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Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn.

Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

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Æss a nårvidsjæn itt vassent tu hard tu riid jur vraiting laik dis. Aj vånder håo diffikult itt iss får a slav tu ønderstænd nårvinglisj....

Edit: and now I feel like Petter Solberg. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/Kaeh8FRPANs?t=4s

Pole here. Trivial. Then again, I studied in Denmark, so I know how to read those fancy letters.

Russian here. Was easy to read. Took a few seconds to figure out the sounds for the letters I didn't knew, and, of course, it looks odd so just glancing over the phrase doesn't work - but no issues otherwise. Don't know any Nordic languages.

룼키 야짘 나 한굴 볼체 틀룯나 폰얕.

English here. Easy enough to understand too...

Translation: As a Norwegian, it wasn't too hard to read your writing like this. I wonder how difficult it is for a Slav to understand Norwenglish...

African here. Was readable in second pass. Pretty cool trick though.

Ez e törk ay ken sey dat dis fred iz may feyvrıt on eyçen soğ fağ. Ay uandır if a fing layk dı OP'yz iz possibıl uif avır languicis dat hev regular and fonıtik spelling rûls?

Ju kud mejk jt horrorshow jf ju fjlly wjs vocabulary ala Anthony Burgess' Nadsad.

On a related note:

For my Russian friends it was obvious that Chewbacca is Chelovek (man) + Sabaka (dog) while I would have never made that connection.

"The writing of Hungarian is largely phonetic" So this program wouldn't work for hungarian. Oh well. Your comment would look like this pronounced by me on an elementary level: Jú kud ték a lengvidzs from ö diffrönt lengvidzs femili tu örrájv et számszing szimilár. For fördör ábföszkésön jú kud júz diffrönt trenszlésön.

Akszualli dis is en obsfuskejszon juzing an akszual slawik lenguydz (uidaut juzing speszal slawik karakters but that // łud potenszalli bi iwen more obfuskejted). Ol klir?

All clear, yes except for 'uidaut' and 'łud' -- is the latter "would"?

uidaut = without

łud = would

Lávly konszept. Ju kud ívön tráj úzing en ívön mór disztant lengvidzs, Hángérien det iz. Áj wándör háu mács of disz iz komprihenziböl tu ádörz :D

I find the comparison with Slavic languages quite funny :) Just keep in mind, simple transliteration is easily reversible. Spellfucker - not.

It's not a straight transliteration -- it's not like we are writing IPA phonetic marks by-the-by in two different languages. For example your "th" in "thing" doesn't exist in Hungarian so I will use "sz" which by the way is one of the common pronunciation mistakes we make: replacing /θ/ with /s/. There are sounds in Hungarian which do not exist in English and yet if I wanted to "encode" the word "duke" I would likely use "gyúk" thus replacing /djuːk/ with /ɟu:k/.

Your digraphs and trigraphs make my head hurt...

Translation: Lovely concept. You could even try using an even more distant language, Hungarian that is. I wonder how much of this is comprehensible to others.

Nicely done! So it works. I badly want to see the software, however, which can do the same translation.

I find it amusing how big the differences are between the Slavic languages. So, krige is obviously Polish (not even trying to hide it with the ł, but also using "sz" for "sh"). My guess would be xixixao is Czech or Slovak. Correct?

Czech, correct. I didn't use our letters for the sounds easily replecated in english, so sh and ch would be š and č in Czech.

As soon as I start to read it with a Slavic accent (after reading the last line) it clicked

I could also read it OK, with concentration (not Slavic). Ai theenke thet eefe ay red laikh theiss four ey uayl eye wood gette phassterh kueekh-Lee.

Edit: όλσο, ουάν κούντ υιούζ σούπερ γουίερντ Γκρήκ κάρακτερς. (also, one could use super weird Greek characters)

Brazilian here with a somewhat good english proficiency. Could understand almost everything. Thanks for that experiment :)

edit- also a little german knowledge by i don't know how much that helped.

I could read it fairly well, and I'm Swedish. Now I feel Slavik.

Funny, am Swede and thought this was written by a Scandinavian!

Aj dident nou der vr sou meni Slavik pipol araunt dis plejs. Veri hepi tu si felou Slavs komentink on Hekr Njuz

indonesian/malaysian language is also phonetic with almost same pronunciation as slavic langiages, maybe except letter C and J, they literally write in Malaysia "bas" (bus), "kaunter" (counter), kolej (college), etc.

Russian here. Didn't have any trouble. Why woulf non-slavic people findbit harder?

my fave -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SII-jhEd-a0

Only a couple of words caught me out. Not Slavik. ^^

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