All I see are math symbols.
Well, the answer has lots of numbers. So it checks out, I guess?
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This might sound random, especially in this community, but when you create a classroom, you can activate infinite hearts. Nobody has to be in that classroom. It really works or at least worked a few years back.
My beloved internet friend, thank you so, so much. I like duolingo for expanding my vocabulary, but the infantilizing gamification drives me nuts, to the point where when I run out of hearts, I just don’t use it for weeks. This little trick will make it so that I actually use it!
I went to a certain military training school with some linguists, and they told me they had face-to-face proficiency tests like quarterly.
The tests would start with normal benign conversational topics, like one would expect, but then escalate to weirdness from there.
Things like “Are you more worried about the recent nuclear-waste-being-found-in-kayaks issue, or the ongoing chihuahuas-shitting-out-whole-uncured-meat-products problem?”. The point was to see if the linguist could piece together information from non-standard esoteric shit.
Those 615 giraffes look like they’d fit right into such a test.
TIL DuoLingo is secretly using military tech
I believe these are put in place to actually test your knowledge of the vocabulary and grammar, vs just being good at memorizing the handful of simple conversational samples.
The lack of the word “and” in the number there made this parse really weirdly in my brain.
Instead of “I play with 615 giraffes”, I read it as “I play with 600 15-giraffes”. I don’t know what a 15-giraffe is, but it sounds like it might be an unstable isotope or something.
Thanks for spelling out why this felt wrong to me
Yeah, as far as I can tell it’s normal in America to say 615 as “six hundred fifteen”, whereas the rest of the anglosphere would say “six hundred and fifteen”.
The fact that the line break happened to be right where the word “and” was missing probably made it even harder to parse correctly.
Im American. I might read the number 615 as “six hundred fifteen” in some cases. Like if I was counting.
But I would not say “six hundred fifteen giraffes”, I would say “six hundred and fifteen giraffes”
Funny enough, I was taught that including the “and” was explicitly wrong in first grade! (American here)
Me too. I still don’t know why.
TIL it’s not explicitly wrong
Today I learned that a giraffe in Greek is a spotted camel.
Damn… How do you pronounce it ?
What am I looking at here?? Its all Greek to me
