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Calvin

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Nov 15, 2011, 6:38:07 PM11/15/11
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Fun with language ;-)


Part 1: What is the time?

Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
display the diacritics :-)]

1 Wat is de tijd
2 Какво е времето
3 Co je to čas
4 Vad är på gång
5 O que é o tempo


Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?

From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
film.

6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or
7 Orbis non sufficit
8 Una vista a uccidere il
9 Der Spion der mich liebte
10 Digitus aurum


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cheers,
calvin

Chris F.A. Johnson

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Nov 15, 2011, 7:11:02 PM11/15/11
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On 2011-11-15, Calvin wrote:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
> a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
> anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
> display the diacritics :-)]
>
> 1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch

> 2 ????? ? ???????

???????

> 3 Co je to ?as
> 4 Vad är på gång

Tagalog

> 5 O que é o tempo

Portuguese

>
> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

The Man with the Golden Gun

> 7 Orbis non sufficit

The World Is Not Enough

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il

A View to a Kill

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte

The Spy Who Loved Me

> 10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger

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Calvin

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Nov 15, 2011, 7:38:29 PM11/15/11
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:11:02 +1000, Chris F.A. Johnson
<cfajo...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> 2 ????? ? ???????
>
> ???????

It seems to be rendering properly in google groups. Feel free to check it
there and post a follow up.


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cheers,
calvin

Mark Brader

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Nov 15, 2011, 8:10:46 PM11/15/11
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Calvin writes:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
> a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
> anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
> display the diacritics :-)]

Yep, I had to skip some of these.

> 1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch.

> 2 ...
> 3 ...
> 4 ...
> 5 O que é o tempo

Portuguese?


> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

"The Man with the Golden Gun"

> 7 Orbis non sufficit

"The World is Not Enough"

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il

"A View to a Kill"

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte

"The Spy who Loved Me"

> 10 Digitus aurum

"Goldfinger"

--
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Toronto "Whenever 'whom' sounds correct, recast the sentence."
m...@vex.net -- William Safire, NY Times Magazine

My text in this article is in the public domain.

Calvin

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Nov 15, 2011, 8:19:17 PM11/15/11
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:38:07 +1000, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:


> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text
> to a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects
> of anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader
> doesn't display the diacritics :-)]
>
> 1 Wat is de tijd
> 2 Какво е времето
> 3 Co je to čas
> 4 Vad är på gång
> 5 O que é o tempo

If these aren't rendering properly, try here:

https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.trivia/browse_thread/thread/151bc006ce398945?hl=en#

--
cheers,
calvin

Marc Dashevsky

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Nov 15, 2011, 8:45:08 PM11/15/11
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In article <op.v40g9...@04233-26jz62s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au>, cal...@phlegm.com says...
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
> a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
> anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
> display the diacritics :-)]
>
> 1 Wat is de tijd
Dutch

> 2 КаквÐ=3F е вреÐ=3FеÑ=3FÐ=3F
Russian

> 3 Co je to Ä as
Portuguese

> 4 Vad Ã=3Fr pÃ¥ gÃ¥ng
Swedish

> 5 O que é o tempo
Italian

> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or
The Man With The Golden Gun

> 7 Orbis non sufficit
The World Is Not Enough

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il
A View To A Kill

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte
The Spy Who Loved Me

> 10 Digitus aurum
Goldfinger

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Dan Tilque

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Nov 16, 2011, 2:25:48 AM11/16/11
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Calvin wrote:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text
> to a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects
> of anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader
> doesn't display the diacritics :-)]

I had to tell it it was in UTF-8, For some reason it couldn't figure
that out, even though it was in your header.

>
> 1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch

> 2 Какво е времето

Russian

> 3 Co je to čas

Czech

> 4 Vad är på gång

Swedish

> 5 O que é o tempo

Spanish

>
>
> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

Man with the Golden Gun

> 7 Orbis non sufficit

The World is not Enough

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il

A View to a Kill

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte

The Spy Who Loved Me

> 10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger


--
Dan Tilque

"I can't believe this. Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex-starved
teenage werewolf. There was nothing about this in any of my Imperial
Academy training manuals..."
-- "Labyrinth", Lois McMaster Bujold

Joachim Parsch

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Nov 16, 2011, 2:47:52 AM11/16/11
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Calvin schrieb:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
> a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
> anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
> display the diacritics :-)]
>

>1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch.

>2 ????? ? ???????

Russian? :-)

>3 Co je to cas

Romanian? (no idea, really)

>4 Vad är på gång

Danish.

