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maydayayday
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Message 385 of 713

01 May 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged

Teango,
Of one mind my friend!

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Kerrie
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01 May 2012 at 7:39pm | IP Logged

maydayayday wrote:

Kerrie wrote:

Serpent wrote:

Can we have a name for doing several Super/half challenges? :P
Kinda sad how the name super duper was coined by Kerrie when I listed my goals...but I can't even really do what's now called super duper :S

basically it's a blow to my self-confidence that I'm not doing the biggest challenges available XD

I am calling mine the Super Duper Whopper Challenge. =)

Do you want to go large on that?

Haha. That was my effort to super-size Cristina's challenge. Mine is overall for the next three+ years (until I'm 40 in 2015). No more goals beyond what's there.

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Six or seven languages is enough. Once I am happy with my abilities in most of those, I might look at more, but no. going. large. on. that... yet.

Although the onion rings do sound good.
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Message 387 of 713

01 May 2012 at 8:13pm | IP Logged

Now that the challenge is officially underway, does anybody have any books/films in particular that they're
SUPER PSYCHED to get to?

Let's motivate ourselves. :)

I'm really (really!) Looking forward to reading Les Misérables. I love the musical, but I've never read the
translated novel because I wanted to wait to be able to read it in it's original form. I think I'm going to save it
until later in the challenge when my French has improved and I can appreciate it better, but agh, I wanna
read it noooow! *foot stomp*

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tricoteuse
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01 May 2012 at 8:20pm | IP Logged

I realized I have an Old Church Slavonic grammar in Ukrainian, so I'm very excited about reading that one! (Since I have read one entire grammar in Russian and one in French, plus hundreds of pages of OCS grammar from various Ru/No/Eng sources, I figure it won't be that difficult) I'm a bit sad about the first day almost being over and not having done anything for the challenge, but I have a midterm to hand in tomorrow :/
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01 May 2012 at 8:55pm | IP Logged

Teango wrote:

Kerrie wrote:

I am calling mine the Super Duper Whopper Challenge. =)

If the scope continues to grow at this rate, we'll soon no doubt be queuing up for a Super Duper Whopper
Polyglot Challenge with Extra Cheese and a side order of Wanderlust Onion Rings! (lol)

Yep. I see that one coming really soon.
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Kerrie
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01 May 2012 at 9:05pm | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

Teango wrote:

Kerrie wrote:

I am calling mine the Super Duper Whopper Challenge. =)

If the scope continues to grow at this rate, we'll soon no doubt be queuing up for a Super Duper Whopper
Polyglot Challenge with Extra Cheese and a side order of Wanderlust Onion Rings! (lol)

Yep. I see that one coming really soon.

Cristina, you had your Wanderlust Onion Rings last week. Maybe it was Wanderlust Chow Mein, though. :D
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Solfrid Cristin
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Message 391 of 713

01 May 2012 at 9:12pm | IP Logged

Michael K. wrote:

I have a question about children's picture books and bilingual texts.

Would you consider the page count to be half of what it is (100 pages = 50 pages for our purpose)?

How many books would those be considered? I'm thinking about borrowing several picture books from the library and reading them a few times. I don't know how much text is in one of those books, and I don't know if anyone would frown on me for reading picture books and counting 100 pages of that to my total. Most of the books are 30-50 pages long.

With bilingul texts, obviously the page count is half because half of the book is in English.

Would using something like book2 be acceptable? It's about 100 pages, but like I said, it's bilingual so it would count as 50 pages for our purposes.

Sorry to get nitpicky, but I'd like to have answers.

For bilingual texts you simply count pages. More than 100 pages counts as one book. Less is half a book.

For children's books one book counts as 1/5th of a book. If that does not seem right, because there is a lot of text, you simply use your best judgement.

And yes, I know I have two consecutive posts, and that is because even though one of the moderators was kind enough to explain how to do multiple quotes, I still can't make that work.

I am creative - don't ask me to be technical as well :-)
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Michael K.
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Message 392 of 713

01 May 2012 at 9:39pm | IP Logged

OK, thanks. I was going to count children's books as 1/3 a book but 1/5 sounds fair.

I'll still pick up a lot of words in kid's books, I'm sure.

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