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[RING][Trailhead] Find the Lost Ring
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HitsHerMark
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ouroboros wrote:
Some of the Lost Ones have expressed an interest in communicating primarily in their native language. Some have only rudimentary ability with English. (Not to point fingers, but that email from Noriko contains a fantastic number of contradictions to what we think we know. Get the comfy chair!)

On the wiki, I've set up a page for us to list language resources we have in the playerbase. Yeah, yeah, I know, babelfish is awesome and google-translator is da bomb yo, but I suspect that we may lose some meaning if we rely on machine translation. If all of the Lost Ones start blogging on the findthelostring site, part of our puzzle is mediating that Tower of Babel.

If you're fluent in a language that we've seen so far, and willing to be a contact for translation, can you sign up on the Language Resources page?


This is an absolutely brilliant idea! I've also signed up for the free online Esperanto lessons that Shad0 linked above. ((Hi Shad0!))

I used to speak German reasonably well as I mentioned before, and it pains me to hear/read words I know I've heard, read and spoken before but have no idea what it means. The only word I can really remember right now is "Orangensaft". Which is no good for haiku, that's 4 beats right there. It would have to go in the middle line.

Can anybody suggest a self-study course that's good I can brush up with?
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Here's a list of some online German courses, which might be useful as basic refreshers. Like others around here, I used to be able to speak a bit of German (to GCSE standard anyway). Now I can just about read and understand a bit, but stringing sentences together, either written or spoken, is well beyond me. Same goes for my French - I can ask for something to eat, and a drink, but more than that and I'm stumped!
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Sylvia
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I'm afraid I don't have much to contribute and it seems to take me forever to get caught up on the reading here. But I noticed a few thing and will list them below.

Diego by lusor wrote:
4) About his recurrent dreams:
"A few times I had a dream about figures that are drawn multiple times, and start to create patterns, it's weird and difficult to explain, I know!"


Could Diego have been a figure (ice) skater or hockey player?

Markus by PatRol wrote:
I am about 1.80 meters tall, very athletic, strong and fast.


Maybe Markus is a sprinter, runner, hockey player, or what sport requires stength and speed, figure skater?


The Tai Chi movements, also remind me of figure skating except much slower.

Could they all be figure skaters? Only thing is that doesn't explain the goggles Ariadne had unless it's only purpose was to serve as a blindfold. The others seemed to have something else used as a blindfold. The one girl said hers had many colors another said hers was white, I think. And did one of the guys say his was black? Could the blindfolds other than the goggles be sashes?

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XaRen
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German online course

HitsHerMark wrote:

I used to speak German reasonably well as I mentioned before, and it pains me to hear/read words I know I've heard, read and spoken before but have no idea what it means. The only word I can really remember right now is "Orangensaft". Which is no good for haiku, that's 4 beats right there. It would have to go in the middle line.

Can anybody suggest a self-study course that's good I can brush up with?


Hi HitsHerMark, I tried to learn Welsh a few years ago, but had to give up because of no time. But the language courses at BBC are really good. They have a german course there as well:
BBC Online Course It was very funny for me as a native speaker to look at the lessons. But they are good, so have fun!

XaRen

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Wang Yangming
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blaqueice wrote:
more of Mei's diary. I won't bother with the online translation since Wang Yangming did such a good job with the last one.

Quote:
I am sorry I am late. busy work here!

more diary here~~

我呆呆地站在那儿不知道站了多久。我想到头皮都要发麻了,但是还是想不出来我到底在哪里,倒底怎么会从一个迷宫里醒过来。我实在非常不解。而且最令我难以置信的是,我站在那里好久,但是竟然没有人注意到我。咳…大概我长得不够漂亮吧 … 呜… 我只好擦擦眼泪,抬头挺胸的往前走。^o^ 走到最后终于看到一个长椅子。我坐了下来,绞尽脑汁,还是没办法了解为什么脑子还是一片空白。

当我正在当大思想家的时候,有一个大概十岁的小男孩,后面跟著ㄧ只很大,看起来很凶的狗,跑上前来,问我需不需要帮忙。他可能觉得我一个人坐在那里很可怜。我话还没出口,那只恶犬慢慢地从后面现身。我没有在开玩笑,那只狗如果用两脚站起来,它大概会比我还高。瘦瘦的,黑黑的…

它盯著我看,边看边对我露出很低沈的吠叫。我彷彿听到那个小男孩跟我说"不要怕它,你只要静静的坐著,它一下子就不会叫了。我从椅子上站了起来,慢慢地…慢慢地往后退,之后拔腿就跑!而且我不敢相信的是,那只狗竟然真的追了上来。那个小男孩有想办法要制止那只恶犬,但是还是徒劳无功。

我一直跑,一直跑…想要躲掉那只大狗。我边跑边想说如何才能摆脱它。我不断的改变方向跑,找地方躲,结果真的喔,那知大恶犬没法子,只好慢慢地放弃。我看它一没注意,赶快就开溜了!

我向著出口的方向跑,不断的跑。奇怪的是,我竟然都不会觉得累或是想要停下来休息。而且我觉得越跑精神就越好,好像跑步不但帮助我摆脱了危险,而且还让我有如虎添翼的感觉。我觉得好自在!


busy work here? I'll ask her where she is working.


Sorry no time for a full translation but I can give you a summary.

She recounts that after exiting the maze she sat for awhile to try and figure out what was going on but can't remember anything. Then a small boy with a large dog comes up to talk to her. The dog barks. She gets scared and runs. While running from the dog she discovers that she feels better and better as she runs; she feels she can go as fast as a tiger with wings.

Now that the new website is up I was able to watch her video. These diary entries seem to be a recitation of what she said on the video.