>5 O que é o tempo

Spanish.

> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

The man with a golden gun.

> 7 Orbis non sufficit

The world is not enough.

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il

A view to a kill.

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte

The spy who loved me.

> 10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger.

Joachim

Stan Brown

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Nov 16, 2011, 6:38:41 AM11/16/11
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:38:07 +1000, Calvin wrote:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
> a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
> anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
> display the diacritics :-)]
>
> 1 Wat is de tijd
Dutch

> 2 ????? ? ???????

Turkish?

> 3 Co je to cas

> 4 Vad är på gång

Swedish

> 5 O que é o tempo

Portuguese?

>
> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

The Man with the Golden Gun

> 7 Orbis non sufficit

The world is not Enough

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il

A View to a Kill

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte

The Spy Who Loved Me

> 10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger

--
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http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

Stan Brown

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Nov 16, 2011, 6:41:29 AM11/16/11
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:38:41 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:38:07 +1000, Calvin wrote:
> >
> > Fun with language ;-)
> >
> >
> > Part 1: What is the time?
> >
> > Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
> > a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
> > anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
> > display the diacritics :-)]
> >
> > 1 Wat is de tijd
> Dutch
>
> > 2 ????? ? ???????
>
> Turkish?

After you posted the follow-up so I could see the characters, I
change my answer to: Greek.

Peter Smyth

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Nov 16, 2011, 4:24:13 PM11/16/11
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"Calvin" wrote in message
news:op.v40g9...@04233-26jz62s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au...
>
>
>Fun with language ;-)
>
>
>Part 1: What is the time?
>
>Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text to
>a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects of
>anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader doesn't
>display the diacritics :-)]
>
>1 Wat is de tijd
Dutch
>2 Какво е времето
Russian
>3 Co je to čas
Turkish
>4 Vad är på gång
Swedish
>5 O que é o tempo
Spanish
>
>
>Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
>6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or
The Man With the Golden Gun
>7 Orbis non sufficit
The World Is Not Enough
>8 Una vista a uccidere il
A View To A Kill
>9 Der Spion der mich liebte
>10 Digitus aurum
Goldfinger

Peter Smyth

Pete

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Nov 16, 2011, 11:33:21 PM11/16/11
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Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote in
news:op.v40g9...@04233-26jz62s.staff.ad.bond.edu.au:

>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text
> to a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no
> dialects of anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your
> newsreader doesn't display the diacritics :-)]
>
> 1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch

> 2 Какво е времето
> 3 Co je to čas
> 4 Vad är på gång

Romanian

> 5 O que é o tempo

Portuguese

>
>
> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James
> Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

The Man With The Golden Gun

> 7 Orbis non sufficit

Once Is Not Enough

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il

A View To A Kill

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte

From Russia With Love

> 10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger

>
>
Pete

Erland Sommarskog

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Nov 17, 2011, 3:45:31 PM11/17/11
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Calvin (cal...@phlegm.com) writes:
> 1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch

> 2 ????? ? ???????

Russian

> 3 Co je to ?as

Czech

> 4 Vad är på gång

Swedish. Except that the above translates to "What is going on?"
The correct phrase for this quiz would be "Vad är klockan?".

> 5 O que é o tempo

Portuguese

> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

The Man with the Golden Arm

> 7 Orbis non sufficit

Too Much is not Enough

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il

A View to Kill (My Italian grammar check says that a word is misisng
at the end.)

> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte

My Beloved Spy

> 10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se

Rob Parker

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Nov 17, 2011, 5:05:22 PM11/17/11
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1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch (?)

2 Какво е времето

Russian (?)

3 Co je to čas

Hungarian (?)

4 Vad är på gång

Swedish (?)

5 O que é o tempo

Spanish (?)

6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

The Man with the Golden Gun

7 Orbis non sufficit

The World Is Not Enough

8 Una vista a uccidere il

A View To A Kill

9 Der Spion der mich liebte

The Spy Who Loved Me

10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger


Rob


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calvin

Calvin

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Nov 17, 2011, 5:27:47 PM11/17/11
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:45:31 +1000, Erland Sommarskog
<esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:

> Calvin (cal...@phlegm.com) writes:

>> 4 Vad är på gång
>
> Swedish. Except that the above translates to "What is going on?"
> The correct phrase for this quiz would be "Vad är klockan?".

