[Fictionary] Lingule repeat?

[Pierre Abbat]

On Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:18:18 PM EDT Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:
> Today's word (bangkai) was definitely a repeat. It was one of the first
> words that showed up when I started playing Lingule, and I remember
> because I know that word as part of the name of the corpse flower
> (Amorphophallus titanum), which a friend of mine (who passed away last
> year) had raised several specimens of. The first time one of his bloomed
> (in the UConn greenhouse), they had T-shirts printed up that included
> the various names of the plant, one of which is Bunga bangkai. So I knew
> who used that word, but I failed to get it the first time around, and I
> did get it today, but it took me six guesses, bouncing around the region
> until I hit the right language.

I don't remember seeing it before in Lingule. I guessed Indonesian, which is 
in the right language family branch (Malayo-Sumbawan) but the wrong part of 
the world, I looked up Malayo-Sumbawan in Wikipedia and guessed Western Cham, 
then based on the arrow guessed Malay, which is correct. I looked it up and 
the word is equally good Indonesian and Malay. The words that are different 
between these two tend to be borrowed from different other languages.

I once guessed Icelandic for the Faroese word "orðabók" (dictionary), which 
was marked correct. Why is Indonesian marked wrong for an identical Malay 
word?

Do you have enough defs for the konzo ballot?

Pierre
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