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Dung3onMast3r
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O.P. Translating insult easter egg
I've recently discovered the /insult easter egg (which is incredibly funny for those who had played Monkey Island). But as most of my contacts don't speak english, it is not as enjoyable as it could be. In coming versions of Messenger Plus, wouldn't it be a great feature to have this easter egg in our language? And moreover, shouldn't it stop being an easter egg?
05-29-2004 06:58 PM
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RE: Translating insult easter egg
I think Patchou has already decided not to translate this game... it's a bit of a mess to do so.
05-29-2004 07:18 PM
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RE: Translating insult easter egg
Indeed, the strength of the game (also in Monkey Island) is the use of the English language as a means to rhyme and instead of swordfighting... If you're gonna translate that, much will be lost...
And afterall, it is based upon an English game and it is 'only' an easter-egg, so... ;)
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05-29-2004 07:42 PM
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RE: Translating insult easter egg
:^) It's too bad
05-29-2004 08:42 PM
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Then I'll have to start thinking about making it by myself as a plugin :P. But I don't agree that much will be lost, as the original game was translated and worked fine.
Anyway, thank you very much for that info :)
05-29-2004 11:35 PM
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RE: Translating insult easter egg
I think that translating it to each language using slightly (or not so slightly) different words compared to the English language would be much better!
I'd like to do it, for one...And it'd certainly rule if the tranlators have enough imagination!

This post was edited on 05-30-2004 at 12:01 AM by Sovjohn.
05-30-2004 12:00 AM
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RE: Translating insult easter egg
Many people complained when Monkey Island was translated because it lost many good jokes. It's the same as subtitling some humoristic programs. You can add a joke again by translation, but you'll never catch the original true humor that was in it and intended.
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05-30-2004 03:45 AM
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Wth??????????????I was just playing with the /insult and the freakin word fight thing came up...And I ran outa time..How I get it back?????????
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RE: Translating insult easter egg
type /insult again, it'll give a reply and then your contact will go and the list will come up again
05-30-2004 05:43 AM
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O.P. RE: Translating insult easter egg
If you run out of time and the window closes, there is no way of re-opening that window, you've lost! :D
You can start a new duel typing /insult again.
05-30-2004 08:48 AM
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