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#Post#: 17505--------------------------------------------------
Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: Nikola Date: July 6, 2019, 11:07 am
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This is going to sound terribly lazy. I was eating tortilla
chips and thinking about what to write a post about, when I
realised I could just post the bag (the name of the product and
the list of ingredients, to be specific) because there was a
rather nice selection of languages there. Can you guess any of
them?
1. [img width=300
height=95]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack105.jpg?ver=0[/img]
2. [img width=300
height=79]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack502.jpg?ver=0[/img]
3. [img width=300
height=100]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack308.jpg?ver=0[/img]
4. [img width=300
height=101]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack406.jpg?ver=0[/img]
5. [img width=300
height=86]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack201.jpg?ver=0[/img]
6. [img width=300
height=102]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack603.jpg?ver=0[/img]
7. [img width=300
height=91]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack704.jpg?ver=0[/img]
8. [img width=300
height=93]
HTML https://img26.rajce.idnes.cz/d2603/16/16180/16180660_21afdc90e26c5b326ea7e3912d8aeac9/thumb/snack807.jpg?ver=0[/img]
The order is completely random. On some of them, the name of the
country was shown so I had to do some cropping. Hope I managed
to remove all such hints.
Have fun!
#Post#: 17506--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: MartinSR Date: July 6, 2019, 11:34 am
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Having exluded non-Slavic: 6-Hungarian and 8-Romanian, we get 2
West-Slavic (2,5) and 4 South-Slavic (1,3,4,7) what is hard to
differentiate to me.
Starting from our close neighbours I would opt for 5-Czech and
2-Slovak. I think that "'" apostrophes are more typical to
Slovak which should have the flexion endings more familiar to
me. The word "uchovejte" I connect to Czech. Am I wrong?
And now it's getting worse.
3 is Cyrillic, so we have a few options, but the script doesn't
look like Serbian to me (I see only the characters I know from
Russian), so I opt for Bulgarian.
1 and 4 are extremely similar. I think 4 is more like Croatian
to me, so maybe 1 us Serbian in Latin script or some other
language of the former YU.
I always say I have problems with understanding Slovenian, and
the language looking most unfamiliar is 7.
Ufff. I hope I guessed a few.
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Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: MartinSR Date: July 6, 2019, 11:37 am
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And if 3 may be Bulgarian, may be also Macedonian, because they
should be similar.
#Post#: 17508--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: MartinSR Date: July 6, 2019, 11:51 am
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My is very easy:
[img width=225
height=300]
HTML https://i.ibb.co/2n0LSzc/15624313317137101735835628824028.jpg[/img]
HTML https://ibb.co/4mwD2b4
#Post#: 17509--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: Truman Overby Date: July 6, 2019, 12:03 pm
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Imagine how much less certain products would cost if they didn't
have to do this. Over here it's generally Spanish that gets
tacked on.
#Post#: 17513--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: Nikola Date: July 6, 2019, 1:24 pm
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[quote author=MartinSR link=topic=1204.msg17506#msg17506
date=1562430883]
Having exluded non-Slavic: 6-Hungarian and 8-Romanian, we get 2
West-Slavic (2,5) and 4 South-Slavic (1,3,4,7) what is hard to
differentiate to me.
Starting from our close neighbours I would opt for 5-Czech and
2-Slovak. I think that "'" apostrophes are more typical to
Slovak which should have the flexion endings more familiar to
me. The word "uchovejte" I connect to Czech. Am I wrong?
And now it's getting worse.
3 is Cyrillic, so we have a few options, but the script doesn't
look like Serbian to me (I see only the characters I know from
Russian), so I opt for Bulgarian.
1 and 4 are extremely similar. I think 4 is more like Croatian
to me, so maybe 1 us Serbian in Latin script or some other
language of the former YU.
I always say I have problems with understanding Slovenian, and
the language looking most unfamiliar is 7.
Ufff. I hope I guessed a few.
[/quote]
Wow, Martin. You're good at this. I don't know whether to reveal
everything yet or not. There's still a bit of room for
improvement but not much. You got almost everything right.
Your picture... well, I can see English, I'm going to say French
for No. 2 (I don't speak French, it just has that feel), 3.
Polish because of the crossed L's, 4. I'll go with Russian, 5.
It sounds Spanish. It's definitely a Romance language and it's
not Italian :) 6. I'm torn between Turkish and Hungarian, more
inclined towards Turkish because of the Y's.
#Post#: 17515--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: MartinSR Date: July 6, 2019, 1:38 pm
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Nikola, you are 100% right ;D
Added:
I think Irena is the only person who would get 100% in your
question ;)
My question was a little bit more universal, though some people
could have problems with Polish and Turkish. I knew Alharacas
would know it. And you spotted the "&#305;" very well.
#Post#: 17517--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: NealC Date: July 6, 2019, 2:20 pm
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In any language that is a lot of ingredients for plain tortilla
chips. I would suggest some other snack?
#Post#: 17518--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: MartinSR Date: July 6, 2019, 2:47 pm
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[quote author=NealC link=topic=1204.msg17517#msg17517
date=1562440811]
In any language that is a lot of ingredients for plain tortilla
chips. I would suggest some other snack?
[/quote]
You're right with that. The ingredients look very similar in all
languages. To my surprise even the Hungarian looks intelligible
here - we normally say Hungarian is as understandable as Chinese
(what means we can recognise no word). We would need something
that looks more or less like a normal story.
In my example the samples were too short, you could recognise
any word or not. Only a few specific characters gave some hints.
#Post#: 17519--------------------------------------------------
Re: Guess the Language: Tortilla Chips
By: Nikola Date: July 6, 2019, 3:14 pm
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[quote author=NealC link=topic=1204.msg17517#msg17517
date=1562440811]
In any language that is a lot of ingredients for plain tortilla
chips. I would suggest some other snack?
[/quote]
They're sweet chilli flavour if that makes it any better? :)
Probably not.
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