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thatwasawkward (4690 D(B))
04 Feb 11 UTC
Decent players needed. Global gunboat.
150 point buy-in. Four have already signed up. We have three days to find thirteen more people.

gameID=48687
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patizcool (100 D)
04 Feb 11 UTC
live game
2 more quick
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=49133
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Big Brother (103 D)
03 Feb 11 UTC
Can an army in North Africa move to Spain?
Can an army in North Africa move to Spain via land in Europe map?
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AncientMemories (635 D)
03 Feb 11 UTC
Suggestions
So, I probably haven't been here long enough to be talking, but I was reading a thread someone linked about wanting the ability to do multilateral messaging, and I had an idea I thought might be nice, so I figured I would say it here as well as a couple other things I think might be cool.
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gollumullog (171 D)
03 Feb 11 UTC
World Diplomacy IX: Map discrepancy
I note that on the map for World Diplomacy IX, the Bering Strait is labelled BrS on the right, and BSt on the left, the main variant map: http://www.variantbank.org/results/rules/w/world8-2.gif

Lists it as: BrS, it should reflect this.
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centurion1 (1478 D)
31 Jan 11 UTC
gunboat strategy.
italies why are you always so dumb. what appeals to you so much about opening against austria. why cant one italy even one ever in a gunboat try to actually ally with austria. in the last like 10 games ive played her italy has opened against austria. you almost always end up sucking as a result while allying with austria often fares so much better.
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Tom Bombadil (4023 D(G))
03 Feb 11 UTC
Pause Etiquette Question/Opinions
I'd like to hear from the community regarding a pause etiquette issue. If a game is paused because someone is unable to log on for a certain time period, is it wrong to communicate with the other powers? I have always felt that it is unfair to discuss tactics while someone else is not there. It seems underhanded. On the other hand, I worry that I am putting myself at a disadvantage if other powers talk during a pause and I do not. I'd like to hear others thoughts about this.
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Thucydides (864 D(B))
03 Feb 11 UTC
Texas Diplomacy Society
Anyone who comes on this site looking for diplosoc who is lost, see inside of this thread.
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ibadibam (377 D)
03 Feb 11 UTC
France needed - 6SC/Gunboat
Player needed for gunboat game to fill 6SC France in Spring 1904. Good position, no turns missed (CD is result of a player being banned, not from missing turns).

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=48301
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Nylzxz (108 D)
03 Feb 11 UTC
Looking for live game (classic) tonight at 7:00 PST (-8)
Sorry I am new to this forum, I used to play on "play diplomacy" but they lack live games. IF there is a better place to post game requests I apologize in advance.
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LJ TYLER DURDEN (334 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Do NOT Post Cheating Accusations in the Forum
I'm really sick of that crap. It's not that hard to email the mods, and you'll get a much more expedient response by doing so.

And while I'm at it, use the "Advertise Your Live Games Here" thread for just that. Don't start new threads. Some people still don't get that simple idea.
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spyman (424 D(G))
02 Feb 11 UTC
Cyclone Yasi to hit Queenslanf
This a very serious storm, and it is going to hit Queensland tonight.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/how-cyclone-yasi-compares-around-the-world/story-fn7ik2te-1225998762870
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baumhaeuer (245 D)
30 Jan 11 UTC
Buthyr Bohabyr
Go pohea, ye Aberyhy. Hlutap hahaba subyp, yt hlutap do hahaba subyp. Zuyhatha bibap alyp. Torohyap Aberyhy, yr hahaba subyp, hlédedyza, rusen Aberyho. Zutsuhya sohyap u. Do hlédedyza. Hod bahaa bibap alyp. Arz abyap to bahaa. Azdam sohyap hahaba trusym. Baedam eda lo pohea. Azdym.
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fiedler (1293 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
baum appears to be a star wars freak - so is it one of those 6 million + languages?
Baskineli (100 D(B))
01 Feb 11 UTC
baumhaeuer, don't tell us what it is. I find it interesting and challenging.

Here are my thoughts for now:

Go pohea, ye Aberyhy.
Aberyhy and Aberyho are the same word. Most likely this are single and multiple forms of the same word. The whole text is a speech to someone, IMO. So, the person that is being addressed is Aberyhy, and he is part of Aberyho. (For example, a father addressing his son, while he has many sons). However, the capital letter makes me think this is something more unusual, sort of addressing people with a capital P (People). Further more, "ye" reminds me of a way to address people in Arabic, "ya". Similar to "Go to bed, ya my son".

