Voices

[riche]

Jun 28, 2008 10:43:42 GMT -5 ali said:

They are not identical: 4 and 5 are different!

I can't even get that right They'll be 2 you get right ali.

[frenchfan]

Thanks Zoé
Wow it's really hard.

1- Lilly
2- Will
3- Vera
4- Kat
5- CSI woman
6- Scotty
7- Stillman

[zoé]

If I am not mistaken, you all have the same guesses for guys but not the same one for the girls voices.

So, who's right ?

There are 3! = 6 possibilities for the girls and so there's still a 1/3 chance that none of you got it right

I'll post the solutions this Thursday.

[zoé]

Here it goes :

#	Correct	ali	RichE	Collider	FrenchFan	Identification
1	CSI	Kat	Kat	Lilly	Lilly	0/4
2	Jeffries	Jeffries	Jeffries	Jeffries	Jeffries	4/4
3	Vera	Vera	Vera	Vera	Vera	4/4
4	Kat	Lilly	CSI	CSI	Kat	1/4
5	Lilly	CSI	Lilly	Kat	CSI	1/4
6	Scotty	Scotty	Scotty	Scotty	Scotty	4/4
7	Stillman	Stillman	Stillman	Stillman	Stillman	4/4
Score	xxxx	4/7	5/7	4/7	5/7	xxxx

Congrats to RichE & FrenchFan !!!
RichE, you're getting really good at this, no need for an Australian challenge ;D
The women voices are still hard but you all mastered the men voices. Good job everyone !

All samples come from 5x06 Wunderkind.
My German is even worse than my English, so here are some very very approximate translations:

Jeffries :
What did Michael mean when he said : "".

Vera :

(sometimes, I also have troubles getting what he's saying in English, at least this is consistent !)

Kat :
So, you haven't seen your son for a year, you suddenly show up, and a couple days later, he's dead.

Lilly :
Talking about the picture of the daughter with the shrink :
You don't have any besides this one ? Not from graduation or from a wedding ? That makes wonder... Are you too even speaking to each other ?

Scotty :
What the mother has said was of no big help... Social Care Mom, No dad... No chance ()

Stillman :
With Terrance Carter's social security number, a credit account has been opened shortly after his death.

[ali]

Female voices are very hard in every language!

Thank you zoé!
Have you seen, RichE? You are the best this time (with frenchfan ).

[riche]

Jul 3, 2008 6:31:12 GMT -5 ali said:

Have you seen, RichE? You are the best this time (with frenchfan ).

I know. Unbe-freakin'-lievable!

Thanks zoé

[Collider]

Heh. I knew the women would be my undoing... ...so to speak.

Congrats to frenchfan and to RichE; seems like the lameness streak has passed hands.

[ali]

Italian, French, German...it's Spanish time.

1_1spa.mp3 - 0.05MB
2_2spa.mp3 - 0.05MB
3_3spa.mp3 - 0.04MB
4_4spa.mp3 - 0.09MB
5_5spa.mp3 - 0.04MB
6_6spa.mp3 - 0.06MB
7_7spa.mp3 - 0.04MB

The third woman is Frannie.

[Collider]

Yay, new game!! Thanks, ali!!

Also, yay on a third person who's actually part of our fandom! I might stand a chance this time! (yeah, 'cause that's what keeps throwing me... ).

1. Will.
2. Scotty.
3. Nick.
5. Stillman.

For some reason, #6 is refusing to work for me at the moment, so I'll refrain from guessing the ladies until that one co-operates and I have all three for comparison...

...as if it'll help.

[zoé]

I amm hesitating concerning the men's voices now that I saw Collider's guesses. And maybe I'd better write the opposite of what I identify for the women, since those are always confusing...

Anyway here are my guesses :

1- Stillman
2- Scotty
3- Vera
4- Lilly
5- Jeffries
6- Kat
7- Frannie

Thanks for the challenge, ali

[riche]

Thanks for the new challenge ali.

I haven't had a chance to study the files yet but I've posted a copy all zipped up on my website, if that is any help to anyone:

www.kathryn-morris.co.uk/misc/ali_voices_spanish.zip

[riche]

Ali's Spanish challenge.

I'm even more clueless than usual (who knew that was possible ). For what it's worth here are my guesses:

1 - Nick
2 - Will
3 - Scotty
4 - Frannie
5 - John
6 - Lilly
7 - Kat


Another guess below

[frenchfan]

Thanks ali.
Hard as always.

1 - Will
2 - Scotty
3 - Vera
4 - Lilly
5 - Stillman
6 - Kat
7 - Frannie

[ali]

I'm very busy in these days: I will post the correct answers tomorrow or Tuesday.

To RichE: I really do suggest that you change something in your guesses!

[riche]

Jul 20, 2008 7:09:01 GMT -5 ali said:

To RichE: I really do suggest that you change something in your guesses!

O-oh!

I take that to mean I'm currently on nil points So if anyone else has any guesses that match mine you'd better reconsider, quick.

OK, forget an actual attempt at accuracy. This is pure random guess work:

1 - Will
2 - Nick
3 - John
4 - Lilly
5 - Scotty
6 - Kat
7 - Frannie

[ali]

Hola!

1_John
2_Scotty
3_Nick
4_Lilly
5_Will
6_Kat
7_Frannie

---

RichE: 3/7 (~40%)
Collider: 2/4 (50%)
frenchfan: 5/7 (~70%)
And the winner is...
zoé: 7/7 (100%)


to everybody!

[Collider]

Technically speaking, I'd say RichE probably scored higher than me, since getting three right is better than getting two right, and I did only guess ~half of them. Still, it amuses me no end that my score only looks even vaguely passable when I solely guess at the boys.

Congrats to zoe, though!! Wow!!

[riche]

Thanks ali,

I can't believe that by complete guess work, and by that I mean taking my original all wrong guesses (thanks ali ) and randomly re-ordering them, I got all the women correct

I clearly suck at this, thereby perpetuating the stereotype of the English being very bad with foreign languages

[Gina]

It's okay, I would be bad at this, too.