Useful Phrases In Useless Languages

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For Go players who anticipate meeting fictional characters or other players who don't share a language, it can be useful to know how to ask for a game. Here are the most idiomatic (by consensus of SL patrons) phrases in various useless languages for:

  • asking someone for a game of Go
  • a likely response to accept a game
  • a likely response to decline a game
  • sportsman-like wishes to begin play
  • resignation
  • thanking the opponent after the game

Please help fill in the blanks and correct errors (or discuss below).

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English

English

Asking: "Would you like a game?"
Accept: "Yes"
Decline: "No thanks"
Begin: "Enjoy"; "Have a good game"
Resign: "I resign"
Thanks: "Thanks for the game"

International languages

Esperanto

Asking: "" ("")
Accept: "" ("")
Decline: "" ("")
Begin: "" ("")
Resign: "" ("")
Thanks: "" ("")

Fictional languages

Klingon

Asking: "" ("")
Accept: "" ("")
Decline: "" ("")
Begin: "" ("")
Resign: "" ("")
Thanks: "" ("")

Quenya

Asking: "" ("")
Accept: "" ("")
Decline: "" ("")
Begin: "" ("")
Resign: "" ("")
Thanks: "" ("")

Sindarin

Asking: "" ("")
Accept: "" ("")
Decline: "" ("")
Begin: "" ("")
Resign: "" ("")
Thanks: "" ("")

Westron

Asking: "" ("")
Accept: "" ("")
Decline: "" ("")
Begin: "" ("")
Resign: "" ("")
Thanks: "" ("")

Baronh

Asking: "" ("")
Accept: "" ("")
Decline: "" ("")
Begin: "" ("")
Resign: "" ("")
Thanks: "" ("")


Notes


This is a copy of the living page "Useful Phrases In Useless Languages" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2005 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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