Oops. Lousy on-line translators :-)

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calvin

Jeffrey Turner

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Nov 18, 2011, 12:58:02 PM11/18/11
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On 11/15/2011 6:38 PM, Calvin wrote:
>
> Fun with language ;-)
>
>
> Part 1: What is the time?
>
> Each of the following phrases asks "What is the time?". Match the text
> to a European language. [They are all mainstream languages, no dialects
> of anything tricky like that. This will be harder if your newsreader
> doesn't display the diacritics :-)]
>
> 1 Wat is de tijd
Dutch
> 2 Какво е времето
Russian
> 3 Co je to čas
> 4 Vad är på gång
Hungarian
> 5 O que é o tempo
Portuguese
>
>
> Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?
>
> From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James Bond
> film.
>
> 6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or
The man with the golden gun
> 7 Orbis non sufficit

> 8 Una vista a uccidere il
View to a Kill
> 9 Der Spion der mich liebte
> 10 Digitus aurum
Goldfinger

--Jeff

Mark Brader

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Nov 24, 2011, 8:13:16 PM11/24/11
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No closing date was given for this contest, but it's been a week-plus...
--
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Toronto | Open or glass-fronted, in three sizes and three finishes,
m...@vex.net | UNIX gives unapproached flexibility."
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Calvin

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Nov 27, 2011, 7:01:44 PM11/27/11
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Sorry for the delay. I've been away for a few days and posted the
results before I left, but my posting issue seems to have recurred so
I'm back to Google Groups. The really annoying part is that it isn't
evident there is a problem until I realise that no-one is replying to
my posts.


On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:38:07 +1000, Calvin <cal...@phlegm.com> wrote:

Part 1: What is the time?

Apologies to anyone who had trouble reading this, especially the
Cyrillic script. I should have made a PDF and uploaded that somewhere.

1 Wat is de tijd

Dutch
11/11

2 Какво е времето

Bulgarian
0/11

3 Co je to čas

Czech
2/11

4 Vad är på gång

Swedish (a loose translation apparently:-)
6/11

5 O que é o tempo

Portuguese
6/11


Part 2: Do you expect me to talk?

From the foreign language translation, supply the title of a James
Bond film.

6 L'homme avec le pistolet d'or

The Man with the Golden Gun
10/11

7 Orbis non sufficit

The World is Not Enough
8/11
Also the Bond family motto

8 Una vista a uccidere il

A View to a Kill
11/11
I thought this was the hardest one yet everyone got it

9 Der Spion der mich liebte

The Spy Who Loved Me
7/11

10 Digitus aurum

Goldfinger, of course
11/11


Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 TOTAL RQ 40
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 8 Dan Tilque
1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 Stan Brown
1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 Chris Johnson
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 7 Marc Dashevsky
1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 Mark Brader
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 7 Rob Parker
1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 6 Erland S
1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 6 Joachim Parsch
1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 Peter Smythe
1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 5 Jeffrey Turner
1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 5 Pete Gayde
- - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
11 0 2 6 6 10 8 11 7 11 72 65%


It was remiss of me now to have a tie-break question. Congratulations
Dan and Stan- whoever gets in first can set RQ41. Thanks for playing.

--
cheers,
calvin

cheers,
calvin

Dan Tilque

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Nov 27, 2011, 11:45:29 PM11/27/11
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Calvin wrote:

>
>
> It was remiss of me now to have a tie-break question. Congratulations
> Dan and Stan- whoever gets in first can set RQ41. Thanks for playing.

I just did Rotating Quiz #39, so Stan can have the privilege of doing
the next one. As far as I can tell, he's never done one, so it's time he
contributed.

Stan Brown

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Nov 30, 2011, 2:05:16 PM11/30/11
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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:45:29 -0800, Dan Tilque wrote:
>
> Calvin wrote:

> > It was remiss of me now to have a tie-break question. Congratulations
> > Dan and Stan- whoever gets in first can set RQ41. Thanks for playing.
>
> I just did Rotating Quiz #39, so Stan can have the privilege of doing
> the next one. As far as I can tell, he's never done one, so it's time he
> contributed.

I had a clever idea, but unfortunately all the answers are in one
Wikipedia article, so I'm pondering on something else.

Mark Brader

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Nov 30, 2011, 3:40:09 PM11/30/11
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Stan Brown:
> I had a clever idea, but unfortunately all the answers are in one
> Wikipedia article...

Well, it's not as if entrants will be consulting that.

Or is it that you want a better source for the answers?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "When I wanted to be a sigquote, that wasn't
m...@vex.net | the one I was thinking of." --Clive Feather
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