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Hunting4Treasure
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 		Ooh! I just had another thought! No matter what country you're in, what about...
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... the first *computer* language?

ENIAC- claimed to be the first computer language. The other contestant for "first" is PLANKALKUL. Designed by J. Prosper Eckert and John Mauchly between 1943-45.

BASIC- language originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960's.


Edited to add this, which seems to fit perfectly! Wink
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BABEL-
1) a functional logic language whose operational semantics is based on lazy narrowing and provides some higher order features.
2) a subset of ALGOL 60 with many ALGOL W extensions.
3) higher-order functional plus first-order logic language.

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Hunting4Treasure
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 		Also, working from SpinneNetz's list, taking the first letter of the *country*, instead of the language, yields:
AAABEEEEGGIIJJKLLMNNORSSSUUU
For what it's worth, the word LANGUAGE is in there. Confused
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ahdok
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Hunting4Treasure wrote:
Ooh! I just had another thought! No matter what country you're in, what about...
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... the first *computer* language?

ENIAC- claimed to be the first computer language. The other contestant for "first" is PLANKALKUL. Designed by J. Prosper Eckert and John Mauchly between 1943-45.

BASIC- language originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960's.


well, to counter that...

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Music is a universal language. Doesn't work as a solution though


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Magma
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So is love, I hear Smile

Anyway, I tried:

International Sign Language

To no avail.


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SilentlyBroken
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 		Magma: that was an idea of mine. Although I was thinking more just

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sign language, as they are all different, but vaguely the same. There is no international sign language


I ought to know Wink

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Magma
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 		Ah. I was just going by this:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Sign

Tried "International Sign" and "Gestuno" as well, by the way. Neither worked.


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Magma wrote:
Ah. I was just going by this:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Sign

Tried "International Sign" and "Gestuno" as well, by the way. Neither worked.


hee Very Happy That link lead me to the deaflympics wiki Very Happy Totally off-topic, but I never knew that had a wiki.

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Magma
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 		Yeah, this game's good for "I didn't know that" tangents.

Anyway, tried and failed:
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M
Ma
Mama


I guess I got a few more to get through...

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norman182
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 		i have tried with no luck
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mama
indo-european
germanic
maths
dialect
vernacular


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Lilian
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 		thinking on the lines of communication i thought of cave paintings
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painting
but alas incorrect Sad
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Rifflesby
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 		I don't think it's anything as general as that. If that were the case, why have we only been given these particular countries? Why not include Australia, where the Aboriginies have painted since time immemorial?

It seems to me, the answer must be either something specific to this set of countries, or something that can be formed from individual attributes from these countries (like the anagrams people were working with earlier).

Unfortunately, I haven't yet come up with any reasonable suggestions that haven't already been thought of. :/


edit: Though if it helps, I've just noticed that while the continental US and Alaska are shown on the map, I see no sign of Hawaii.

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Lilian
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 		yes i thought after i posted that would be the same for music & and alot more Confused
"edit" and there's Portugal on there
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Lilian
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 		There are to many countries missing for it to be a certain
"mother tongue " ie nostratic ect ive been trying to think of a new thread
such as foodstuff, drink, colours of flags but can't seem to get somthing that links them all but i will keep trying Bang Head
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UKver2.0
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...and there's Portugal on there


What did you mean by this? Cause Portugal isn't on there. Confused

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Lilian
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 		sorry not on there is what i meant to say should read my posts more carefully Embarassed
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