You got me wrong. Arabic has 300 root words for "lion". You can hear 300 different words and they all mean a lion. Arabic also has around 16 million words as it is a 3 letters rooted language.
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As a person from a Slavic speaking nation and one that understands 4 other Slavic languages and I can even read few forms of cyrillics, I can honestly say I couldn't distinguish Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian etc. and even then I wouldn't know a band from that country.
I would curse you, but yes, it is much better to do it in a Slavic language. :P
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Slavic languages are strange beasts. You cannot really name many (if any) other language families that have an allergy to vowels. :)
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Strč prst skrz krk is the easiest Czech tonguetwister of them all:-)
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Well, I still prefer ours. ^.^ We like vowels. And we also like agglutination a lot. So we entertain the foreigners with words like megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért. (Starts from the core 'szent' meaning 'holy' and just adds up to this: 'due to [plural]you repeatedly not being able to break your holiness'.
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Hungarian!! XD How the heck are you able to cope with 29 grammatical cases?!?!? Mine 7 is absolutely enough.
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Well, we don't really. basic grammar is taught for at least 8, but usually for 12 years. People who can phrase proper sentences without errors are rare – especially when you consider the local grammatical deviations, despite us being a small little country.
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But in the everyday speach people use them right, I suppose? Since you should already know all the cases within your mother tongue by the time you begin school, you just don't have a clue what they are called or grasp the concept of a case to begin with.
Sure there is more ground for misconceptions the more cases there are, but I wouldn't blame poor Hungarian for it, people would something different to make mistakes in if not for the cases!
Just kidding, Hungarian is the absolute worst! :3
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In everyday speech, most people generally tend to use it correctly – it is our native tongue, after all. :) It is a clear indicator of lack of general education (especially in the really poor classes) when somebody mixes up their sentence cases.
Still, in my experience people living here can learn the language properly just fine. For some reason, Poles and Central (or black) Africans seem to have a better ratio of doing so (and also second-generation Chinese).
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Haha, you're right. But not all Slavic languages works this way. For example words in Polish must have at least one vowel. Nobody cares it can be a long word. If it has one a vowel then it's okay :D
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Heh, true. Czech is the most often cited for this, they even have a few jokes about that. And strangely they still don't sound as "hard" as Serbian. I grew up near the then-Yugoslav border and whenever I hear Serbian, it sounds like a language that bludgeons you.
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Hey I speak like 3 Slavic languages and it's quite difficult. Thanks for including one of the best bands from Bosnia and Herzegovina DUBIOZA KOLEKTIV. If you really like Ska, I have two bands from CROATIA you might not know about - the Mediterranean Ska band Mjesni odbor (Local committee), check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQQQKc-VAec&list=PLspFdl4k4IKFz1ewqRIYFt7NCfGVKUmDv and the band Justin's Johnsons - https://www.youtube.com/user/justinsjohnsonst You'll like both !!!!
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Thanks for the puzzle but I have 502 Bad Gateway error when trying to press the link :-(
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Seems SGTools is down again, try once more in few minutes. The link is surely not broken.
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Bump for solved.
Nice idea and execution. Can't wait for vol.2
Hvala ;)
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fck i answer for all and i have this game xd but nice idea for puzzle :)
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Slavic languages... There is a number of them, all similar but all unique. And all of them are beautiful!
Some of you might have never heard any of the languages being spoken and I would like you to listen to few songs to acknowledge with them. (For most of you, I suppose, they'll sound the same with all those rustling and swishing sounds, haha).
But don't be discouraged, smile and take a ride with the HAPPY SLAVIC PUZZLE TRAIN!
Of course it will be easier for those living in some Slavic countries, but I don't think anyone will know all the answers immediately.
If you don't know the answer... Bruteforcing is also a way to solve some puzzles. Haha.
I just hope you'll have a good time with the happy music that ska is.
I love the music and I would love to share some happiness with you!
Also, I understand more or less of every song. But not all and not entirely. Sooo, if it happens that any of them have some disturbing lyrics (I really hope not, sic!), I humbly apologize for making you blush or making your ears bleed.
Enjoy!
Something extra for you from a friend of mine.
PS
Since I have complaining about entering via SGTools, I know it's been down lately pretty much. There is still lot of time left, a bit of patience, please. I prefer fair users who are fair with the awesome community we all create. So if SGTools is down, save the link and try a bit later again. Thank you.
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