What Type of Language Am I?
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This game enables you to identify what language is used in the following academic texts
Topics of this game:
- In prolonged space flight, besides the obvious hazards of meteors, rocky debris and radiation, astronauts will have to deal with muscle atrophy brought on by weightlessness; therefore, when they return to Earth, they face a protracted period of weight-training to rebuild their strength.
- The competitive civil-service system is designed to give candidates fair and equal treatment and to ensure that federal applicants are hired based on objective criteria. Hiring has to be based solely on a candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities, and not on external factors such as race, religion, sex, and so on.
- The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's remarkable musical talent was apparent even before most children can sing a simple nursery rhyme.Wolfgang's older sister Maria Anna was learning the clavier, an early keyboard instrument, when her three-year-old brother took an interest in playing.
- The coast of the state of Maine is one of the most irregular in the world. A straight line running from the southernmost coastal city to the northernmost coastal city would measure about 225 miles. If you followed the coastline between these points, you would travel more than ten times as far.
- A garden in the shape of a rectangle is surrounded by a walkway of uniform width. The dimensions of the garden only are 35 by 24. The area of the garden and the walkway together is 1,530 square feet.
- Firefighters should be aware of the conditions that indicate the possibility for a backdraft to occur. When there is lack of oxygen during a fire, the smoke becomes filled with carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide and turns dense gray or black.
- Easy credit policies allowed consumers to borrow money and accumulate debt. Investors also wildly speculated on the stock market, often borrowing money on credit to buy shares of a company. Stocks increased beyond their worth, but investors were willing to pay inflated prices because they believed stocks would continue to rise.
- The equatorial region is the warmest part of the earth because it receives the most direct and therefore, strongest solar radiation. The plane in which the earth revolves around the sub is called the ecliptic. Earth's axis is inclined 23 1/3 degrees with respect to the ecliptic.
- She was one of those pretty, charming women who are born, as if by an error of Fate, into a petty's official's family. She had no dowry, no hopes, nor the slightest chance of being loved and married by a rich man - so she slipped into marriage with a minor civil servant.
- A metaphor is a poetic device that deals with comparison. It compares similar qualities of two dissimilar objects. With a simple metaphor, one object becomes the other; Love is a rose. Although this does not sound like a particularly rich image, a metaphor can communicate so much about a particular image that poets use.
