I updated the wiki page on Fuzzby. (
http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Fuzzby )
Would a feature request to have Fuzzy-made messages be configurably-automatically translated back into English be too much? (And would it be better in a new thread?)
The k-mail that fuzzby sends has the comment <!-- FUZZBISH( --> followed by the message body, followed by <!-- ) --> all inside of the message's <blockquote> tags.
Without a fuzzby, this would be nice for some people. With a fuzzby, the phrase is actually inside of the k-mail contained inside of hidden blockquotes, toggled by javascript.
Without a fuzzby, the phrase is not contained in the kmail, but the information i've outlined on the wiki page under the "More fun with Fuzzby" section is sufficient to translate from Fuzzby back to English perfectly, using only the one-letter and two-to-three letter maps, but in reverse.
One-letter map:
http://ben.bloomroad.com/kol/fuzzby/fuzzby_1_map.txt
Two-to-three letter map:
http://ben.bloomroad.com/kol/fuzzby/fuzzby_2_map.txt
From English to Fuzzby is also possible, but would require mafia using a rather large data file to map from the input to the output. You also can't tell the fuzzby to translate backwards from inputs not generated in-game.
You could use the information in that section to translate from English directly into Fuzzby (instead of using the substitutions that it does for special words), and then translating back from fuzzby to english would give a word-for-word translation. However, you wouldn't be able to mark the kmail as "fuzzbish" so a fuzzby wouldn't automatically pick it up to translate it back.