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		raverbashing on Jan 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Proble... It's not hard, but some passing knowledge of the languages definitely helps (like the Aragonese table is almost trivial for people who know a Romance language), but especially how linguistic transformations happen

yccs27 on Jan 21, 2022 [–]

Definitely. OTOH, the Japanese braille question was more of a pattern recognition puzzle.

q3k on Jan 21, 2022 | [–]

Some surface-level knowledge about Japanese writing systems (ie. the fact that Katakana/Hiragana are fairly regular consonant+vowel syllabries) helps a lot.

alisonkisk on Jan 21, 2022 | | [–]

The critical part is knowing that haiku is ha-i-ku, not hai-ku.

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