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  • BartHumphries's Avatar
    BartHumphries
    Junior Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 525

    Getting an Interpreter Strip in a "new" language

    #1
    03-07-2011, 01:30 AM
    I thought there were only French, Spanish, Italian, and Sign Language strips available, but apparently there are a number of other languages. The exhaustive list seems to be Hebrew, Mandarin (simplified and traditional), French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Greek.

    What sort of process would I have to go through to get a new language strip created, like Norwegian? Can you just special order it or is there some long process that I'd have to step through?
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  • Eagle707's Avatar
    Eagle707
    Junior Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 122
    #2
    03-07-2011, 01:42 AM
    You should be able to special order it through National Supply (or so I've been told). If not, you could create the strip yourself (with the approval of your CSE and National).

    Mike Walton's site has a good summary:
    http://www.scoutinsignia.com/preter.htm

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    • SeattlePioneer's Avatar
      SeattlePioneer
      Senior Member
      • May 2005
      • 3603
      #3
      03-07-2011, 12:53 PM
      No Klingon or Elvish?

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      • OldGreyEagle's Avatar
        OldGreyEagle
        Super Moderator
        • Apr 2013
        • 0
        #4
        03-07-2011, 02:44 PM
        I got your Klingon right here

        http://www.boyscoutstore.com/spoof-custom-patches/spoof-interpreter-strips/

        amoung others

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        • Eagle92's Avatar
          Eagle92
          Junior Member
          • Aug 2008
          • 7243
          #5
          03-07-2011, 02:46 PM
          I've seen a spoof patch for Klingon on a scouter. Crazy scouter wanted to use Klingon as his foreign language requirement for school.

          It didn't happen.

          Haven't seen Elvish yet.

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          • SeattlePioneer's Avatar
            SeattlePioneer
            Senior Member
            • May 2005
            • 3603
            #6
            03-07-2011, 03:21 PM
            Hello Old Grey Eagle,


            I liked your list of interpreter patches.


            I think my favorite was "English."

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            • Eagle92's Avatar
              Eagle92
              Junior Member
              • Aug 2008
              • 7243
              #7
              03-07-2011, 08:32 PM
              I have actually seen those on Puerto Rican Scouts. National does make them.

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              • oldisnewagain1's Avatar
                oldisnewagain1
                Senior Member
                • Apr 2009
                • 146
                #8
                03-08-2011, 07:33 AM
                How about "Binary"

                Of course there would only be 10 kinds of people

                Those who understood and those who didn't(This message has been edited by oldisnewagain1)

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                • evry's Avatar
                  evry
                  Junior Member
                  • May 2009
                  • 36
                  #9
                  03-08-2011, 11:59 AM
                  There are others that the Scout Shops carry. I had a kid from South Africa that spoke Afrikaans, and the Scout Shop had it available. It is a little more exprensive than Francais or Espanol since there are fewer made.

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                  • BartHumphries's Avatar
                    BartHumphries
                    Junior Member
                    • Sep 2010
                    • 525
                    #10
                    03-08-2011, 08:04 PM
                    Those spoof language patches are amazing. If I'm going to be working at a Camp this summer, then I'm going to get a couple to wear on Saturdays or something.

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                    • Woapalanne's Avatar
                      Woapalanne
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2010
                      • 213
                      #11
                      03-11-2011, 10:43 AM
                      Hmmm. Since the strips are for a second language, and I'm a deep South native, I think the "Yankee" would be helpful for those around me. I have family in Noo Yawk and Mitchi-gan, so I speak a reasonable amount of those languages.

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                      • Eagle92's Avatar
                        Eagle92
                        Junior Member
                        • Aug 2008
                        • 7243
                        #12
                        03-11-2011, 12:04 PM
                        I got your Klingon right here

                        http://www.boyscoutstore.com/spoof-custom-patches/spoof-interpreter-strips/

                        amoung others


                        Unfortunately this wasn't the one I saw. The one I saw had actual Klingon charcters.

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                        • Scouter.'s Avatar
                          Scouter.
                          Member
                          • Mar 2012
                          • 82
                          #13
                          03-30-2012, 08:53 PM
                          ...I actually got a package in the mail today...which I had forgotten about. Earlier this month, I sent an email to ScoutStuff inquiring as to a certain interpreter strip.

                          They said they would look into in.

                          A couple days later, they called, asked what language, and how many I needed. With that they asked for my CC info and said 2 - 4 weeks.

                          So today,,,I got the package with 4 brand new interpreter strips....custom made by BSA.

                          $7 each...but I got them and pretty certain no one else has this language.

                          Collecting? ....Nope...speaking it and corr responding in it as well.

                          Danki!

                          (I'm thinking I may have the only 4 BSA interpreter strips of this language. Cool :-))
                          (This message has been edited by Scouter.)

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                          • Reasonable Rascal's Avatar
                            Reasonable Rascal
                            Member
                            • Jul 2011
                            • 50
                            #14
                            03-31-2012, 01:30 AM
                            I am in the process of getting one for Armenian for a new Scout. To get one in the language itself have someone familiar with it write it out. Thus I had the dad write out Armenian in the Cyrillic alphabet. This is sent in to national with the order and they send the strips custom-made.

                            The strips as mentioned run about $7 and come as a minimum of 2 per order. They are ordered through the local Scout Shop. There is actually an inventory number on the national database that covers custom-ordered Interpreter strips.

                            RR

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                            • Papadaddy's Avatar
                              Papadaddy
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2011
                              • 551
                              #15
                              03-31-2012, 07:43 AM
                              Hey OGE...got any in the Minsi Trails scout shop for "Deitsch"? As a scout, I wore, "Deutsch", as I became nearly fluent in high school German (5 years).

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