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Author Message Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2652 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 12:19 pm:        "It's a worm!" "No, it's a lion!" Mattiel (Mattiel) New member Username: Mattiel Post Number: 101 Registered: 6-2005 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 1:12 pm:        Do "worm" and "lion" refer to real animals? Symbols? Pictures? Drawings? Is that a conversation between two persons? Age, sex, location relevant? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2656 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 2:26 pm:        Do "worm" and "lion" refer to real animals? Symbols? Pictures? Drawings? No to all. Is that a conversation between two persons? Yes. Age, Yesish. sex, No. location relevant? Yes. Mattiel (Mattiel) New member Username: Mattiel Post Number: 102 Registered: 6-2005 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 2:42 pm:        Let's call them Thom and John :-) Are they the same age? For each of them: children? teenagers? adults? What is relevant in the location? Country? City? Concrete location (ex. house, school, market, etc.)? Are "worm" and "lion" words from a sort of code between Thom and John? Do Thom and John give the same meaning to these two words? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2663 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 4:15 pm:        Let's call them Thom and John :-) <b>Okay.<7b> Are they the same age? Yes. For each of them: children? This. teenagers? adults? What is relevant in the location? Country? This. City? Concrete location (ex. house, school, market, etc.)? This sort of location os relevant as well. Are "worm" and "lion" words from a sort of code between Thom and John? No. Do Thom and John give the same meaning to these two words? Yope. Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 2401 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 5:04 pm:        Are they on a farm? In a rural town? Do "worm" and "lion" refer to the same thing? Are Thom and John trying to identify something? Describe something? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2667 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 7:55 pm:        Are they on a farm? Yes. In a rural town? Do "worm" and "lion" refer to the same thing? Yes. Are Thom and John trying to identify something? Noish. Describe something? Sort of. Fermat1601 (Fermat1601) New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 132 Registered: 6-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 8:51 pm:        Is the thing a physical object? A farm tool? A building? An unfamiliar thing from the city? Is the language they are speaking relevant? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2673 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 8:58 pm:        Is the thing a physical object? Yes. A farm tool? A building? An unfamiliar thing from the city? No to the rest. Is the language they are speaking relevant? Yes. Fermat1601 (Fermat1601) New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 133 Registered: 6-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:01 pm:        Is it an Indo-European language? If so, is it: Indo-Iranian? Greek? Romance? Germanic? Baltic? Slavic? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2675 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:03 pm:        Is it an Indo-European language? If so, is it: Indo-Iranian? Greek? Romance? Germanic? This - beware of FA though. Baltic? Slavic? Fermat1601 (Fermat1601) New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 136 Registered: 6-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:15 pm:        Are they both speaking the same language? Can we say that Tom speaks X and John speaks Y? Is X: West Germanic? If so: German? Dutch? Frisian? English? Scots? North Germanic? If so: Danish? Swedish? Norwegian: Nynorsk? Bo*kmal? Icelandic? Same questions for Y. Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2677 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:36 pm:        Are they both speaking the same language? No, that was the FA. Can we say that Tom speaks X and John speaks Y? Is X: West Germanic? If so: German? Dutch? Frisian? English? Scots? North Germanic? If so: Danish? Swedish? Norwegian: Nynorsk? Bo*kmal? Icelandic? Same questions for Y. Thom speaks Swedish, and is calling it a worm. John speaks Norwegian, and is calling it a lion. Fermat1601 (Fermat1601) New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 142 Registered: 6-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:47 pm:        Does it go something like this: English "worm" in Swedish is "qwerty" Norwegian "qwerty" in English is "lion" ? Or are "worm" and/or "lion" Swedish or Norwegian words? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2681 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:51 pm:        Does it go something like this: English "worm" in Swedish is "qwerty" Norwegian "qwerty" in English is "lion" ? Or are "worm" and/or "lion" Swedish or Norwegian words? No. It is not a play on words in any way, and you'll probably have more luck if you try to identify "it". Fermat1601 (Fermat1601) New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 143 Registered: 6-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 9:52 pm:        Is "it" found in the city? Is it human-made? Does it use electricity? Is it edible? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2683 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 10:05 pm:        Is "it" found in the city? Not primarily. Is it human-made? Does it use electricity? Is it edible? No to the rest. Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 2429 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 10:05 pm:        Do the Swedish word for "worm" and Norwegian word for "lion" sound the same? Are they the same word? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2687 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 10:31 pm:        Do the Swedish word for "worm" and Norwegian word for "lion" sound the same? Are they the same word? No to all. Fermat1601 (Fermat1601) New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 151 Registered: 6-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 10:50 pm:        Is "it" alive? A plant? A crop? A flower? Is it a geographic feature? Is it a natural resource? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2691 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 10:52 pm:        Is "it" alive? A plant? A crop? A flower? This. Is it a geographic feature? Is it a natural resource? Fermat1601 (Fermat1601) New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 152 Registered: 6-2010 Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 11:02 pm:        Dictionary: Løveblomst (lion flower) is a word in Norwegian. Relevant? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2693 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 8:39 am:        Dictionary: Løveblomst (lion flower) is a word in Norwegian. Relevant? Yes, but it's actually Løvetann (lion's tooth). Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 2463 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 3:22 pm:        Is there a similar word for a flower in Swedish that means "worm's something"? So they're trying to figure out what kind of flower it is? And one thinks it's a "worm's something", while the other thinks it's a "lion's tooth"? Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2707 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 4:00 pm:        Is there a similar word for a flower in Swedish that means "worm's something"? So they're trying to figure out what kind of flower it is? And one thinks it's a "worm's something", while the other thinks it's a "lion's tooth"? ****SPOILER**** A Swedish and a Norwegian kid are arguing about a dandelion. It's called "løvetann" (lion's tooth) in Norwegian, and "maskros" (worm-rose) in Swedish. Similar words that mean different things are also fun. For example, the word for glass in Norwegian is that for ice cream in Swedish. And a Swedish slang word for beer sounds the same as the Norwegian word for poop.