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[Caterpillar]

I have had some luck translating words into a few differing languages, but nothing seems to happen as a whole. I've been working on this for days posting in Hindi, Hungarian and Indonesian language forums, with not a lot of luck.

Hindi/Sanskrit/Malay/Indonesian/Hungarian

It's hard to take a word from the audio file and translate w/o the proper spelling, but we have the spellings of some of the words in the sound file, from text used on the site and in the SC.

For instance the word hasya is spoken in the audio file and could mean laughable/comical in Hindi.

Di is also heard in the sound file, it can mean "in" (in Indonesian if I recall).

Gai is there too(panan di gai)...and we know how that's spelled as well. No meaning yet.

Most of the word definitons are just best guesses on spelling based on the audio file (i.e. The line that sounds like "Hasha Paynin Keelin Neem Oo Koon")

...these "guessed spellings" are Hindi

Hasya - happiness/laughable/comic

Panan - the act of selling

Nim/Neem - the name of a tree with medicinal properties. Concoctions made from it are usually bitter in taste. So, sometimes it is used to mean bitter.

Kuun - blood

I dunno.....panin (can't remember how I spelled it) also means "harvest" - I think I found that in Sanskrit.

...still looking.

[Bobucko]

NNRA

[Caterpillar]

That's exactly where I started when I posted:

"I'm thinking this might have something to do with the Peshitta and possibly Aramaic?"

I even wrote in to "Ask a Rabbi"...lol
(no response yet)

nnra actually looks like some sort of cite reference or code?

[LatentMoths]

[molecularr]

Good one!

Hm, so I wonder if everyone else who emailed will get the same number? Anyone else gotten a reply yet?

[jsquared]

[jsquared]

[jsquared]

Tunin from ATS has apparently gotten a few responses...here is the dialogue...

[Caterpillar]

I think jsquared is onto something....

The number of chars in the words left blank match up to the number of letters in jal hasya adjnak / nukvad.

Interesting that to=ra huh? (means nothing but it's cute).

[molecularr]

[Bobucko]

Thinking along the concept of a code again, rather than a hodgepodge of languages:

maybe the phrase "to preserve humanity" is not meant to be a literal translation of RA NNRA KOLDDAAJ but a suggestion of what it translates to?

RA=to is fine, but
NNRA=preserve and KOLDAAJ=humanity do not fit so far as the number of characters. Maybe the key to this is to find words that do fit?

I propose :

RA=to
NNRA=save
KOLDAAJ=mankind

THis fits the spirit of the clue as well as the character counts. I do not know what kind of character mapping could give this as a translation though... perhaps a character can represent multiple characters based on some kind of modifier or adjacent characters or position in the string?

Note: RANNRAKOLDAAJ/tosavemankind = 13 characters

[Randy]

I've set up a channel for anyone interested in discussing.

irc.chat-solutions.org #theend

[stilettoblade]

i'm at work and it takes me forever to do em even with a known key, but maybe a viginere cypher?

[molecularr]

Something else, the phrase we're working on again:
ra nnra koldaaj, jal hasya adjnak ny nukvad

uses only 13 different letters:
rankoldjhsyuv

The greek text in the two swf's /images/yskLa.swf and /images/yshkLanti.swf also only use 13 different characters, if I'm not mistaken. So that might not be lorem ipsum after all; then again ra nnra ... might be.

[Bryant]

Sorry guys, pretty long post. I've gotten it about as shortened up as I think I can.

Okay. I got some info from...I guess I'll call him 'yshk.'

I got a bit of an email relay going with him and got a few details.

(I know you're reading this, yshk. I know you know who I said I was. I felt anonymity was a good thing to have in my possession, however, and thus I lied.)

So...here's the gist of it.