Hlutap hahaba subyp, yt hlutap do hahaba subyp.
Same sentence repeated, with two changes - yt and do. My bet is that yt is "and" and "do" is "no". The sentence is something like "You understand me, and you don't understand me". (The translation is bogus, but I am talking about structure).

Zuyhatha bibap alyp.
When I look at the word "alyp", I cannot ignore the word "subyp" in previous sentence. Both end with "p" or "yp". So, probably this is some sort of grammatical ending, like English "ed" or "ing". This leads me to think that both "subyp" and "alyp" are verbs.

Torohyap Aberyhy, yr hahaba subyp, hlédedyza, rusen Aberyho.
Again "p" in the end of "Torohyap" and "subyp". After "Torohyap" there is "Aberyhy", which is a noun as we understood before, so in agreement with the previous "p" analysis, "Torohyap" is a verb. Furthermore, "rusen" is probably a word used to describe Aberyho.

Zutsuhya sohyap u.
Again, "p" makes "sohyap" a verb.

Do hlédedyza.
"Do" as we understood from the second sentence, is "no". Does it make "hlédedyza" a verb? A noun? Adjective? Somehow, it shouts me for "No more.", but it is totally gut feeling, nothing more.

Hod bahaa bibap alyp.
Arz abyap to bahaa.
Azdam sohyap hahaba trusym.
Baedam eda lo pohea.
Azdym.

I have to go now, but Azdym is one word that ends the speech, so it is most likely "Good bye" or "Good luck" (in most languages it is only one word, not two like in English).

Notice the similarity between Azdam and Azdym. Same word, different shape.

To be continued.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
01 Feb 11 UTC
so close to getting a googlewhack... if only kestas would change the robots files... :(

http://www.google.com/search?q=pohea+Aberyhy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Draugnar (0 DX)
01 Feb 11 UTC
My google searches for Aberyho all came up with ".CZ" extensions. Seeing as CZ is the Czech Republic, I naturally went there. Is there another language used in over there?
Draugnar (0 DX)
01 Feb 11 UTC
Azdym is a Polish word, it seems. Could it be many languages that use a similar sentence structure where he picked and chose his words carefully?
ulytau (541 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
-ho is a Czech suffix for genitive and accusative of living masculine gender. You can put it after any made-up word that fulfills these conditions. The only way you could use word Abery in Czech is when it is a name of someone because it is not an actual meaningful Czech word. Just because the suffix used is (not neccessarily only) Czech doesn't mean the language is Czech. If you tried to find Aberyhy, you would see no links to Czech pages because -hy is not a Czech suffix. I already told you that this text is not in any Slavic language so please, stop holding to that delusion.
Draugnar (0 DX)
01 Feb 11 UTC
So, the pages I found with Aberyho on .cz, meant Abery was a name. K. But back to the point. Ignoring whether that specific word was Czech or not, could this be many languages combined together?
SacredDigits (102 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
Romany is also spoken in parts of the Czech Republic, so maybe that?
ulytau (541 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
Romani don't have a letter "y" which is prevalent in that excerpt. When I saw the text, at first I thought it was some kind of Turkic dialect but I was apparently wrong.
Draugnar (0 DX)
01 Feb 11 UTC
@ulytau - are you from the Slavic region of the world, per chance? Just wondering because your knowledge is quite impressive.
ulytau (541 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
Yes, I'm from the Czech Republic ;)
figlesquidge (2131 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
@bask - agreed. Just wanted to know if we were after language or cypher to make it reasonable to *try* and crack!

I'm wondering, have we looked through the standard sci-fi/Tolkienesque worlds?
Draugnar (0 DX)
01 Feb 11 UTC
He claimed it was a real language, which to me indicates not a fictional one or a cypher.
Tolstoy (1962 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
Is this in the Ural-Altaic language family?
Draugnar (0 DX)
01 Feb 11 UTC
Oh and I can confirm it isn't Klingon, Vulcan, Romulan, Quenyan, or Sindarin. And I'm pretty certain it isn't Wookie either.
yebellz (729 D(G))
01 Feb 11 UTC
King Droid suggested that it was Breton in the first reply.

Google translate with "detect language" selected says that it currently does not support translation from Breton to English.

A cipher would be highly unlikely. Ciphers do not generally produce pronounceable words with common syllables and structure.
orathaic (1009 D(B))
01 Feb 11 UTC
there is a sci-fi language based on Solresol... it's called sarus, but it appears not to ahve any Y.
ulytau (541 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
I'm currently skimmimg through translations of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, looking for a language with similarly looking words. I hope the language uses latin alphabet. I also like Tolstoy's suggestion, it rehabilitates my guess at some Turkic language.
Tolstoy (1962 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
If it used a Latin alphabet we would've gotten it by now. I was thinking Ural-Altaic because it sounds very very vaguely Turkic or like Magyar, but haven't been able to find anything. That guess may be wrong.

