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.

[michelleful@scicomm.xyz]

@conniptions Interesting! Do you use the term "working week" instead? If it's any consolation I accept British and American spelling! If they have a different number of blanks that's a bit harder to support though...

[michelleful@scicomm.xyz]

@Ruhrnalist @pentup Excellent!! The 3rd mode, which has zero hints, even free ones (except for "next letter please") is currently the "challenging" mode

[conniptions@mastodon.social]

@michelleful Yes, 'working week' would be more of a thing, though not a common usage really. 'Workweek' is an interesting Americanism in that it is both highly obscure (to me at least) yet immediately and unambiguously intelligible, once given, and ofc tough to fill in a blank with if you've never heard of it. Contrast 'pants' or 'sidewalk' which are widely known Americanisms outside the US, yet both highly ambiguous and essentially unparseable without prior knowledge.

[conniptions@mastodon.social]

@michelleful There's an argument to say accepting only American spelling would be better if terms like 'workweek' are being used. But this could all be just me demonstrating the limitations of my own personal vocabulary; perhaps 'workweek' is not after all as obscure round these parts as I think? I don't work for the OED or anything Am tempted to run a poll tomorrow when the rest of the UK is awake.

[michelleful@scicomm.xyz]

@conniptions please do and let me know the results!!

I am definitely going to continue accepting the British spelling, if only because I am someone who both uses it (coming from Singapore) and uses the word "workweek" (for whatever reason, I don't feel like it's ever not been in my vocabulary).

[michelleful@scicomm.xyz]

@larozeppeli thank you!! This is what I was aiming for!

[sharonybaloney@alaskan.social]

@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.

[ortie@corneill.es]

Poké @LeoApwal

[deuflemoelleux@masto.bike]

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

[blanche@piaille.fr]

@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

[irina@wandering.shop]

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

[rubyjones@wandering.shop]

@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.

[stroomafwaarts@todon.nl]

@michelleful this is fun!
I speak both languages, and I love the explanations!
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[acb@mastodon.social]

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

[acb@mastodon.social]

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

[bez_lightyear@crispsandwi.ch]

@michelleful This is great!

[wehpudicabok@kind.social]

@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