Don't ask.

I would say playing in Klingon, but at that point you're really just playing Gunboat.

More chainsaw than gunboat.

What's nerdy about Klingon? It's the badassesst of languages.

I would say that playing in Latin is Gunboat in and of itself...talking to people in English is hard enough. Talking to them with an obscure language?

What you meant to say: Hello there!
What they see: DIE DIE DIE I WILL KILL YOU DIE STAB

@Halt, anyone playing will be relatively fluent. Latin's not THAT obscure.

There are still people fluent in Latin?

But...why? It's a dead language.

Wouldn't that give Rome an unfair advantage?

@ghug: id be willing to do long phases. Ill provide vocab for basic diplomacy phrases

TOTUS VESTRI BASES SUNT PENES ME

That'll teach 'em.

@Halt, we learn it in school. I took it because my high school cancelled the language I had been taking (French) and I didn't want to take Spanish 1 with all of the idiots. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I learned a lot, it gave me really interesting insights into history and linguistics, and it was a lot of fun.

only if I can say nothing but "Romanes eunt domus," over and over again.

rofl redhouse that can only mean one thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

Latin will be difficult to communicate in, but really, I took three years. There is no word order either, so you could probably get away with using a translator unlike most languages anymore. Of the four languages I know, it is certainly the simplest, and it is probably the easiest for English speakers other than German.

That's right YJ :-)
You can stick it in translate.google.com and see it comes out right :D

Gods, can you say anything more ignorant, bo_sox? There is /relatively free/ word order, not "no word order." If you had three years of Latin, I shouldn't have to point this out to you, much less explain it.

And Halt, yes, there are quite a few of us who write and read Latin every day. Some of us even do Greek and Sanskrit and Hittite.

However, I will be obtaining from this game. I have too many going on right now as is. If only this had been posted prior to the Around the World Map Gunboat tournament, I would have had time....

*abstaining, damn autocorrect.

haha it does! And Romani ite domum gives the same result...

lol google translate is shit

Okay, thanks dub. Yeah, I could find something much more ignorant to say, don't make me try. I could always say that 9/11 was Bush's fault or something. Hell, it could be Obama's fault. Al Gore did it? What do you want from me?

Dub, come on, play. I'm busy applying to college and playing the damn world gunboat tournament and I'm still doing it.

Also, red, try "OMNIACASTRAVESTRANOBISSUNT"

Imanagedtotranslatethatdespitethefactthattherewerenospacesinthatsentence :-)

THATSHOWYOUWRITELATINALLUPERCASEANDNOSPACESORPUNCTUATIONITSREALLYFUCKINGANNOYINGDONTYOUTHINK

NOGHUGITSAWESOMETHEROM
ANSWOULDEVENBREAKUPWOR
DSINTHEMIDDLEWITHOUTTHINK
INGOFTHECONSEQUENCESTOF
UTUREREADERS#FUCKGHUG

I know very little Latin so probably shouldn't play but like the idea (I took 1 latin course, I know the first 3 declensions and conjugations, I could probably use google translate if vocabulary that I am unfamiliar comes up.)

There was no # symbol in Latin, dub.

I also wasn't writing in Latin. Funny how that works.

No shit.

BOSOXXLVIIFATUISSIMUSES
THOCDICTOOMNESNOSTRIL
AETISIMMUSSITACEAT

#DUBMDELLUSTEPEDICA

@Fasces, how much grammar do you know? Vocab will only get you so far if you can't identify our constructions.

Google translate for Latin is a horrible idea. They provide the shittiest translations (I'm subscribed to the Latin subreddit, and 25% of the posts there involve correcting people before they permanently mark their bodies with tattoos they got from google translate, so I've seen quite a bit of what it does). For some reason, they can't process declensions of nouns and conjugations of verbs. If you want a useable English-Latin translator, Whittaker's Words is best (google it; I'm on mobile), and wiktionary can be decent.

@ghug First 3 declensions and conjugations in present and future tense. I know very littke vocabulary though, hence why I will probably need to use google translate for some (most) words.

I akso don't know word order but some people tell me word order doesn't matter (and ofhers say it does if you take Latin later in later university years).

So it's probably not enough to play right?

Word order is very important.