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Spoken in New Guinea?
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shimobaatar wrote:Is it spoken on an Oceanian island?
Yes.
Zythros Jubi wrote:Spoken in New Guinea?
No.
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Is it spoken in Micronesia?
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Is it spoken in the Solomons?
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Frislander wrote:Is it spoken in the Solomons?
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shimobaatar wrote:Is it spoken in Micronesia?
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Is it spoken in the Moluccas?
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Frislander wrote:Is it spoken in the Moluccas?
No.
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Vanuatu?
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Frislander wrote:Vanuatu?
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North of 16°40’ S?
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I don't know.
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Is it spoken on Espiritu Santo?
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Turkish!! according to Google Translate.... [:D]
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OliveAnne wrote: 11 Dec 2017 13:40 Turkish!! according to Google Translate.... [:D]
Sorry, but are you joking? It's hard to tell online.

If you're not:
Spoiler:
1. Using Google Translate is against the rules of the game.
2. It looks nothing like Turkish.
3. opipik has confirmed that it's spoken on Vanuatu.
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shimobaatar wrote: 04 Dec 2017 22:06 Is it spoken on Espiritu Santo?
No.
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Is it spoken on Malakula?
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shimobaatar wrote: 11 Dec 2017 17:45
OliveAnne wrote: 11 Dec 2017 13:40 Turkish!! according to Google Translate.... [:D]
Sorry, but are you joking? It's hard to tell online.

If you're not:
Spoiler:
1. Using Google Translate is against the rules of the game.
2. It looks nothing like Turkish.
3. opipik has confirmed that it's spoken on Vanuatu.
Oh...sorry for that, I didn't read the rule before playing the game, I thought Google Translate is allowed, and I also didn't read opipik's comment above as well. Sorry I was too fast [:S] [:S]
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OliveAnne wrote: 15 Dec 2017 09:15Oh...sorry for that, I didn't read the rule before playing the game, I thought Google Translate is allowed, and I also didn't read opipik's comment above as well. Sorry I was too fast [:S] [:S]
Well It's kind of a trivial rule really because nobody's going to post a language if it's so commonly known that you can Google Translate it, it's just not obscure enough.
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Frislander wrote: 15 Dec 2017 15:45
OliveAnne wrote: 15 Dec 2017 09:15Oh...sorry for that, I didn't read the rule before playing the game, I thought Google Translate is allowed, and I also didn't read opipik's comment above as well. Sorry I was too fast [:S] [:S]
Well It's kind of a trivial rule really because nobody's going to post a language if it's so commonly known that you can Google Translate it, it's just not obscure enough.
Well I said I was too fast and didn't really think. But if nobody's going to post a language that Google Translate can recognize, then using GT doesn't help anyway, why is it a rule for not to use?
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It's fine to not know the rules at the start, since the thread was started by a now inactive user, meaning we can't add the rules to the OP.

I should have phrased the rule I cited better. The rule is against looking up the text or a portion of it using a search engine, including searching the text on Google or putting it through Google Translate. I don't know if it still does this, but I remember at least a few years ago, Google Translate could still identify languages that it wasn't yet able to translate to or from. Frislander's right, though. Most of the languages people post in this thread are probably too obscure to be identified like that. The game would be too easy if people were allowed to just look up the text. (We had problems in the past with a user guessing correctly right away every round because they just copied and pasted the text into Google… although they wouldn't admit it.)

And yeah, it's always good to read what other people have already guessed.
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