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Can you name the essentialist language definitions?
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...is essentially English with vowels added to the ends of words.
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...is essentially the first syllables of Latin words spoken with a headcold.
3
...is essentially Arabic with most consonants changed to 'sh' and 'kh'.
4
...is essentially bad Spanish, mumbled.
5
...is essentially English spoken with a French accent by a German.
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...is essentially Norwegian, only you drop out all the consonants, skip all the vowels and then mispronounce the rest.
7
...is essentially is a lengthy math equation with too many variables.
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...is essentially Italian spoken by Arabs.
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...is essentially Norse as spoken by a gang of French thugs.
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...is essentially Symbolic Logic spoken as a tonal language.
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Essentialist Definition
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...is essentially Hungarian in the snow.
12
...is essentially what you have if you read a satanist mass backwards.
13
...is essentially Russian with beer instead of vodka.
14
...is essentially Spanish and French spoken at the same time.
15
...is essentially Classical Chinese with a second helping of vowels.
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...is essentially a philosophical cough.
17
...is essentially Arabic as spoken by an Italian living in England.
18
...is essentially Neanderthal spoken by Spaniards.
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...is essentially Finnish as spoken by Elves.
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...is essentially English, French, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Finnish, Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, and Russian all divided by 18.
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Essentialist Language Definitions Quiz
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AlexRandom
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Jan 3rd, 2010 at 22:14 GMT
1 point
Bumped the time up from 7 to 10 minutes upon realizing it was too difficult. Thoughts?
Chromatos
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Jan 4th, 2010 at 00:10 GMT
1 point
A lot of the clues seemed impossible, but when comparing the answers, they actually made quite a lot of sense. I especially like the English definition.
leob
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Jan 4th, 2010 at 23:53 GMT
1 point
Finnish is not Turkic and has no common lineage with Turkish. Replace "Turkish" with "Hungarian", it will make more sense.
AlexRandom
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Jan 5th, 2010 at 00:37 GMT
1 point
I didn't invent the definitions, I took them from the linked webpage, which is maintained by linguists so I assumed there would be no such mistakes. However, a little research in Wikipedia seems to support your criticism, so I have made the change.
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