edit: why are my slash-shrugs not working all of a sudden?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, why did that one work?
Anyway, I know Brazilian Portuguese, which has only minor variations from Portugal Portuguese, so I’m sure it’s not that either. It sounds like Italian spoken with a very strange accent.
Again, I say:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, I think I figured it out - do these slash commands need to be on a line by themselves to work?
Hmm… After listening to #4 several times again, I’m not so sure it isn’t Portuguese Portuguese (as opposed to Brazilian, which I’m certain it isn’t), just in an accent I’ve never heard before.
So - I’m going to revise my answer and make an official guess without all the disqualifying hedging:
Welsh
Malay
Hindi
Esperanto!(?!)
Australian Aboriginal
Rationale:
because it just sounds to me like it’s got all consonants and no vowels - the costume made me think Scandinavia, but the language sounds Welsh.
I don’t know why - purely a guess. If it’s right, I’ll be stunned.
It’s the quality of the recording that sounds Hindi to me, not that I necessarily recognize the language as such… I used to be a sound man, used to do gigs for the Indian community, and they like their sound to be slightly overdriven and distorted (drives sound people crazy). Plus, it just looks and sounds like an old Bollywood movie.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ I’m actually starting to think maybe it’s Esperanto, although I’ve no idea what Esperanto sounds like, just that I seem to remember that it shares some roots with Spanish.
They look like Australian Aboriginals, so I’m guessing that’s what one would call the language they’re speaking.
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edit: the more I think about it, I’m just about certain 4 isn’t any form of Portuguese, so I’m editing my guess to Esperanto.
@DennisG2014 I’d take your guesses and run with my own theories (Tagalog was my guess for 2, unresearched, and Portuguese was my thought on 4 despite your better knowledge than my zero knowledge of the subject).
But there are 300+ Australian Aboriginal languages so my chances there are pretty low.
@DennisG2014 I like the guess of Esperanto. My original take was that guy was actually from the U.K., but speaking a language (Italian?) other than his native one.
Esperanto virtually guarantees that wherever he is from, that isn’t his native tongue.
One more thing…
The one thing I love about as much as trivia is trying to guess languages and/or accents.
So, thank you @JasonToon for entertaining my brain this morning.
lol - Ok, one last thing - the more I think about it, the more I think “of course a clever quiz-master would include Esperanto in a quiz about languages”…
So now, the one that took me the longest to arrive at, and haven’t the slightest idea what it sounds like, is the one I’m most certain of.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is why I’m good at Trivia and multiple-choice questions… I can usually puzzle out an answer by some kind of intuitive process of elimination, even when I really have no idea.
Hey - feel free to use any of my answers you think are right and add your own guesses…
I doubt I got all 5, and if I can help someone else win, that’s better than no one winning!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014 I looked up Esperanto videos because I was curious- they sound pretty much like Spanish to me. (I took French back in the day.) This one sounds more northern Europe to me. But I’m probably wrong.
On the fun side I found this:
Nice going, everybody! I’ll say this… some of the guesses are VERY close, but nobody’s quite got all 5 yet. A little bit of Google detective work could help… there’s a prominent politician in one of the clips, and a festival-winning independent film in another…
Well, ok, you encouraged Googling so, if I can submit yet another go at this, having now cheated (in my mind, if not the quiz-master’s)…
Welsh
Indonesian (they also speak Malay in Indonesia!)
Hindi
Esperanto
Yolŋu Matha
I feel so cheap now.
BTW - it’s been bugging me for the last 24 hours how the hell I came up with ‘Malay’.
I realized that I was basing it on the man’s appearance.
However, I have no idea what Malaysian people look like. He looked Southeast Asian to me and that country just popped into my head - wouldn’t have even bet money that Malaysia was in S.E. Asia.
Ultimately, (now that I’ve learned that the man is the President of Indonesia) I was wrong, but I could not have been closer to being right while still being wrong - Malaysia is right next door to Indonesia and Malay (I’ve now learned) is also an official language of Indonesia.
This is not to toot my own horn, but to illustrate this phenomena I’ve experienced my whole life that fascinates and bewilders me…
I have never played a trivia game without at least once or twice coming up with an answer that makes me and/or the people I’m playing with say, “how the hell do you know that?” To which my answer is always, “I have no idea, the answer was just there.”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, often times I’m like, “I shouldn’t know this; I know nothing about this topic, but when I heard the question, the answer just popped into my head.”
My best theory is that my brain hears/sees these little tidbits of trivia - on TV, on a web page, magazine article, etc., and even though I’m not consciously ‘recording’ the information, my brain absorbs it and files it away somewhere in the back along with some associations - an image, a word, a name, etc.
Then all I need are one of those associated tidbits as a clue and my brain connects the dots.
It’s eerie when it happens. Like, I’ve totally freaked myself out on some occasions… Come up with an answer that to me just feels like a completely random guess - like free association, it’s just the first thing that popped into my head. When it turns out to be right, I’m just as stunned as the people playing with me. Like, “I have no idea where that answer came from, it was just there!”
Anyway, sorry to go on a rant about my own brain - mornings are boring here…
@DennisG2014 I’m exactly the same! “How did you know that?” “I have no idea…” Even to the extent that sometimes I doubt the first answer that pops into my head, which then turns out to be right.
@DennisG2014@JasonToon Triplets, although I have good days and bad ones. Sometimes it seems like anything and everything pops up like that. Other days I know the answer but can’t get it or it pops in several hours later. Sometimes I can picture the answer or person but can’t find the word to express it on the bad days. “You know. The thing you sit on, the brown wood thing.” It can be so frustrating!
Yesterday, @DrWorm won top billing by naming all five of our “Bills”:
Utter guesses:
@DennisG2014
/giphy udder guesses
@DennisG2014 Do you know Portuguese?
