Language quiz

kjeldo · **on:** April 12, 2008, 08:27:33 AM

hi people i saw there was a german history quiz, and i gonna do something to! but there are 2 big differences, 1. it is not about history, its about dutch, 2. and i'm the guy who ask the questions!

rules:

1. every day i post a comment with a dutch word, you guys need to describe what it means
2. after one day i'll say what it means,

just post your question if you don't understand,

all right here's the very first word:

handtas

ok, what means this dutch word?

good luck!

Malte279 · **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2008, 09:03:36 AM

dumbbell or handbag?
Random (and probably wrong) guesses based on phonetic similarity to other words.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2008, 11:06:26 AM

I have no idea what the word means.

Mumbling · **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2008, 12:10:31 PM

I won't tell because it's kjeldo's game... But I think it's too hard kjeld

Dutch words are not like english ones and thats why this game might bore people very fast.

kjeldo · **Reply #4 on:** April 14, 2008, 12:38:40 PM

i think you got a point at that mumbling...

Mumbling · **Reply #5 on:** April 14, 2008, 02:21:42 PM

by the way handbag was a correct answer.

Malte279 · **Reply #6 on:** April 14, 2008, 04:00:31 PM

Cheers!

Now I take my turn and come up with a German word which should be possible to guess for both, our English and our Dutch (and probably other language members as well). What do you make of this German word:

Stra?e

Clawandfang · **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2008, 04:26:03 PM

Strange? Strobe?
Are we doing all words here? I think it would be better if we just stuck to nouns personally.

Malte279 · **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2008, 04:31:56 PM

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Are we doing all words here? I think it would be better if we just stuck to nouns personally.

I definitely agree with you on that one. The word I picked is a noun (nouns are always capitalized in German). The word is one you walk across every day.

Clawandfang · **Reply #9 on:** April 14, 2008, 05:01:21 PM

Road?

Malte279 · **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2008, 05:14:25 AM

That's right

For the more similar word in English one would refer to the word "street" I suppose and in Dutch I think it is "straat".

Clawandfang · **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2008, 07:35:07 AM

So, is it my turn now? Well, the only language I speak is English, but I do know some Latin, so here's a Latin noun:

servus

This should be fairly easy I think. It's got a clear English derivative, but I don't know about other European languages.

Petrie. · **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2008, 08:51:29 AM

server, serving, to serve

That's my guess.

Malte279 · **Reply #13 on:** April 15, 2008, 10:26:15 AM

I had Latin at school, therefore I won't participate in this one. It is a very good idea though for our English speakers to come up with Latin or another language (I think we could well include Spanish into this game too). The only thing we should keep in mind is to pick words which have at least a remote phonetic or other similarity to English so it allows everyone to participate

Clawandfang · **Reply #14 on:** April 15, 2008, 04:06:20 PM

You're very close Petrie, just bear in mind we're only doing nouns, and what Roman culture was like, and you're bound to get it.

Malte279 · **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2008, 04:10:14 PM

"bound to get it", that sounds almost like a hidden hint for the word. One of the words you named is somewhat related with the word looked for here Petrie.

Clawandfang · **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2008, 04:18:31 PM

Well, it wasn't meant to be a hint, although now you mention it, it does look quite good...

Mumbling · **Reply #17 on:** April 17, 2008, 01:16:36 PM

slave probably..

Malte, straat is indeed the dutch word.

Clawandfang · **Reply #18 on:** April 17, 2008, 04:57:20 PM

Slave definately. From which we get the English word "Servant", which is basically a paid slave. Don't know about other Latin-based languages, but I'm guessing they all have something similar.

I suppose we're getting a Dutch word next then.

Clawandfang · **Reply #19 on:** April 17, 2008, 05:08:03 PM

I've just read the first post to this topic properly (before I just skim-read) and it looks as if we've hijacked this topic from its indended purpose.

Oops.