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- Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:03 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator Jumble
Translator Jumble game. Thirds round. Results. After each username is the sentence she/he received. Stasia - One should not sell the bear skin before killing him. MustafaOuz526752 - Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué. Cifi - Don't sell the skin till you have caught the bea...
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 1:31 am
- Forum: Duolingo
- Topic: XP for practice on the "legendary" level
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2323
Re: XP for practice on the "legendary" level
The android app currently seems to count as follows 15 for a lesson without errors 25 for upleveling (i.e. the extra lesson with "hardest" exercises that is not in the browser) without errors 15 for practising a normal (not broken) golden skill without errors 20 for "regular practice...
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 12:42 am
- Forum: How to ...
- Topic: How to progress in leagues
- Replies: 161
- Views: 48151
Re: How to progress in leagues
"I simply don't understand people who just amass points for the sake of amassing points, rather than spend the same time doing something productive, such as learning something new." ;) Are you really saying you don't understand the concepts of obsessive personality traits and misplaced se...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:50 pm
- Forum: Culture & Society
- Topic: Un estado Varias lenguas
- Replies: 0
- Views: 247
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 2:28 am
- Forum: How to ...
- Topic: How to progress in leagues
- Replies: 161
- Views: 48151
Re: How to progress in leagues
... somehow stuck with insane overachievers, #1 already has more than 18 thousand XP. I looked him up on Duome, he's half way his tree and instead of learning new stuff, he's wasting his time doing the timed challenges. #2 has 14,000 XP (this is a league that opened yesterday!), she has even less o...
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:34 pm
- Forum: Requests new Duome features
- Topic: Giving lingots to other users
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2515
Re: Giving lingots to other users
Block chain.
Duome lingots, the new crypto currency.
- Sun Jul 24, 2022 2:10 am
- Forum: How to ...
- Topic: How to progress in leagues
- Replies: 161
- Views: 48151
Re: How to progress in leagues
Inflation really setting in now.
2200 sitting at 12th in a Monday morning Obsidian League.
It'll require more than 1500 to avoid relegation.
- Sat Jul 23, 2022 12:19 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Do animals represent different things in different cultures?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3204
Re: Do animals represent different things in different cultures?
"Du bist ein Angsthase!" (I don't know how to translate this best, as this compound noun doesn't exist beyond this expression as far as I'm aware - a scared rabbit/hare maybe?) or - I perceive that as slightly old-fashioned - "Hasenfuß" (hare's foot), and there also is. In Engli...
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:06 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator Jumble
Hey, @Stasia , English has diminutives, often the 'y' or 'ie' suffix: 'matey, 'dearie', 'piggy', 'Freddy', just not consistently. That translation could be, with a Victorian or Edwardian tone a 'coffee -ette', or more modernly a 'mini-coffee', or hipsterly, a 'piccolo'. 8-) Great suggestions! Since...
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:57 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator Jumble
Hey, @Stasia , English has diminutives, often the 'y' or 'ie' suffix: 'matey, 'dearie', 'piggy', 'Freddy', just not consistently. That translation could be, with a Victorian or Edwardian tone a 'coffee -ette', or more modernly a 'mini-coffee', or hipsterly, a 'piccolo'. 8-) Great suggestions! Since...
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:34 am
- Forum: Duolingo
- Topic: What's your plans when you finish the tree?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 277
Re: What's your plans when you finish the tree?
I'm well aware of the shortcomings of Duolingo in listening and unassisted production, but I've been content to keep plugging away just on Duolingo until I at least get my golden tree. Once there I'll keep up with cracked skills and Legendary, which is really only revision, and start work on listeni...
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:20 am
- Forum: How to ...
- Topic: How to progress in leagues
- Replies: 161
- Views: 48151
Re: How to progress in leagues
With the introduction of Night Owl and Early Bird double XP, XP inflation has kicked in in earnest.
I'm running 700 to 800 per week to hold between 15 and 10 in Obsidian.
That's with a Monday morning start.
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:52 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator Jumble
Indeed. Then you also have things that are common expressions, but are hard to translate literally. For example in Spanish: He tomado un cafecito esta mañana. Since English does not have diminutives, the most logical translation woud be: I have drank a small coffee this morning. Hey, [mention]Stasi...