On that note is there someplace for people from China to leave information about this? Unfortunately the wiki is only accessible by way of a proxy so people in China cannot add information to it.

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Forgot to mention: probably not important but Meihui's writing is really nice to read. She is really good at relating a story.

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riquardo
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Ouroboros, not problem at all adding me to the wiki's language resources. I received an email from Larissa but I only asked if she had a photo of Renata, as suggested here in the forum (but already beat to it). Any suggestions of what I could ask her?

Also, yesterday I worked with XaRen in order to deliver Diego's message to Markus in german - Diego thanked me, but nothing much came of that yet.

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EDITed to prevent double post: I emailed Diego asking him about his journal, telling him that could be important to find some clues in what happened to him and voila, in just 30 min (considering if he really is in Argentina that must be really early there) he answered:

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riquardo, aquí te copio las primeras entradas de mi diario, ojalá puedan encontrar algo en ellas! Gracias

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14 de Febrero – ¡Necesito saber quién soy!

Hace dos días que estoy vagando por las calles, miro fijamente a la gente a ver si alguien me reconoce y saluda, pero miran para otro lado. Seré de una ciudad lejana? Tengo este presentimiento que en cualquier momento me encuentro con alguien, que sólo tengo de esperar y todas mis preguntas van a ser respondidas... esperemos...

16 de Febrero – Hola, me dicen Diego

Me desperté en una plaza, como los días anteriores, pero esta vez me despertó un grupo de malabaristas callejeros. Al ver las bolas y clavas moverse por el aire, de repente me acordé de la imagen de un laberinto que tenía en la cabeza desde que me desperté en ese jardín laberintesco, y ahora no puedo sacarmela de la cabeza... cada tanto hago dibujos y garabatos de laberintos en la tierra o con piedras. Una bola cayó cerca de mi pie y uno del grupo me preguntó si sabía malabarear. "No sé", respondí. Se rió como si le hubiera hecho un chiste y me tiró 2 bolas más. Parece que sí sabía malabarear, y me invitaron a practicar con ellos. Al terminar del día cuando se estaban despidiendo me preguntaron por dónde vivía. Otra vez les respondí que no sabía y se rieron mucho cuando les dije que tampoco sabía mi nombre. "Sos de la gente, el Diego de la gente!" me dijo uno, y así me empezaron a llamar.

Hola, me dicen Diego.

22 de Febrero - Diego, malabarista callejero

Haberme unido a los malabaristas fue una buena movida. Me invitaron a vivir con ellos, gano algo de plata con los malabares y lo más importante: estoy todos los días en distintas plazas, a la vista de todos, llamando su atención. Hasta ahora no se me acercó nadie a saludarme, ningún viejo amigo o conocido que pueda iluminar mi existencia... y de seguro que nadie entiende lo que dice este tatuaje, ni saben qué idioma es. ¿Dónde está mi compañero el que está por llegar?


I don't have time to translate now, sorry.

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Just read the posts I've missed, checked the wiki, so I think this hasn't been discovered yet. If so, forgive the trout.

I believe I've found #6. And she's french!!! Yes!!!!

Discovered at: http://qc.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20080304212110AACkDc4

Leads to:
http://icilucie.skyrock.com/

Goes by the name of lucie.

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E-mail from Diego

Ok, Diego answered my email, basically I asked the same things that everybody did, but with some twists, like he should try practicing some sports, specially does like row, yachting, gimnastics or swimming.

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Tomás, gracias por ponerte en contacto y querer ayudarme!
Sí, me contaron del significado de mi tatuaje, lo que me falta saber, es qué significa! Je, suena a chiste, pero a qué anillo se refiere? No sé nada más que debo "encontrar el anillo perdido".

¿Decís que si pruebo algun deporte de esos que mencionás eso podría ayudarme a recuperar la memoria? Bueno, no pierdo nada con intentar! Yo hago ejercicios a diario, pero no probé con esos que mencionás ¿Sabés dónde puedo ir y practicarlos?

Desperté en un laberinto de ligustrinas, en Don Torcuato según me dijeron, no sé exactamente donde, era el laberinto privado de un jardín de una mansión o una casa grande. Básicamente me despertó el dueño de la casa echándome de su jardín, debe haber pensado que era un vagabundo o algo así, luego estuve rondando por Buenos Aires hasta que finalmente me uní a un grupo de malabaristas callejeros (me los encontré en una plazas mientras dormía, y parece ser que sabía hacer malabares!). Te dice algo esto?

De nuevo, gracias por la ayuda!


Ok to make the long story short, he tells me the only thing he knows is that he should find the lost ring, then he asks if he practice any of the sports I talked about he might recover his memory, he tells me he does excercise every day, but he never thought about the ones I mentioned, then he tells me if I could help him finding a place to practice those sports.
Maybe we are in the right track with Diego here.
Saludos and sory for my misspelling mistakes im currently at my office and im running from place to another.

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Nice catch fonograph! We need french understanding people now so we (not french understanding people) can understand that blog!

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fonograph wrote:
I believe I've found #6. And she's french!!! Yes!!!!

Hey fonograph,

excellent found. I think you are indeed the first, who writes about her. So now we have new work to do. I will send Markus a mail (DONE) to let him new, ricardo surely will write to Diego, so can someone tell the girls?

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I wrote Lucie to tell her about the others. Alright, Canadians, it's time to PUT THOSE FRENCH CLASSES TO WORK!

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gtalk chat with Markus, over his lunch told him about Lucie
Quote:
(12:09:14) markus: entschuldigung, ich bin gegangen um mir etwas zu essen zu machen
(12:09:29) markus: another what?
(12:10:12) tim: like you. similar
(12:10:30) markus: NOCH eine Person die Amnesie hat?!

Hope he didn't choke on his sandwich Smile
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