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Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
December 15 2010 21:44 GMT
#21
wtf. i thought you were grinding sc2
Team LiquidPoorUser
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 21:52:03
December 15 2010 21:51 GMT
#22
On December 16 2010 06:35 krndandaman wrote:
just wondering, why did you decide to join the airforce/military in general?
how long will you serve?
and im guessing you'll be doing alot of translating shit? seeing the 'crypt', will you be possibly cracking codes also? sounds cool


im pretty sure the job is just spying on transmissions / translating what u hear, and probably also making reports on it. there might be more to it than that though


oh and i joined just cuz it's hard to get a job and this can get me a good one where i'd have a definite future and make a very nice living


On December 16 2010 06:44 Liquid`Zephyr wrote:
wtf. i thought you were grinding sc2


lol i am bro
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19210 Posts
December 15 2010 22:38 GMT
#23
On December 16 2010 05:07 travis wrote:
Part 2 used the following rules

1.) possessives must come before possessors
2.) possessors must end with an "ee" sound
3.) possessives must end with an "oo" or "aw" sound

and then the phrase might be like

"the boys teacher"

with answers

A.) teacheree boyoo
B.) teacheroo boyee
C.) boyee teacheree
D.) boyoo teacheree

the answer here would be A.

but they might flip the phrase like

"the teacher of the boy"

so u need to understand how the possessive is still the teacher and not the boy despite being on the other side of the phrase

and as the questions went on they got harder
But....the boy is the possessor in both those examples...so the answer is B.

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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-15 22:56:53
December 15 2010 22:43 GMT
#24
On December 16 2010 07:38 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 16 2010 05:07 travis wrote:
Part 2 used the following rules

1.) possessives must come before possessors
2.) possessors must end with an "ee" sound
3.) possessives must end with an "oo" or "aw" sound

and then the phrase might be like

"the boys teacher"

with answers

A.) teacheree boyoo
B.) teacheroo boyee
C.) boyee teacheree
D.) boyoo teacheree

the answer here would be A.

but they might flip the phrase like

"the teacher of the boy"

so u need to understand how the possessive is still the teacher and not the boy despite being on the other side of the phrase

and as the questions went on they got harder
But....the boy is the possessor in both those examples...so the answer is B.



err yeah ur right, i switched my oos and ees
and yeah the possessive was never the boy, but that's what i said -.-

was kinda hard to write all the examples so quickly and not screw up
Enki
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2548 Posts
December 15 2010 23:30 GMT
#25
Congrats!
I still regret ditching the AF while in basic but oh well. I have been considering joining another branch because I still have not found a job here.

I hope the people at your MEPS are more competent then mine were. My group ended up missing our first plane flight, instead of landing in San Antonio at around 6 in the evening, we didn't get there till about 11 at night. 2 hours of sleep the first night there just completely fucked me over.
"Practice, practice, practice. And when you're not practicing you should be practicing. It's the only way to get better. The only way." I run the Smix Fanclub!
zzaaxxsscd
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States626 Posts
December 16 2010 04:10 GMT
#26
wow those tests are pretty bad-ass

I guess the stuff you end up doing can be life-and-death, so they have to -seriously- make sure you have the aptitude for it
rkffhk
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
474 Posts
December 16 2010 06:53 GMT
#27
I for one don't think that those questions were tough at all

then again i speak 11 languages
"Did not realize gold was such an important threshold for people, I guess I honestly take it for granted that if people practice / invest enough time into this game then they would make diamond in no time." ~Caihead
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
December 16 2010 07:18 GMT
#28
On December 16 2010 15:53 rkffhk wrote:
I for one don't think that those questions were tough at all

then again i speak 11 languages


damn dude ur amazing
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
December 16 2010 08:17 GMT
#29
Man I speak 3 languages fluently and i wasn't even sure the difference between a possessor and possessive when reading this lol. Never learned any of them from a book naturally. It was funny cause when most people are like MAN that was hard you usually go oh well that's really not that hard, but i can see how it would be soooo easy to make that hard, and fucking listening to it too? jesus christ what a nightmare

Did they like fill you in on what you were in for going into this test? Like naturally it'd be pretty hard to prepare, but was any of it really a surprise, or did you have to/need to prepare in any way?

