Rice

Post by **Teaos** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:49 am

Very interesting idea for a website. It was on the local news tonight.

For every word you get right 10 grains of rice get sent to africa to feed the hungry.

So far I've donated almost 3000 grains.

My vocal score sites on average about 33 and the most I've had it is 39 before it dropped again.

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:30 pm

That's strange - how does it work?
I mean how are they able to get the rice by you just choosing the correct words?

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:39 pm

It's an interesting concept. We've been sending this around at school. I average 38, can't get above 39 though. I average about 8 right for every 1 wrong.

Post by **Teaos** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:39 pm

Everytime you get a word right the page refreshs with a new word and at the bottom are three sponsors. There are about 30 sponsors at the moment. Evertime their logo pops up they ow the company like 1 cent or how ever much 10 grains of rice are. The company Freerice then fowards the sponsorship money onto the UN rice programme.

I would guess a company would sponsor them for like 10,000 dollars and their logo will pop up 100,000 times or something like that.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:42 pm

Go figure. I tried it now, got up to 41, but dropped back down to 39

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:49 pm

People need to move to where the food is, not have the food moved to where people are.

Post by **Teaos** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:50 pm

I'm sitting on average 35 about now and hit 40 before I dove right down to 30

I've only got in the 20's once though so I dont feel to dumb. Up to about 5000 grains now.

DarkOmen · Post by **DarkOmen** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:14 pm

thats addicting...

but i need to get back to work

I got to 41, ill try some more later.

Post by **Mikey** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:26 pm

I tried it once, got up to level 44/380 grains, before my ISP took a crap.

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:01 pm

I like this a lot. Fairly addicting and, as a writer, it aids me.

Post by **Mikey** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:09 pm

I don't know if it helped me in the sense that a thesaurus would, but it sure seems to justify those three years of Latin I took!

Eosphoros · Post by **Eosphoros** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:13 pm

It's a great site. A good friend of mine (hello Kristina

) told me about it, and I've had a lot of fun with it.

@Mikey> I also had Latin in high school, in what you from the US and UK would call grades 9 and 10. I also have a Latin course at University. I wasn't very good at it back then (passive conjunctive this, active indicative that... I had better things to do) but it sure helped me now.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:42 pm

Unfortunately, Latin is omitted from most public schooling over here; and the religious schools teach Ecclesiastical Latin if any at all, which is debased from classical Latin in grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. I was fortunate though in having it available to me, and it sure helped on my SAT's, which are our standardixed college entrance exams.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:52 pm

Eosphoros wrote:It's a great site. A good friend of mine (hello Kristina ) told me about it, and I've had a lot of fun with it.

@Mikey> I also had Latin in high school, in what you from the US and UK would call grades 9 and 10.

We actually have 'years' over here, and they're different to the US grades

And I have never done any latin. I did a little bit of German (was very poor at it) and that was it. I didn't do very well on this, anyway

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:40 pm

I had three years of Latin in high school. No clue if it was classical or what.

I translated the 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen' speech from Caesar into Latin for extra credit, IIRC.