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    He just wants to do it in that style - I wish I could read German now because I'm itching to know what the words say. The style is possible but you need to draw it all out by hand (which will take some time) so you better get started. Instead of using the little buildings to represent the whole town make each building represent one building - you are going to need a lot more of varying shape. I understand your desire to represent other buildings, my little black squares are just to represent placement, not the final drawing. Draw about 10 different houses and then draw the important buildings that you want and then place them down and make copies of them and place them down - and so on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascension View Post
    He just wants to do it in that style - I wish I could read German now because I'm itching to know what the words say.
    Since I have to practice for my upcoming translation exam, you're lucky. This is what it reads:

    Über Debil Ortschaft - Over Moronic Village
    Idioten Herzlich Willkommen - Idiots Most Welcome
    Plunderberg - Junk Mountain
    Frühkohlberg - Early Cabbage Mountain
    Wasserkopfstaadt - Hydrocephalus City
    Dummstaadt - Stupid City
    Schnarchengaard - Snore Garden
    Trottelgard - Dumbass Garden
    Kartoffel Siedlung - Potatoe Settlement

    and the two rivers:

    Alberne Witze - Foolish Jokes
    Ich bin ein Butterfertiger - no real sentence, the word butterfertiger doesn't exist

    Maybe now you understand why looking at the map made me very puzzled.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aelyn View Post
    Ich bin ein Butterfertiger - no real sentence, the word butterfertiger doesn't exist
    Actually, Google shows that Butterfertiger is a perfectly good word. Some sort of dairy processing machine, although I'm doubtful that Google's translation of it as a "butter paver" is idiomatically correct. It seems to be an industrial butter churn.

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