That's hilariously awesome. I would totally play that game.

hahahahaha that is hilarious. i'd love to play if it starts next week.

Holy shit! I came up with a good idea!

And that famous Bent chick likes it!

im in =D can yall read chinese?

There isn't a China in diplomacy so it wouldn't matter, but I can read pinyin like a pro :)

I'm in. I'd like to be Russia so I can write in Cyrillic.

Although I know I don't have a choice :(

I would so play that. Use babelfish.altavista.com.

Is babelfish as terrible as google trans? Google has a truly atrocious translator that thinks of word order as optional to regard, and pointless to understand.

i just thought of a possible glitch. what if someone actually speaks the language of the country (like english, for example) - then what? especially if another player *also* speaks that language.

i know it's hard to imagine, but say i was england. i speak english, and the player who is germany, she *also* speaks english. then, i don't run my stuff through the translator, and she understands perfectly....

Polyglots have a natural advantage, of course, but the point of translating it directly from English to whatever language using a poor software makes it pretty damn confusing even if you speak the language, what with synonyms and things. given the majority English community here, though, There ought to be suggestions as to what language England has to use. I vote Hindi, given the British Empire

I speak Klingon so it only makes sence that England speaks Swaheelies and I get Birds of Prey. For those uneduactuded Swaheelies is spoken by French people with Heelies. Also I like turtles and that hippotamus keeps looking at me funny? I don"t know!
P.S. I am a zergling and kan turn into an exploding chipmunk with walnuts. So how did you get those scars on your face from eating PINEAPPLES?????? I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this mothefucking plane. Exerybody strapps I'm about to open some fucking toilets filled with pineapples and walnuts.

I'm afraid your particular form of clever anti-humor is rather anti-humorous, Noob.

are you quoting from movies noob...? i believe i heard "snakes on a plane"... horrible movie...

Forsoothe I dothst be quoting the greatest movie evar! Snakes on a Plane is truly a testament to mankinds grace and beauty.

Well fuck you, it's highly irrelevant.

hey kaiser... that last message was rather obscene... can't we have some civility...?

Civility doesn't necessarily mean an avoidance of profanity. It is merely treating people and subjects with due gravity.

abso-fucking-lutely not

That's the way I understand it.

I vote Spanish for England. It's the most common language (other than chinese) not covered by the 7 powers.

It would be common, but that might be a tad unfortunate, given the point is obfuscation.

Hindu makes the most sense. Although maybe we could use Cockney rhyming slang for England.

*hindi*

When is this happening? I'd be totally down.

It would probably be more fair to have Austria speak Hungarian rather than German.

I suggest a parallel variant using the languages of the other centers, like Tunisian Arabic or Norwegian.

Alright, I'm setting up the game. The languages are
England: Hindi (it's indo-European and works historically)
France: French
Germany: German
Italy: Italian
Austria-Hungary: Hungarian
Russia: Russian
Turkey: Modern Turkish, as ottoman Turkish would be hard to find a translator for. We could use farsi, which is similar, but it wouldn't be very turkish, would it.

Remember, ever communication must be English, transliterated into your country's language. It makes it more fun if you don't correct the grammar of the translation, if you speak the language.

the password is "pangloss"