Artificial Language

To begin with, you will be given three “nonsense” words and their English word meanings. The question(s) that take after will request that you turn around the procedure and make an interpretation of an English word into the artificial language.

Artificial language problems are as follows: standard words from the English are given and some translations of these words is to be done in an artificial language. The final part of the solution to an artificial language question requires to predict how an another word will look like in artificial language.

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Tips for solving Artificial Language

Tip #1: Break the given words in the artificial language as well as English into smaller parts to find their translations

Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language.

(I)          migenlasan means cupboard   

(II)         lasanpoen means boardwalk

(III)        cuopdansa means pullman

Which word could mean "walkway“ ?

A. Poenmigen       B. cuopeisel       C. lasandansa  D. poenforc

Solution:

‘Board’ is common between cupboard and boardwalk. Since ‘lasan’ is common between migenlasan and lasanpoen, we can conclude that ‘lasan’ implies ‘board’ and ‘poen’ implies ‘walk’. Both A and D start with ‘poen’ but ‘migen’ means cup and therefore A can be rejected. Thus, the correct answer is poenforc, i.e., D.

Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language.

(I)          apatose means first base

(II)         epatose means second base

(III)        lartabuk means ballpark

Which of the following words could mean “baseball” ?

A.  buklarta   B. oseepta     C. bukose      D. oselarta  

Solution:

The word for ‘base’ could be ‘patose’ or ‘atose’ or ‘tose’ or ‘ose’ etc. From the options, since ‘ose’ is common across options B, C and D, we can conclude that the translation for ‘base’ is ‘ose’. The words in both the artificial language and English appear in the same order. Thus, option C can be eliminated. Among B and D, only D has the phrase ‘larta’ from lartabuk which corresponds to ‘ball’. So, the correct option is D.

Tip #2: Eliminate options with (a) incorrect translations and/ or (b) incorrect order of appearance of the words

Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language.

(I)          agnoscrenia means poisonous spider  

(II)         delanocreania means poisonous snake

(III)        agnosdeery means brown spider.

Which word could mean ‘black widow spider’?

A. deeryclostagnos   B. agnosdelano  C. agnosvitriblunin    D. trymuttiagnos

Solution:

It is evident that in the artificial language, nouns appear first and then the adjectives, with the phrase ‘agnos’ meaning spider. Thus, it should appear first. This eliminates options A and D. Now, ‘delano’ means snake, so this eliminates option B. Hence, the answer is C.

Question: Here are some words translated from an artificial language.

(I)          jalkamofti means happy birthday   

(II)         moftihoze means birthday party

(III)        mentogunn means goodness.

Which of the following could mean ‘happiness’?

A.  jalkagunn    B. mentohoze    C. moftihoze  D. Hozemento

Solution:

In the artificial language, the phrase ‘mufti’ is common between ‘happy birthday’ and ‘birthday party’ and therefore, it refers to ‘birthday’. Hence, ‘jalka’ means happy. There is only one option with this phrase. So the correct answer is A.

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