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I was up to 500 before missing two in a row, but then I encountered a bug where the audio track seemed to not download properly, so hitting play caused the prog

I was up to 500 before missing two in a row, but then I encountered a bug where the audio track seemed to not download properly, so hitting play caused the progress bar to jump straight to the end without playing anything. Pretty cool idea overall though.

ghayes 13y ago
I got 550 on my first try. It's kind of fun, kind of impossible. Serbian versus Croatian versus Slavic is just a shot in the dark.
- adamnemecek 13y ago
  Do you mean Slovenian?
- hepek 13y ago
  Well, distinguishing standard Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian is impossible even for native speakers, as it is in fact one language. The division being merely a political one. One can only distinguish accent subtletlies in certain words. It would improve fairness of the game and avoid a lot of confusion not to allow these languages appear in the answers together.
  - babuskov 13y ago
    You should either throw Bosnian out or not offer it together with Serbian. It's a dialect of Serbian really and many people in south Serbia speak the that dialect (see for example Sanjak region: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjak_of_Novi_Pazar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjak_of_Novi_Pazar). Bosnian language is just a political decision, because it's a sovereign country now and needed to have it's own language as Serbia was an aggressor in the last war, so having the official language named Serbian would offend both Bosniaks and Croats living in the country. Also, Croatian and Serbian can only be distinguished by words. You can't recognize the intonation because it's the same. If you don't know words specific to these languages, you won't be able to tell the difference. It would be best to have a filter that prevents them being in the same question.
- hepek 13y ago
  Well, distinguishing standard Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian is impossible even for native speakers, as it is in fact one language. The division being merely a political one. One can only distinguish accent subtletlies in certain words. It would improve fairness of the game and avoid a lot of confusion not to allow these languages appear in the answers together.

ghayes 13y ago

I got 550 on my first try. It's kind of fun, kind of impossible. Serbian versus Croatian versus Slavic is just a shot in the dark.

adamnemecek 13y ago
Do you mean Slovenian?
hepek 13y ago
Well, distinguishing standard Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian is impossible even for native speakers, as it is in fact one language. The division being merely a political one. One can only distinguish accent subtletlies in certain words. It would improve fairness of the game and avoid a lot of confusion not to allow these languages appear in the answers together.
- babuskov 13y ago
  You should either throw Bosnian out or not offer it together with Serbian. It's a dialect of Serbian really and many people in south Serbia speak the that dialect (see for example Sanjak region: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjak_of_Novi_Pazar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjak_of_Novi_Pazar). Bosnian language is just a political decision, because it's a sovereign country now and needed to have it's own language as Serbia was an aggressor in the last war, so having the official language named Serbian would offend both Bosniaks and Croats living in the country. Also, Croatian and Serbian can only be distinguished by words. You can't recognize the intonation because it's the same. If you don't know words specific to these languages, you won't be able to tell the difference. It would be best to have a filter that prevents them being in the same question.
hepek 13y ago
Well, distinguishing standard Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian is impossible even for native speakers, as it is in fact one language. The division being merely a political one. One can only distinguish accent subtletlies in certain words. It would improve fairness of the game and avoid a lot of confusion not to allow these languages appear in the answers together.