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Author Topic: Competiton for the weirdest and hardest-to-type flag  (Read 34474 times)

JusTiCe8

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Re: Competiton for the weirdest and hardest-to-type flag
« Reply #30 on: July 09, 2006, 07:14:45 PM »

The best flag could be a weird sequence for which each character need 3 keys, created with in mind to maximise keys changes between each chars and, of course, no copy/paste possible :P  :]


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Re: Competiton for the weirdest and hardest-to-type flag
« Reply #31 on: February 18, 2007, 01:55:30 AM »

Any actual words in the flag should be transcribed using IPA (the linguists' phonetic alphabet). This will result in several awesome things:

1. Users speaking slowly and carefully out loud at their computer screens to figure out the phonetic transcription of words as they type.
2. Users with different accents coming up with different answers.
3. The need for users to download IPA alphabets before using amule.
4. Most IPA characters require multi-key entry.
5. Things that occur in English that most people have no idea about, like alveolar flaps and aspirated consonants.
6. Users coming up with different answers depending on where each word is in the flag, for repeated words. (Most people pronounce words differently depending where they are in a sentence or an utterance, which makes a phonological difference as far as IPA is concerned, if not a meaning difference.)

May I also suggest that the correct answer correspond to the pronunciation of someone speaking BRITISH English with a Swahilian accent, and that there be a time-limit for entry of about 30 seconds. Oh, also, agreed, no copy/pasting, that's cheating.
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Re: Competiton for the weirdest and hardest-to-type flag
« Reply #32 on: February 23, 2007, 05:20:47 PM »

Your thoughts are truly evil. Copy and Paste is impossible as the flag is described in another 'language' and figuring out the language (how the heck sounds br. English with swahilian accent?) will be more fun than pacman ever was.

I bet you're spending a lot of time hanging around with evil guys. ;)
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Re: Competiton for the weirdest and hardest-to-type flag
« Reply #33 on: February 23, 2007, 09:27:39 PM »

Your thoughts are truly evil. Copy and Paste is impossible as the flag is described in another 'language' and figuring out the language (how the heck sounds br. English with swahilian accent?) will be more fun than pacman ever was.

I bet you're spending a lot of time hanging around with evil guys. ;)

Oh, I bet she was that way before hanging around evil guys ;)
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