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  3. I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

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  • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

    @Sharonybaloney if you tap on a word (e.g. ich) and then the first blank, does it move?

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    @michelleful oh, wow! I thought I tapped it every possible way. But that worked. I figured it was a me problem, but I’m glad I said something because I was curious to see where it was going as the difficulty ramped up. Thanks.

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    • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

      I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

      It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

      German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy

      Personal website for Michelle Fullwood, NLP scientist and linguistic tinkerer. Language tools, maps, miscellany.

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      Poké @LeoApwal

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      • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

        I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

        It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

        German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy

        Personal website for Michelle Fullwood, NLP scientist and linguistic tinkerer. Language tools, maps, miscellany.

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        @michelleful French speaker here, learned English and German at school, this is a fun three languages exercise.

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        • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

          @Oelnbod you need to put another noun in the first positions! Click on the current noun to return and try a different one! Same for both clauses. 🙂

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          @michelleful @Oelnbod I got stuck there for a minute too. I think it would help to have a sentence like “the subject isn’t always in first position” on that screen.
          I finished the first level and I liked it 😊

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          • pentup@mastodon.artP pentup@mastodon.art

            @michelleful
            For the "I drank beer" puzzle, the explanation talks about why "have" gets moved to the second slot, but that doesn't seem like what happened to me. I feel like "I have drunk beer" would be the English order of those words (not "I beer have drunk"), so the weirdness to me is that in German "drunk" comes after "beer", not that "have" comes before "beer".

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            @michelleful It took me a minute to figure out why I couldn't type anything here!

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            • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

              @rubyjones you need to put another noun in the first positions! Click on the current noun to return and try a different one! Same for both clauses

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              @michelleful Ah, OK, thank you. I think some kind of visual feedback would help here, as the tiles are showing green, so it looks like it's correct. I also found it difficult to swap the nouns out, as I had tried that before and it seemed like it wouldn't let me. I tried a few more times after you said and eventually got it to work, but that might be something to look at.

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              • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

                I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

                It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

                German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy

                Personal website for Michelle Fullwood, NLP scientist and linguistic tinkerer. Language tools, maps, miscellany.

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                #etymology #linguistics #puzzles #LearnGerman

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                @michelleful this is fun!
                I speak both languages, and I love the explanations!
                🖤❤️💛

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                • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

                  I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

                  It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

                  German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy

                  Personal website for Michelle Fullwood, NLP scientist and linguistic tinkerer. Language tools, maps, miscellany.

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                  #etymology #linguistics #puzzles #LearnGerman

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                  @michelleful @jimbob Any plans to expand this to other languages?

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                  • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

                    I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

                    It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

                    German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy

                    Personal website for Michelle Fullwood, NLP scientist and linguistic tinkerer. Language tools, maps, miscellany.

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                    #etymology #linguistics #puzzles #LearnGerman

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                    @michelleful Nice work! Though for me it seems to get stuck at this screen, with no feedback or ways to progress.

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                    • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

                      I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

                      It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

                      German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy

                      Personal website for Michelle Fullwood, NLP scientist and linguistic tinkerer. Language tools, maps, miscellany.

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                      #etymology #linguistics #puzzles #LearnGerman

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                      @michelleful This is great!

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                      • michelleful@scicomm.xyzM michelleful@scicomm.xyz

                        I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching.

                        It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome.

                        German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy

                        Personal website for Michelle Fullwood, NLP scientist and linguistic tinkerer. Language tools, maps, miscellany.

                        favicon

                        (michellefullwood.com)

                        #etymology #linguistics #puzzles #LearnGerman

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                        @michelleful this was both fun and slightly embarrassing for me, as i took a semester of german in college and seem to have forgotten almost all of it

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