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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 313 of 713 29 April 2012 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ok, everyone, just one more day to wait. Before we start I need to know the following:
1) Are there any more questions/doubts as to how to count things? As I said, you can always use your own judgement when in doubt, but if there is anything you would like "a ruling on" you can always ask. 2) Has everyone who wants to participate remembered to register in the other thread? Some of you declared your language and your challenge in this thread, but please remember that it is the special thread for Super challenge registration and update, under the log section which is the correct one. REGISTRATION THREAD 3) Have you also remembered to register on the Super Challenge Twitter bot? This is not compulsary, but I recommend that you do. It is easy and fun to use. However if you know that you will not use it then please let me know now, in this thread. Then I can keep an extra eye on your updates, and include you when I make my periodical comments. Any other comment you would like to make? Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 29 April 2012 at 10:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Snowflake Senior Member United States Joined 5957 days ago 1032 posts - 1233 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 314 of 713 29 April 2012 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I'm interested in the 1/2 challenge....50 movies and 50 books in Mandarin. The movies part should be easier whereas the books will be super hard. Also, I don't have a Tweeter account and am not planning to open one. Edited by Snowflake on 29 April 2012 at 11:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| habgglieb Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4596 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, English Studies: German, Korean | Message 315 of 713 29 April 2012 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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My Twitter account and my username on this forum are different. Can I use the one I've
already got, or should I create another Twitter account with the same name I'm using here? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 316 of 713 29 April 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It doesn't matter. Most people's twitter names and HTLAL names seem to be different. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5416 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 317 of 713 29 April 2012 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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For those looking for cheap novels online, the fantastic AbeBooks has sites in various countries.
US Site UK Site German Site French Site Italian Site Spanish Site It's mainly second hand stuff but you can get some incredible bargains where you are essentially just paying for shipping. You can also find novels in different languages on each site. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 318 of 713 30 April 2012 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ok, Snowflake. I'll keep an eye out for you - and if you decide to get a Twitter account later just let me know. It is easy, and you do not have to write a tweet every time you make a move. I use it almost exclusively to keep tabs on my languages - whether there is a challenge on or not. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 319 of 713 30 April 2012 at 12:35am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thought I'd point out that it's possible to keep a list in your log or use http://justpaste.it :) Or even keep a word document on your computer and post the full list when you finish:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4602 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 320 of 713 30 April 2012 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sure!
Thankyou both so much for the support and the kind offers! @Sprachprofi, I am indeed planning to do a challenge in Esperanto, so I'll PM you. @Cristina, funny you mention that, I'm actually in Sweden at the moment ...
It's interesting you bring these points up - we discussed something similar a little while back in the thread. Reading your comments, I realise I forgot to stick up some sort of Q&A on the website about this. As a stop-gap measure, here's what we talked about before:
The need for titles to do this counting is due to the ambiguity in reading tweets. It's very hard to tell the difference between "today I read 120 pages of a #book" (ie, I read 120 pages of a longer book) and "today I read a #book which was 120 pages" (ie, the book was 120 pages in total, and you read it all), especially if the user is allowed to write in whatever format (and with whatever words) they want. The easiest way around this I can think of is to make it compulsary to specify a title, and then pages can be tracked per-book, and not per-user (therefore allowing us to count 1 book as anything over 100 pages, etc). But as mentioned, the drawback is that people would need to spell it correctly and consistently every time. My worry is that this is (a) frustrating to do each time, and (b) unlikely to work in practice, due to typos, misunderstanding, etc. As things stand at the moment, the best solution for you is to simply specify "#book" each time you read a book, without specifying the page count. This will increment your book count by 1 each time (ie, it will add 250 pages automatically). In addition, I think I'll remove the page-counts from the rankings list (they'll still appear on each participants' page - when I program that) because it doesn't make any sense for the subset of people who update with the #book tag and no page-count. I've thought about this a few times, and haven't yet come up with an elegant solution within the framework we're currently using. If you have any other ideas, I'd love to hear them!
If you're worried about the privacy, I've recently tweaked the Twitter-Bot to work with private accounts too. Private accounts mean that only people you approve can read your tweets. If you only approve the bot, nobody else will be able to read what you post. Otherwise, good luck with the challenge! As a final note (gosh, people actually read this far?!) I'm going to wipe the books/movies/etc back to zero sometime early tomorrow, after which I will likely be away until early on the 2nd. It looks like everything is now working well for the kick-off, so I'm going to hold my thumbs and hope the bugs stay away until I get back :). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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