A language game
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A language game
In case you all haven't seen it yet, a friend of mine just sent me this link on Facebook: http://greatlanguagegame.com/
I'm afraid I was only able to score a few hundred.
I'm afraid I was only able to score a few hundred.
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Re: A language game
I believe this has rolled through the ZBB before...
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Re: A language game
Oops. That's what I get for not being more thorough in searching the archive. Sorry for the necromancy.
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Don't worry about that. Perhaps some will see it this time who missed it previously.
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Re: A language game
dunno if it got linked on the board as opposed to irc, and the servers were fucking up when it was going around there
i can't get past 750, fucking indistinguishable slavic languages
i can't get past 750, fucking indistinguishable slavic languages
Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
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Re: A language game
NECROPOST MOARmichaelbusch wrote:Oops. That's what I get for not being more thorough in searching the archive. Sorry for the necromancy.
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Re: A language game
It was a thread in ephemera, that's why you couldn't find it
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Ah ha. How did people score?Chibi wrote:It was a thread in ephemera, that's why you couldn't find it
I kept getting confused when I was given a sample of a Polynesian or a Niger-Congo language.
Re: A language game
I've been able to get up to 850 or so, but I think that was mostly dumb luck. Damn you, Hausa.
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Re: A language game
Distinguishing Hindi and Urdu based on a couple quick sentences . . . not cool.
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Re: A language game
The sound quality in a lot of the samples is crap, which adds a fake level of difficulty to this. That aside, why would they list Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian as separate languages? The Slavic languages are already hard enough to tell apart with only 20 seconds of fuzzy audio.
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Re: A language game
Played three games, average 800.
The terrible audio wasn't fun, and some of the tracks repeat if you keep playing. But I love the idea of it.
The terrible audio wasn't fun, and some of the tracks repeat if you keep playing. But I love the idea of it.
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Re: A language game
I got 450 this time, but I've done better. Kinda hard to distinguish some of the languages, but the "accent" of many sound the same across language families, so it can be easy to pick one out when all the languages are distinct families.
[bɹ̠ˤʷɪs.təɫ]
Nōn quālibet inīquā cupiditāte illectus hoc agō
Yo te pongo en tu lugar...
Taisc mach Daró
Nōn quālibet inīquā cupiditāte illectus hoc agō
Yo te pongo en tu lugar...
Taisc mach Daró
Re: A language game
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Re: A language game
Got 600 then 1000. The African languages are what got me. Basque would be difficult except for the characteristic Spanish sounding accent, and the fact they seem to say 'Euskara' in nearly every sentence.
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I got a string of Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Hindi-Urdu, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian-Slovak once. I mean come on, SERIOUSLY???
Re: A language game
I finally got to play to the end without the site crashing. Got 750.