I find language stuff pretty cool
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rkffhk
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
474 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-16 16:45:41
December 16 2010 16:44 GMT
#30
On December 16 2010 17:17 Divinek wrote:
Man I speak 3 languages fluently and i wasn't even sure the difference between a possessor and possessive when reading this lol.

You have to worry about that stuff in Japanese and Korean.

In Japanese its の (no) and in Korean its 의 (ui).

example:

[The] boy's teacher

아들의 선생님 ( adeul-ui seonsaengnim )

おとこのせんせい (otoko no sensei)

(maybe there's other words for boy that are more appropriate in those languages than the ones I used, but I just wrote that off the top of my head so GET OFF ME rekrul and mani)
"Did not realize gold was such an important threshold for people, I guess I honestly take it for granted that if people practice / invest enough time into this game then they would make diamond in no time." ~Caihead
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
December 16 2010 17:02 GMT
#31
On December 16 2010 17:17 Divinek wrote:
Man I speak 3 languages fluently and i wasn't even sure the difference between a possessor and possessive when reading this lol. Never learned any of them from a book naturally. It was funny cause when most people are like MAN that was hard you usually go oh well that's really not that hard, but i can see how it would be soooo easy to make that hard, and fucking listening to it too? jesus christ what a nightmare

Did they like fill you in on what you were in for going into this test? Like naturally it'd be pretty hard to prepare, but was any of it really a surprise, or did you have to/need to prepare in any way?

I find language stuff pretty cool


i had an idea about some of it because i did some research online
but u couldn't really prepare much


and yeah, im serious when i tell rkff that speaking 11 languages is impressive, but he is severely underestimating how difficult it is when u can only listen to the answers, and only listen once. especially part 4 of section 3, u really have to be like good will hunting lvl genius to do well at that
rkffhk
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
474 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-16 17:40:13
December 16 2010 17:40 GMT
#32
taking placement tests for college and translator exams are in very similar formats~
"Did not realize gold was such an important threshold for people, I guess I honestly take it for granted that if people practice / invest enough time into this game then they would make diamond in no time." ~Caihead
forgotten0ne
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States951 Posts
April 05 2011 02:49 GMT
#33
As someone that has started pondering the Air Force, I want to bump this and find out any updates from travis.
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Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-05 03:12:18
April 05 2011 03:00 GMT
#34
oh shit, im at the defense language institute right now studying chinese haha. took my dlab back in september and went to fort leonard wood, mo for army basic and now i'm here in california. it's pretty awesome here.

also if u have any questions let me know, i know a little about how the air force does things at dli.
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BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
April 05 2011 07:49 GMT
#35
If he hasn't posted in a while its because your not to use phone or internet in basic. You can only receive/send letters. I ship out for the Air Force April 25th if all goes well. Failed the DLAB.

Good luck Travis.
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
April 05 2011 11:35 GMT
#36
ooo linguistics ^.^ I did this funny contest called the NACLO a few times (N. American Computational Linguistics Olympiad), but it's mostly just some logic puzzles with some sort of linguistic bent. I did have to learn some actual linguistics for the international Olympiad, but still don't really know as much as I should... maybe I'll get a linguistics minor and actually learn some stuff -_-;

Anyway, GL Travis!
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OverZero
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States271 Posts
April 05 2011 12:10 GMT
#37
Congrats man!!! Maybe you can start an american version of Airforce ACE???
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piroko139
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States261 Posts
April 05 2011 14:53 GMT
#38
On April 05 2011 21:10 OverZero wrote:
Congrats man!!! Maybe you can start an american version of Airforce ACE???


If it were that easy, I would have done it already.

The Air Force doesn't really give us much time to do stuff on our own, sadly. They understand that family and recreation are important, but in the end, the military mindframe has, and always will be, service before self.
RoadTrippin
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States48 Posts
April 05 2011 15:25 GMT
#39
Always wondered.. Does a MOS-linguist get paid more than a non-MOS linguist that already gets FLPP pay?
piroko139
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States261 Posts
April 05 2011 16:06 GMT
#40
The enlistment bonus is likely higher than whatever non linguist job they have. The language pay is consistent throughout.
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