Can you name the cities from their sign language spellings? by bazmerelda

Can you name the cities from their sign language spellings?

created by bazmerelda

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Europe
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Sign Language Cities Quiz

by bazmerelda

Created Oct 6, 2011 in Language
Game Plays 1,107

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	Starchild:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 02:50 GMT	7 points
	Yay, my sign language study finally did something for me! Great quiz, I'd love to see more!

	dolebanana:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 03:56 GMT	7 points
	Wow, this is awesome. May well be my favorite "cryptogram" on Sporcle.

	bazmerelda:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 10:42 GMT	5 points
	@dolebanana: Cryptogram! I knew they had a real name. Adds to tags @Starchild: Thanks. I do have another similar quiz in the pipeline but I'm using a different language to keep people guessing - your sign language can't help you now. Evil Laugh

	trick39berry:	Oct 7th, 2011 at 23:49 GMT	7 points
	Well, even though I did horrible, this is probably one of the greatest games I have ever seen! 5 globes, nomination, and fave!

	RJMurphy:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 10:08 GMT	3 points
	This has undoubtedly confused my slight knowledge of British Sign Language, but is undoubtedly the best cryptogram I've seen. Brilliant job. I expect to see more coming!

	bazmerelda:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 10:39 GMT	4 points
	I should actually make a small apology to my fellow Brits here. I'd originally planned this quiz with the intention of having a button on the first page where you could choose to either take the quiz in ASL or BSL. Unfortunately, as the BSL letters are largely two handed, it just looked like it would be too cramped and not work as well. Technically it is probably better that everyone has the consistency of taking the same quiz but I still feel like I've betrayed people slightly by not allowing them to have the choice.

	toomuchfreetime:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 19:08 GMT	0 points
	Not enough time, arghhhhh!

	chriskotx:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 19:34 GMT	4 points
	I played this 3 times. Once, to get 4/5 of North America..second time to finish South America..and third time to finish all the last three sections. So, either the last three were really really easy OR I learned some sign language. (Thanks!)

	bazmerelda:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 22:43 GMT	2 points
	Would people like more time in general? Obviously it needs to be kept quite tight as with enough time, everyone will eventually be able to figure out all of the answers. Currently about a third of players are getting 100% but I'm sure people would rather not have to play through it three or more times to get to the end. Also, thanks so much for the positive feedback everyone. I've never had a quiz get so many consecutive 5 orbs before and your nice comments have made all the time spent Photoshopping the signs together worthwhile.

	raragigi:	Oct 8th, 2011 at 23:13 GMT	1 point
	Loved this quiz! Please make moore! I would do it myself but dont know how to apply pictures when i create quizzes and even then i would have to have pics suited for the exakt thing i am looking for...

	rjm264:	Oct 9th, 2011 at 05:15 GMT	0 points
	might be helpful to make the timer start before the slideshow for the added challenge, as you can scan through without starting the timer. altogether, great quiz! awesome idea!

	bazmerelda:	Oct 9th, 2011 at 10:57 GMT	1 point
	@raragigi: How to make image quizzes is probably one of the most asked questions on Sporcle. If you click the f.a.q. link at the bottom of the page you can get a detailed description of how to do it. Basically, Sporcle don't have the webspace to be able to host everyone's pictures and videos so they ask that you use external hosting sites like photobucket, imageshack and youtube. When you upload content to any of these sites you are given an 'embed' button which will give you a code that can be copied and pasted into your quiz so that the image appears. @rjm264: There is nothing I can do about when the timer starts I'm afraid. It is built into the site so I can't control it. I could possibly do something to the Flash file that made it go blank after a certain amount of time (in the style of MrChewypoo's Defuse the Bomb quiz - http://www.sporcle.com/games/MrChewypoo/tick_tock_tick_tock) but I don't think it would be fair on people who wanted to take the time to read through instructions etc. It's no different to the daily word ladders really - if you're desperate to get 100% you can figure out all the answers before pressing go.

	Saints09:	Oct 9th, 2011 at 15:09 GMT	2 points
	Wow this has got to be the record for most consecutive 5 ratings. Good job.

	chriskotx:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 04:59 GMT	4 points
	So..Who gave this quiz a 3? ...and why?

	elcropsziuq:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 06:17 GMT	2 points
	Ooo my 'native' language (well technically no. I didn't learn until I was 18); even though I grew up oral- I will always prefer ASL/sign language if I can :) I am looking forward to seeing other country sign alphabets! >signs< 5 globes :)

	rousku:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 11:07 GMT	1 point
	I know the alphabet in the Finnish sign language and it was definitely not much help here. Great quiz though!

	bowsntoys:	Oct 10th, 2011 at 16:53 GMT	1 point
	Love the game; I know basic sign language, but could have used more time. :)

	robhop:	Oct 11th, 2011 at 14:57 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz. But I could not see the image, even after my web browser to full screen.

	bazmerelda:	Oct 11th, 2011 at 15:35 GMT	1 point
	@robhop: Could you tell me your screen resolution settings so I can test it? The image is about 600x600 so I think it should fit on most monitors unless it has been zoomed. Does it still not fit if you hold Ctrl and press the minus button?

	roguetrader:	Oct 16th, 2011 at 23:36 GMT	1 point
	Maybe add more time if you want people to take this as a cryptogram? I kind of know the sign language alphabet and still only had 29 seconds to spare.

	raragigi:	Feb 25th, 2012 at 00:56 GMT	1 point
	Great! Do more of these!

	ArtFever:	May 8th, 2012 at 22:58 GMT	1 point
	I didn't even know there were different sign languages (although now when I think about it, it's pretty obvious). The one I learned (Swedish) can be seen here, if anyone wants to compare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TGvDI9hoPk

	bazmerelda:	May 9th, 2012 at 12:40 GMT	2 points
	@ArtFever: An interesting thing I learned whilst making this is that American Sign Language is quite similar to French Sign Language but completely different to British Sign Language. So a deaf American can understand a deaf French person quite well, but they wouldn't understand anything signed by a deaf English person.