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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5971 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 13 22 June 2010 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
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I found this etymology game a few days ago. You'll like it if you enjoy language trivia. You get 10 word origin questions to answer and the facts come from all kinds of languages. Can anyone get 10/10 correct? (I didn't!)
Etymologic: The Toughest Etymology Game on the Web My scores: 1st try: 3/10 Miserable 2nd try: 4/10 You Gotta Go Study 3rd try: 5/10 Good 4th try: 9/10 Good 5th try: 8/10 Good I got better at guessing! (You can eliminate some of the sillier choices and that gives a better result) And I learned a few interesting things, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5655 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 13 22 June 2010 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
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1st and only try so far: 7/10
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6707 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 13 22 June 2010 at 2:49pm | IP Logged |
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Also 7 points here
EDIT: .. twice Edited by Iversen on 22 June 2010 at 11:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5813 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 4 of 13 22 June 2010 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
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4/10 You Gotta Go Study
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7019 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 13 22 June 2010 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
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Oh dear! 5/10 and subsequently 4/10. Off to hit the books hard.
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| prosaic Diglot Groupie China Joined 5805 days ago 44 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, French Studies: German, Russian, Esperanto, Latin | Message 6 of 13 25 June 2010 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
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I've also got 7 correct.Some questions are not hard, while regarding others I have no clues.
The second time I got 5 right. One of them I happened to look up in the dictionary just the day before yesterday: triakaidekaphobia, fear of the number thirteen, though I could also have guessed right, as it's clearly made up all of Greek words: 13-fear. I don't think "thirteen" needs to be in Greek. :) Edited by prosaic on 25 June 2010 at 4:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ladanoise Groupie United States Joined 5297 days ago 45 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Danish | Message 7 of 13 25 June 2010 at 4:47pm | IP Logged |
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6 out of 10 - at first it seemed easy, then, not so much!
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5700 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 8 of 13 25 June 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged |
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8/10, though I think I had some lucky guesses.
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