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amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
In reply to my tweet & my follow-up email re Newsletter #2 Liam wrote:
I am sorry for this confusion, but we are having technical problems with the server atm. We are working on a replacement. We don't know who or what is causing the disturbances , but until we have figured it out - no one from the Lunar Labs team is allowed to use the official lunarlabs communication channels.
ETA: Just got a Shavian email 𐑛𐑩𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑯 𐑣𐑭𐑕𐑑𐑩𐑤 My phonetic trans attempt gives a name, dustin hastul. Will check here tomorrow for what's correct.
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:05 pm
cherrytree98765
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
Someone else will have to help with the translation. For the life of me, I can't get Shavian to render on my computer. Though that is not an email I actually got myself, so hopefully some other people can render the shavian and see if your translation is right.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:24 am
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
I also got a shavian mail from Lunar Labs, 𐑚𐑮𐑭𐑢𐑟. Unfortunately, this didn't really mean much... The closest phonetic translation I can get is "browse" (as the letters are bib, roar, ah, woe, zoo). What are we supposed to browse? I couldn't find anything new on the website.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:45 am
cherrytree98765
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Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
Thunderwolf wrote:
I also got a shavian mail from Lunar Labs, 𐑚𐑮𐑭𐑢𐑟. Unfortunately, this didn't really mean much... The closest phonetic translation I can get is "browse" (as the letters are bib, roar, ah, woe, zoo). What are we supposed to browse? I couldn't find anything new on the website.
What time did you recieve the email?
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:30 am
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
23:41 BST.
Also if you're still having trouble with the shavian fonts, try this:
If you're using Firefox, go to options > content and click the button for Advanced Font options. On the next screen, change the "Fonts for:" drop down to "Other languages" and set the serif and sans serif font options to Andagii. Firefox should render them all nicely then.
If you're using Chrome, I believe you have to install the advanced font options extension (I don't like Google so I don't use Chrome), but I believe it has a similar option (ie set the language to "other" and the font to Andagii.
IF all that fails, you could try using BabelMap , which incidentally works well as a phonetic crib sheet too.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:38 am
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
Thanks for the tips thunderwolf will help a lot. I also didn't receive the email so guess maybe it was only sent to those that have tried reaching out to future Maria so far. ?
I was wondering whether it was pointing us o a new website (to avoid any future WordPress issues) but nada so far.[url][/url]
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:28 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
My Shavian email was from newsletterSPLAT lunarlabs.org & someone in Newsletter #2 wrote:
Welcome to the year 2044.... People cant differentiate between real and fiction anymore...Though a handful of people managed to escape and are now on the run
Morning Russell_k. I've never tried to contact either present or future Maria. Tho not yet *happy dance* with the trans 'dustin hastul' it anagrams to Hunt Dualists .
Maybe that's a 2044 euphemism for those who can still differentiate? I'll continue puzzling with the Shavian phonetics in my spare time. Anyone else curious?
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:45 am
Thunderwolf
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
A direct translation of 𐑛𐑩𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑯 𐑣𐑭𐑕𐑑𐑩𐑤 is "dastin hahstal", according to how I pronounce words at least. Obviously shavian will depend on how you normally pronounce the words which the letters are named after, which may affect the "english" spelling and/or meaning. The letters which make up the words are:
dead ado so tot if nun
ha-ha ah so tot ado loll
I wondered if the second word could be "hostel". Not sure how that changes anything.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 7:25 am
The Sparr0w
Boot
Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 16 Location: North Carolina, USA
Hi all -
Just jumping in, but I think I'm all caught up.
A couple of quick, probably unhelpful thoughts on the shavian message:
the shavian character "ado" is really a "schwa", which means if it is in a syllable that syllable is not emphasized.
which means according to IPA it would be pronounced "daSTIN HAHstal"
Which means, like Thunderwolf said, the second word could be "hostel" or "hostile"
Also the german word for "Stand" is "stehen" so could it be a german phrase
"dastehen ___" I don't really know German so just shooting in the dark
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:18 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Hi again. Am certainly not married to 'dustin hastul' though am certain he's a peach. That said...
I made a phonetic translation only after transcribing each phoneme and listening to their individual sounds on the audio files at Wiki IPA Help
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:36 pm
Russell
Unfictologist
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1571 Location: London
Lol Amandel I was convinced I had heard wedding bells on the horizon with you and Dustin!
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:06 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
<3 <3 that. We can all do the *happy dance* at the very posh wedding reception after the nuptuals.
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:11 pm
arthurdent11389
Decorated
Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 184
Lol at above talk ^^.
my current thought:
Since Nick is adopted (and even though the textual file picture showed his "parents" Amy and Jakob with only one child), the Gemini answer to the text adventure game leads me to think that Nick has a TWIN brother/sister, and the twin is evil.
It could be someone with S A D (or SDA, or DAS) as their initials, or in their name (dastan?), or it could even be Liam ?
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:02 pm
cherrytree98765
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849
So a little update for the newsletter and my email.
The "junk" in my email turns out to be base 64 url. The only thing is that it's copied straight from a youtube 500 error page. Besides that, the newsletter actually contains the whole error code in full. I didn't find any differences in the code I had in my email. Maybe we're supposed to find the odd one's out that have extra characters? As far as I know it didn't look like there were any differences from them.
Besides that I haven't found any channels on youtube relating to Maria.
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 8:51 pm
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
Can you post your junk on here Cherry?
Edit: Only after clicking the submit button did I realise how bad that sounds. The base64 I mean.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:30 am
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