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19 May 2009, 11:18 am

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19 of 24 Knowledge!

You scored 19 Knowledge.You know quite a bit of languages Great Job! I hope you had fun, that is all that really matters. The best result you got is a little bit of exposure to some of the many languages of the world. If you liked this send me feedback and maybe I will make another one. If you vote that is appreciated also.

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19 May 2009, 11:58 am

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20 of 24 Knowledge!

I couldn't actually see any of the writing on the page with the Japanese, Chinese etc. language, I just saw a load of numbered boxes, which wasn't very helpful.

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19 May 2009, 3:51 pm

23, I too got stuck on Dwarvish, Elvish and Goa'Uld.

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19 May 2009, 10:22 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

CelticRose wrote:

I got 22 out of 24. I wish they would show you which questions you got right and which you got wrong. I was guessing on a lot of those.

Ditto.
20 of 24.
Can anyone tell me which were which of Elvish, Dwarfish, Goauld and Klingon?

click for spoilers
elvish
dwarvish
goa'uld (there's a glottal plosive in there, get it right

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klingon

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20 May 2009, 1:33 pm

20 out of 24.

I think i got japanse/chinese and latvian/estonian the wrong way around.

Is there any obvious differences that i can look out for to differentiate?

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21 May 2009, 11:22 pm

Michjo wrote:

20 out of 24.

I think i got japanse/chinese and latvian/estonian the wrong way around.

Is there any obvious differences that i can look out for to differentiate?

Well, Japanese and Chinese aren't too difficult to distinguish. Highlight the text to see the spoiler.

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Chinese consists of complicated characters with more or less rectilinear strokes. Japanese has those, but also adds a bevy of fairly simple curvilinear characters. I've highlighted the latter in the website's inscription in Japanese.
私は武士です。忍者私には何も持っている。

Can't help ya with latvian and estonian.

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22 May 2009, 4:25 am

Michjo wrote:

20 out of 24.

I think i got japanse/chinese and latvian/estonian the wrong way around.

Is there any obvious differences that i can look out for to differentiate?

I got 22 of 24 and it must have been one of those two pairings that I mixed up. I don't have a clue which, those were both more or less blind guesses.

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29 May 2009, 6:38 pm

Is there supposed to be a link?

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29 May 2009, 10:08 pm

my computer doesn't display asian symbols, i can't take it :cry:

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06 Jul 2009, 9:52 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

Can anyone tell me which were which of Elvish, Dwarfish, Goauld and Klingon?

I'm pretty sure that the first thing on that page was Elvish and that the second question with the runes was dwarfish. I think you could find examples of them online. I'd look myself, but my laptop is being super slow.

I got 16 out of 24.

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07 Jul 2009, 1:18 am

19 of 24 Knowledge!

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14 Jul 2009, 1:16 am

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17 of 24 Knowledge!

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You scored 17 Knowledge.You know quite a bit of languages Great Job! I hope you had fun, that is all that really matters. The best result you got is a little bit of exposure to some of the many languages of the world. If you liked this send me feedback and maybe I will make another one. If you vote that is appreciated also.

I do well on any test in which the Tengwar is featured. *nerdy smirk*

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17 Jul 2009, 7:50 am

20/24
the sf ones got me

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19 Jul 2009, 5:23 pm

You scored 22 Knowledge. You did Awesome! I hope you had fun, that is all that really matters. The best result you got is a little bit of exposure to some of the many languages of the world. If you liked this send me feedback and maybe I will make another one. If you vote that is appreciated also.

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14 Aug 2009, 8:18 pm

22 of 24. I'm obsessed with languages but i thought i'd do better.

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14 Aug 2009, 10:39 pm

24/24. Wasn't too sure on Chinese/Japanese and Estonian/Latvian. I studied French and German at school but English is the only language I speak fluently.

To make it really hard, they could
-Put several Scandinavian languages in the same question
-Put several languages using the same non-Western alphabet in the same question

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