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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6540 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 65 of 89 17 January 2013 at 3:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Once again, I'm not suggesting that we should VOTE based on any data apart from the logs. But I don't see why it shouldn't be a way to "be in". Not everyone cares about having the best log. The way I see it, using a bot is just wasting your chance to have a cool unique log and a meaningful contribution to the team. But it's entirely possible to miss out on that despite keeping a log.
idk, does anyone else consider the logs a social thing? if i could be bothered to keep track, i'd start posting lists of the matches i watch just to piss everyone off :P lol i just remembered that i did post to my log. but i didn't do a summary and right now i have no motivation to do it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7099 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 66 of 89 17 January 2013 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
Seriously, no. How many HTLALers genuinely find entries showing conjugation in Inari Saami or comparing false friends between Polish and Slovak interesting or relevant to their own backgrounds or studies? One thing that I will say is that this talk about voting for a winner of TAC is more popularity contest than anything else. Whom are we really fooling? There, I said it, and as a forum fossil, I have no regrets. Voting for the winner is heavily subjective and an exercise in killing time (I'm near the end of my 15-minute break from tonight's Polish session). And just because I feel like it now, I'll vote for my log and my team. Hajrá *jäŋe / *ledús! and Éljen Chung!  
Does it really matter? C'mon folks, let's get back to studying. Right. Now back to "Polish in 4 Weeks - II, Unit 11". Na razie. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5073 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 67 of 89 17 January 2013 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
On the other hand, if I were studying any of those languages I'd probably find them at least informative, if not "interesting". Makes for a good reason to have people studying similar languages on the same team. It's pretty rare that I don't learn something new in the logs I follow, but I only follow logs which highlight languages I have some interest in. I think Serpent is looking at a log as solely a chore (for herself - and, fair enough), when in reality they serve as more than just simple documentation. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6540 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 68 of 89 17 January 2013 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's more than that as long as I have the right to post as much or little as I want without being kicked out of the challenge.
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| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4811 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 69 of 89 17 January 2013 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm voting for Team Sputnik, because they inspired me to see TAC as more than reading other people's logs.
If this is a category this year I'd also like to vote for Brun Ugle as a participant who has inspired me with the amount of reading she did this year in such a challenging language as Japanese. I have no opinion on other categories. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6183 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 70 of 89 17 January 2013 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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My vote goes to The Romantics.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5867 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 71 of 89 18 January 2013 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
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My vote for individual log goes to Fasulye for her Danish log. My vote for a TAC team was harder to decide, but I vote for Team *jäŋe / *ledús just because I've seen nothing that forbids me from voting for my own team.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5899 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 72 of 89 18 January 2013 at 3:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I am torn on the voting issue. I see the value of recognition by peers, bragging
rights and all that, but the "A" part of "TAC" is not annihilation of other forums members but a collective effort to annihilate your subject language. "winning" is more properly measured against the target language than against each other. If we were given scissors to cut our voting ballot into as many separate fractional votes as we may consider appropriate, I would cast a vote for every team that managed to struggle to the end of the year with any measure of success on the part of surviving members (I was not one) in having conjugated the heck out of your victim language or whatever. I don't just mean like we all used to get ribbons in elementary school for everyone who competed on the theory that we were all winners (I still have my collection of ribbons from the 96 metre dash races in grade 3 - even back then, I just never managed to make it to the end!), but there has to be a remaining core of annihilators still standing with some legitimate claim of progress. there are a number of those, who should be lauded equally in my view. EDIT: sentence deleted. Edited by Spanky on 18 January 2013 at 4:00pm 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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