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:35 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator Jumble
Corinnebelle wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 12:04 amLooks like poetical nuisances get lost when things are put through translation. This shows it is hard to capture an original thought in another language.
Damn poetical nuisances
If you think Google Translate is bad, see what predictive text does.
- Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:40 am
- Forum: Culture & Society
- Topic: Música en español - Sabrosona
- Replies: 4
- Views: 402
Re: Música en español - Sabrosona
Very clear diction and without the heavy Argentinean accent.
- Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:54 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: ¿Es difícil el idioma español?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 727
Re: ¿Es difícil el idioma español?
I don't agree with [mention]richardkeo2[/mention] about the absence of grammatical concepts in English, at least for those of us who were formally taught grammar. In school I was certainly taught: the difference between 'what' and 'which' (qué/cuál) tense, mood, person (eg do/does), mood, person, vo...
- Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:38 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: ¿Es difícil el idioma español?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 727
Re: ¿Es difícil el idioma español?
I tend to agree with [mention]wayfarer[/mention]. I think Spanish is easier to learn than at least French.
fewer commonly used idioms, e,g "il y a", " ne ... pas"
Many readily recognisable words in common
generally, simple "what you see is what you get"
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- Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:57 pm
- Forum: Sentence discussions
- Topic: ¿Te compro una cámara web que funciona de verdad? (en → es)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 203
Re: ¿Te compro una cámara web que funciona de verdad? (en → es)
[mention]dochawk[/mention] stoppit
- Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:02 am
- Forum: Requests new Duome features
- Topic: I would like to have "proverbs" as a subforum of English - French
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1155
Re: I would like to have "proverbs" as a subforum of English - French
- Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:21 pm
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
- Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:16 pm
- Forum: Requests new Duome features
- Topic: I would like to have "proverbs" as a subforum of English - French
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1155
Re: I would like to have "proverbs" as a subforum of English - French
Building for the future and inviting to share. Is my concept @duome But very many forum/subforum structures look totally different now. ...And that has its justification (I think) The forums i moderate look minimal now but I aspire to be more like Basler Biker and have lots of structure one day in ...
- Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:19 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator jumble
Thanks [mention]gmads[/mention] . Once we finish with this 'simple declarative sentence' id like to try the process again with a some slightly more abstract words/ideas, and then move on towards something that might be a little ambiguous. It will be interesting to see how far it moves with just five...
- Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:16 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator jumble
@Corinnebelle possibly you could list all the finished translations? Slowly editing your post and adding more sentences as they come through, so that we could see how many sentences we have? As well as which languages? Just an idea. I’m excited to see how this will turn out. :) There are now at lea...
- Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:47 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator jumble
John238922 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:28 amIf there's only one dog the English sentence omits the letter s.
Silly me, of course there's an 's' in 'jumps'.
Fine translator I am.
We should go with 'perro perezoso'.
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:31 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator jumble
Just to explain, the sentence [mention]Corinnebelle[/mention] proposed is a standard typewriter test containing all the letters of the [English] alphabet.
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:28 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator jumble
El marron zorro ràpido salta sobre los perros perezosos. I would say: el veloz zorro marrón salta sobre el perro perezoso. (There is only one dog) If there's only one dog the English sentence omits the letter s. I like "veloz zorro marron", but how about someone translates it as I wrote i...
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:21 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: Translator Jumble
- Replies: 463
- Views: 73202
Re: Translator jumble
El marron zorro ràpido salta sobre los perros perezosos.
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:37 am
- Forum: Sentence discussions
- Topic: Las pinturas y las lámparas se movían y yo gritaba. (en → es)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 487
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:27 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: countries flags . . 🎀✨
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1484
Re: countries flags . . 🎀✨
@Stasia, sorry for that. sometimes it just pours out sin limites. :sweat: Nations and, by extension, nationalism are inherently contentious issues. So, although I don’t agree with everything you said, neither can I accept your apology. I find what you said less offensive than what others who assume...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:18 am
- Forum: Random Thoughts
- Topic: countries flags . . 🎀✨
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1484
Re: countries flags . . 🎀✨
I find it quite ironic that most of the countries have flags that symbolise peace, justice, freedom, etc. Their actions on the other hand – namely anti-refugee sentiment, servitude to corporations that exploit economically poorer nations(and even going as far as to depose leaders - see salvador all...