Re: unfamiliar language quiz
- From: " alan" <in_flagrante@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:43:33 -0700
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P.S. --- you're probably already aware if this, but you should only have one operable antivirus prorram on your system at a time. If, for example, you've got Norton, you'll actually have to get rid of it before another AV program will work, as Norton's "disable" feature only disables *some* of Norton; most of Norton will actually still be running...
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"Ray O'Hara" <raymond-ohara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messageHow odd. I was able to get there successfully (and took the test --
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"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For variety, some may like to try this. The task is to decide which
word in each of ten pairs in a language I certainly don't know,
even if Rey does, is the name of a bird. See:
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/11/science/20090811-NAMING-QUIZ.html>
Results achieved by another group were markedly different from the
scores from the original test. I'm not sure why, but it's an
interesting question.
--
Mike.
Do odd names of animals native to non-English speaking regions
really count as English words?
I couldn't link to any quiz.
All I could find was this:
Published: August 11, 2009
Science Quiz: Naming Nature
In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version
of flash player [here]. .
Translations and audio by Brent Berlin of the University of Georgia;
Produced by Thomas Lin/The New York Times
Has anyone else gotten this message? (Don't click on the link
[here]. It leads to a phony Adobe downloading site which pretends to
install the flash player, so I munged it)
I couldn't get to the site.
Pat
9/10) in both Internet Explorer and in Firefox. I already had Flash
Player installed, though. Perhaps you should try installing Flash
Player from the regular adobe site
(http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/) and trying it again --- the
adobe link you went to may have just been a bad link ...
About a week ago I downloaded something that I got an alert for on my desktop.
All appeared to go very well, but then a day or so later, I got some facebook messages in my inbox, and all three of them had links called "Cool Video". Well, harsh experience...I couldn't get into facebook. Instead, I got to a page that insisted I download Flash Player, and I spent half an entire day cleaning out my temp files, cookies, restarting, etc. I finally got into Facebook, and found that my system sent out 12 messages of the Cool Video variety. So, I spent another half day warning all those relatives and "friends" not to open Cool Video.
After today's exerience with another link, I see that I haven't gotten rid of that Flash Attack, but it is very much more subtle in its maneuverings.
Warning to all...if by some chance my posting includes a link to a Cool video, or any other link, please don't try the links in my post.
Meanwhile, I am off to download yet another anti-virus program.
Yikes! good luck . . .
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