Great stuff Rincewind! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
How did you manage to do it? I did a much cruder job, just symbol by symbol, which gave me all the characters but not any of the layout or word breaks.
I haven't had time to plough through it all but about half of the words seem translatable so far with the program I found here:
English/Russian translator I can't vouch for its safety or accuracy, but there are lots of links to it on the net and it passed through my virus checks OK.
Some of the words are easy to translate:
k= to
c = with
Ho = but
N (backwards) = and
But the longer ones take a bit of cracking. The first word in the post title apparently means "on or about" and the third means "fetters or shackles". The second word might be a variation of the word meaning "play or game" and the last word looks like it might be connected to one that means "luck or fortune".
If anybody else wants to have a crack at it there are several steps:
1. Get Rincewind's translation into Cyrillic script
2. Go into Control Panel and set up your keyboard to have the option to type Cyrillic script.
3. Work out an "overlay" for your keyboard. I.e. type in QWERTYUIOP.. etc and see which Cyrillic characters come up. (This takes a while)
4. Type the words into a translator and see if you can make any sense of it!
It probably doesn't say anything all that earth shattering, but it's rather an intriguing puzzle. Just think of it as a more complex version of solving the Ranaar language in Beyond Divinity. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
