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Sunja
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 Message 1 of 10
17 May 2008 at 1:08am | IP Logged 
Hey, try this one! "Der Spiegel" is doing a quiz on the origins of some German words. It's a lot of fun and the quiz doesn't take any time at all.
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Gilgamesh
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 Message 2 of 10
17 May 2008 at 5:30am | IP Logged 
The quiz is not that bad, though they made one mistake: the German word 'Kiosk' doesn't come from Turkish but rather from Persian. Anyway, fun quiz.
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Sunja
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 Message 3 of 10
17 May 2008 at 5:47am | IP Logged 
Gilgamesh wrote:
The quiz is not that bad, though they made one mistake: the German word 'Kiosk' doesn't come from Turkish but rather from Persian. Anyway, fun quiz.


Echt? Wow. Were there any that surprised you? I kept getting the snide remarks, "close, but no banana, noch'n Versuch".

This is just a side comment, but I think the origins of words in languages would be a course in an of itself (!) I think speakers of many languages can really appreciate the topic. it's amazing what you can learn about your own language.
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Sunja
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17 May 2008 at 7:08am | IP Logged 
Pauline wrote:
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Sie haben 10 von 10 Punkten.

Geben Sie es zu - Sie haben das etymologische Wörterbuch geschrieben, aus dem wir die ganze Zeit zitiert haben. Falls nicht, haben Sie wirklich eine Menge Ahnung oder für diesen Test drei Stunden gebraucht, weil sie jede Antwort erstmal bei Wikipedia nachrecherchiert haben. Achso: Dass Sie das mit der Tomate und den Azteken wirklich wussten, glaubt Ihnen übrigens kein Mensch.
NOCHMAL SPIELEN?


Stimmt gar nicht; ein Par Fragen hatte ich falsch beantwortet, und nur das zweite oder dritte Mal richtig getan. Wenn alle Prüfungen so gemacht würden, wäre ich froh sein LOL!! Du machst Fehler aber trotzdem 20/20.

sunja, i didn't like the replies as well, but I found them annoying and too much smalltalk. Etymology is a nice subject.




I'm sure I did worse than you did and I still got 9 out of 10 :D The ones I got right I guessed on and the ones I thought I knew I got wrong. I guess that's why I find the quiz interesting. Europeans more attuned to different languages than I.
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 Message 7 of 10
17 May 2008 at 8:16am | IP Logged 
Sunja wrote:
Pauline wrote:
Quote:
Sie haben 10 von 10 Punkten.

Geben Sie es zu - Sie haben das etymologische Wörterbuch geschrieben, aus dem wir die ganze Zeit zitiert haben. Falls nicht, haben Sie wirklich eine Menge Ahnung oder für diesen Test drei Stunden gebraucht, weil sie jede Antwort erstmal bei Wikipedia nachrecherchiert haben. Achso: Dass Sie das mit der Tomate und den Azteken wirklich wussten, glaubt Ihnen übrigens kein Mensch.
NOCHMAL SPIELEN?


Stimmt gar nicht; ein Par Fragen hatte ich falsch beantwortet, und nur das zweite oder dritte Mal richtig getan. Wenn alle Prüfungen so gemacht würden, wäre ich froh sein LOL!! Du machst Fehler aber trotzdem 20/20.

sunja, i didn't like the replies as well, but I found them annoying and too much smalltalk. Etymology is a nice subject.




I'm sure I did worse than you did and I still got 9 out of 10 :D The ones I got right I guessed on and the ones I thought I knew I got wrong. I guess that's why I find the quiz interesting. Europeans more attuned to different languages than I.


I'm sure they did it that way because they didn't want people to feel stupid after taking the quiz and getting 2 or 3 out of 10 correct. They might not come back and read Spiegel On-Line again.

Etymology is an interesting subject. I know a lot about the etymology of English words but apparently, not much about German etymology. I really only knew two of the answers, guessing aside.
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Maikl
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 Message 8 of 10
18 May 2008 at 6:34am | IP Logged 
Nice quiz!
Other everyday words that come to my mind are:

shampoo, bungalow
ketchup, amok
taboo
yogurt


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