eytanz wrote:
Well, I\'m a graduate student studying generative linguistics - specializing in semantics. Which means I mainly try to figure out the logical structure of natural language.
eytanz, have you ever played any of the Smart Games Challenge games?
www.smartgames.com) They are a collection of puzzle games, a combination of logic, word, and math games. The first collection has a game called Native Tongue, where they show you pictures of various objects and then have the word for that object in the \"
foreign\"
language underneath it. Then the player has to translate an English word into the other language based on the clues. At first it is simple, just figuring out which picture is a bird, for example, but it gets more difficult quickly, as you have to figure out the way the other language does plurals, adjectives, and verbs, and where they go in a sentence. And you have to keep notes of previous puzzles because the vocabulary is continuously going. There are only eight stages but they get really hard really fast, and it is pretty interesting. The first collection is only $10 now, which is a pretty good deal. It runs on anything Windows 3.1 and up. Collections 2 and 3 are more expensive (kind of unreasonably so, since they are so old), but they have some great games too.
Game on,
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He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an
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