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War Angels Preview/Interview [German]
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:24 pm    Post subject: War Angels Preview/Interview [German]

Austrian online gaming magazine rebell.at has posted up a 2 page interview with Moonpod's very own Nick Tipping. The interview's focus is on War Angels but also touches on Mr. Robot and indie game development in general.

German speakers, can read the full interview here

Hopefully, rebell.at's editor, Bertold Schauer might get the chance to translate it to English at some point, but until then, there's always the comedy google transation. :)
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In which language did you do the interview then? Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is Nod Tipping your brother?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reading it through the translator gave me pain..


Pain I tell you!

But at least you could understand it
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

simonb wrote:
Is Nod Tipping your brother?

Yeah! I thought that was weird - I mean, even if you took 'nick' as a noun, how do you get Nod? ! Babelfish did an even worse job and called me 'Nod yourself Tipping' Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fost wrote:
Yeah! I thought that was weird - I mean, even if you took 'nick' as a noun, how do you get Nod?

Now, that's easy. :-)

The german verb "nicken" means "to nod".

Conjugations:
Ich nicke
Du nickst
Er/Sie/Es nickt
Wir nicken
Ihr nickt
Sie nicken

The imperative is: "nick" (Example: "Nick mal!" or simple "Nick!")
That would simply translate to "Nod!".

So "Nick Tipping" becomes "Nod Tipping". Also "Tipping" seems do be a valid word. Don't know why that's not translated...
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But it's not a German word, is it? Tipping, that is. It's a valid English word with a German counterpart, yes, but that wouldn't be translated to anything else in the transition to English.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

..and, oddly enough, my surname is supposed to be of French origin. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Magnulus wrote:
But it's not a German word, is it? Tipping, that is. It's a valid English word with a German counterpart, yes, but that wouldn't be translated to anything else in the transition to English.

Oh, yeah, oops. Mixed that up a little bit. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fost wrote:
..and, oddly enough, my surname is supposed to be of French origin. Smile

What does it mean?

(I always have to think of the jar in the bar at the beginning of the first X-Men movie which has a note attached to it: "Tipping is not a city in China" Very Happy )


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see there is urgent need of a translated version. I'll try to get an english version online by the end of february. These translators do a very painful job it seems. On the other hand I couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes - thanks to Nod Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slyh wrote:
What does it mean?

I think it was a trade, like 'carpenter' or 'smith'. They used to make arrow heads - literally 'tipping' the arrows.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

apparently my ancestors wer sheppards <sic>
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