This is a LIVING language, right baum?
Jamiet99uk (808 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
It's not Magyar or anything else Hungarian, Tolstoy. That was one of my first thoughts, but no matches.
Spryboy (103 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Is the language called "Buthyr Bohabyr?"
Kingdroid (219 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
^ Good thinking, but when googled. that returns no results.
Spryboy (103 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
:(
Kingdroid (219 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
I think the constant use of 'y' will give us the biggest clue.
butterhead (90 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
translator I use says it is either Slavic, Czech, or filipino.
Spryboy (103 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
They keep saying that it is not Slavic or Czech, but no one has ever mentioned Filipino, you may be on something...
ibadibam (377 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
It doesn't look Ugric or Altaic, because there doesn't seem to much variation in vowel length. And the passage is too short to conclusively say whether it's an agglutinative language, as most Central Asian languages are. In some ways it looks like examples I've seen of Berber. It might be related, but the consonants don't really look right for an Afro-Asiatic language.
ibadibam (377 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
I think there's way too much z for it to be Filipino.
Spryboy (103 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
@baumhauer: I ask for one hint: Does the language have at least 50 million speakers?
abgemacht (1076 D(G))
02 Feb 11 UTC
Is it bigger than a breadbox?

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LJ TYLER DURDEN (334 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
The Russian Revolution, 1917
I've got a class on the subject above, and I've got a 10-12 page paper to write in the same topic. I was wondering if the webdip community has any ideas on what I could write about. Just keep in mind that it needs to be at least ten pages and the scope is revolutionary activity in 1917 only, the Civil war in 1918 and later is off-limits. That being said, any suggestions welcome.
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Kingdroid (219 D)
03 Feb 11 UTC
need a new Germany
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=47705

Old Germany got banned, anyone up to play?
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centurion1 (1478 D)
03 Feb 11 UTC
high stakes live game.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=48995

usually i would use the thread but its relatively high stakes.
join up yall
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goldfinger0303 (3157 DMod)
03 Feb 11 UTC
Ancient Med game starting in one hour
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=48662 Please join. We need one more!!! Password is diplomacy.
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mongoose998 (294 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Question about CD's and NMR's
I that if a nation NMR's for two turns stragiht, they CD. do retreats and builds count for the two turns required for a CD?
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Zachattack413 (1231 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Help Writing Order!!
I'm playing a world diplomacy game and I'm trying to convoy a unit to Yakutsk from the Northwest Territories via my fleets in Beaufort Sea and Arctic Circle, but when I try to save my orders it says the orders parameter "fromTerrID" set to invalid value '21'. Does anybody know what this means??? Its gameID=46582 if anybody wants to take a look
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goldfinger0303 (3157 DMod)
29 Jan 11 UTC
High Quality Ancient Med Game
40 pot, anon, WTA. Looking for High quality players. Post if you're interested. Game is Rome Redone
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gollumullog (171 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Left: Players that left the game, questions
I have a player that left the game in our game. Will his units issue no orders from now on, or will they support each other?

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sacredgnome (244 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
JOIN THE WORLD GAME!
48885 is the game id. It starts in about a half hour. We need more people.
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GuillC (100 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Question about the rules.
See next message.
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gigantor (404 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Setting up Stalemate Lines
...how?
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MadMarx (36299 D(G))
01 Feb 11 UTC
Portland, Oregon: F2F Game Sat. Feb. 19th at 11am.
I can't make it due to my grandmother-in-law's 90th birthday party, but if interested let me know and I'll get you in contact with the host.
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TitanX7 (134 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
World Map, 1 day turns, open chat.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=48499

Pw is redfred
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Dorian (207 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
Vacation
I am going on an unexpected vacation - have to go on camp in the African bush with 90 teenagers! No Internet access! How can I set an absence in my game (luckily only one) ???
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patizcool (100 D)
02 Feb 11 UTC
Why did my support fail?
Anyone know why my support Spain to Marsellies with my unit in Burgandy failed?

http://webdiplomacy.net/map.php?gameID=48846&turn=12&mapType=large
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figlesquidge (2131 D)
01 Feb 11 UTC
I hate drivers
Specifically, the ones commenting on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12334486
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Dpddouglass (908 D)
30 Jan 11 UTC
Looking for committed players for a 2 day World Map
Btw it is public press, PM me for the password, thanks.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=48377
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