@sammydog01 Um pouquinho. /shrug
edit: why are my slash-shrugs not working all of a sudden?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, why did that one work?
Anyway, I know Brazilian Portuguese, which has only minor variations from Portugal Portuguese, so I’m sure it’s not that either. It sounds like Italian spoken with a very strange accent.
Again, I say:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, I think I figured it out - do these slash commands need to be on a line by themselves to work?
Hmm… After listening to #4 several times again, I’m not so sure it isn’t Portuguese Portuguese (as opposed to Brazilian, which I’m certain it isn’t), just in an accent I’ve never heard before.
So - I’m going to revise my answer and make an official guess without all the disqualifying hedging:
Rationale:
¯_(ツ)/¯¯_(ツ)/¯¯_(ツ)/¯¯_(ツ)/¯¯_(ツ)/¯¯_(ツ)/¯
edit: the more I think about it, I’m just about certain 4 isn’t any form of Portuguese, so I’m editing my guess to Esperanto.
@DennisG2014 I’d take your guesses and run with my own theories (Tagalog was my guess for 2, unresearched, and Portuguese was my thought on 4 despite your better knowledge than my zero knowledge of the subject).
But there are 300+ Australian Aboriginal languages so my chances there are pretty low.
@DennisG2014 I like the guess of Esperanto. My original take was that guy was actually from the U.K., but speaking a language (Italian?) other than his native one.
Esperanto virtually guarantees that wherever he is from, that isn’t his native tongue.
One more thing…
The one thing I love about as much as trivia is trying to guess languages and/or accents.
So, thank you @JasonToon for entertaining my brain this morning.
lol - Ok, one last thing - the more I think about it, the more I think “of course a clever quiz-master would include Esperanto in a quiz about languages”…
So now, the one that took me the longest to arrive at, and haven’t the slightest idea what it sounds like, is the one I’m most certain of.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is why I’m good at Trivia and multiple-choice questions… I can usually puzzle out an answer by some kind of intuitive process of elimination, even when I really have no idea.
/youtube welshie! futurama
Hey - feel free to use any of my answers you think are right and add your own guesses…
I doubt I got all 5, and if I can help someone else win, that’s better than no one winning!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014 I looked up Esperanto videos because I was curious- they sound pretty much like Spanish to me. (I took French back in the day.) This one sounds more northern Europe to me. But I’m probably wrong.
On the fun side I found this:
Nice going, everybody! I’ll say this… some of the guesses are VERY close, but nobody’s quite got all 5 yet. A little bit of Google detective work could help… there’s a prominent politician in one of the clips, and a festival-winning independent film in another…
@JasonToon Wow, there are a lot of independent film festivals.
@kdemo Wait, are you playing “cheese or font?”
@kdemo Awesome!
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
@curtw4 - That game was fun, though I never got much over 50%.
Welsh, Filipino, Hindi, Esperanto, Australian Aboriginal
I really don’t know (obviously, probably) but I know at least one of these is right.
OK, one last clue… Google “southeast asian president” and “aboriginal film” and see if any of the results look familiar…
I found the movie for the last one! I think.
Yolngu
Hey, Singapore has a lady president. Cool.
Check out Indonesia, guys! I think they speak Indonesian there.
Well, ok, you encouraged Googling so, if I can submit yet another go at this, having now cheated (in my mind, if not the quiz-master’s)…
I feel so cheap now.
BTW - it’s been bugging me for the last 24 hours how the hell I came up with ‘Malay’.
I realized that I was basing it on the man’s appearance.
However, I have no idea what Malaysian people look like. He looked Southeast Asian to me and that country just popped into my head - wouldn’t have even bet money that Malaysia was in S.E. Asia.
Ultimately, (now that I’ve learned that the man is the President of Indonesia) I was wrong, but I could not have been closer to being right while still being wrong - Malaysia is right next door to Indonesia and Malay (I’ve now learned) is also an official language of Indonesia.
This is not to toot my own horn, but to illustrate this phenomena I’ve experienced my whole life that fascinates and bewilders me…
I have never played a trivia game without at least once or twice coming up with an answer that makes me and/or the people I’m playing with say, “how the hell do you know that?” To which my answer is always, “I have no idea, the answer was just there.”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, often times I’m like, “I shouldn’t know this; I know nothing about this topic, but when I heard the question, the answer just popped into my head.”
My best theory is that my brain hears/sees these little tidbits of trivia - on TV, on a web page, magazine article, etc., and even though I’m not consciously ‘recording’ the information, my brain absorbs it and files it away somewhere in the back along with some associations - an image, a word, a name, etc.
Then all I need are one of those associated tidbits as a clue and my brain connects the dots.
It’s eerie when it happens. Like, I’ve totally freaked myself out on some occasions… Come up with an answer that to me just feels like a completely random guess - like free association, it’s just the first thing that popped into my head. When it turns out to be right, I’m just as stunned as the people playing with me. Like, “I have no idea where that answer came from, it was just there!”
Anyway, sorry to go on a rant about my own brain - mornings are boring here…
@DennisG2014 I’m exactly the same! “How did you know that?” “I have no idea…” Even to the extent that sometimes I doubt the first answer that pops into my head, which then turns out to be right.
@DennisG2014 @JasonToon Triplets, although I have good days and bad ones. Sometimes it seems like anything and everything pops up like that. Other days I know the answer but can’t get it or it pops in several hours later. Sometimes I can picture the answer or person but can’t find the word to express it on the bad days. “You know. The thing you sit on, the brown wood thing.” It can be so frustrating!
Hindi? A Bollywood movie?
Alert: Catch the shoutout at 2:08!
Sounds like some Benni Lava is needed to make sure it isn’t just English with an accent. What does the Mehtizenry say?