We have a winner! Ender Look, with an 85-letter answer, found the true name of Victory.
Welcome to a new edition of the game!
If this is your first time, there's some info for beginners at the end of this post.
This edition's proposed text is a quote from Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind:
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.
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The goal is to translate the given text to Spanish, using as few letters as possible, while keeping all the original text's meaning and concepts more or less intact.
Here's a (non-golfed) example translation:
Las palabras son pálidas sombras de nombres olvidados. Igual que los nombres tienen poder, las palabras tienen poder. Las palabras pueden encender fuegos en las mentes de los hombres. Las palabras pueden arrancar lágrimas de los más endurecidos corazones. Existen siete palabras que lograrán que una persona te quiera. Existen diez palabras que romperán la determinación de un hombre fuerte. Pero una palabra no es nada más que el dibujo de una hoguera. Un nombre es el fuego mismo.
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- Rules: Translation-golf rules
- Letter counter: jsfiddle
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