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blanca

Posts: 58
Joined: Mar. 21 2007
From: The Netherlands

rice donation through internet

This is very off topic, but I just found this on the internet and I think it's a great initiative.
For each word you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice to help end world hunger. Maybe not so much, but the more people play the 'game', the more rice they donate.
And ofcourse you can also practice your knowledge of English (which isn't quite unnecessary in my case).

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

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Arash

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Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)

RE: rice donation through internet (in reply to blanca)

Thanks! Great idea.
I also introduced this page to 2 other forums which i visit.

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Kate

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Joined: Jul. 8 2003
From: Living in Granada, Andalucía

RE: rice donation through internet (in reply to blanca)

Great idea, good word game too, tough at times even if you speak good english. I clocked up about 1,000 before I realised they meant grains. Guess that's about half a bowl of rice

never having counted how many grains there is in a bowl !!! Still very little counts.

Kate

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 31 2007 3:14:13

Kate

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From: Living in Granada, Andalucía

RE: rice donation through internet (in reply to blanca)

Admin I think we have a glitch

I just noted the date of this post and panicked, it cant be the 31st already. Wow I was nearly 24 hours early for the fireworks.

Kate

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 31 2007 3:16:05

Pimientito

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Joined: Jul. 30 2007
From: Marbella

RE: rice donation through internet (in reply to Kate)

Oh no...I've lost a day...Happy new year everyone!!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 31 2007 4:06:12

blanca

Posts: 58
Joined: Mar. 21 2007
From: The Netherlands

RE: rice donation through internet (in reply to Arash)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Arash
I also introduced this page to 2 other forums which i visit.

Great!!!

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Escribano

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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy

RE: rice donation through internet (in reply to Kate)

It's a known bug in the software as the database is in another time zone and the software cannot deal with it so we are stuck for now

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 31 2007 5:21:17

HemeolaMan

Posts: 1514
Joined: Jul. 13 2007
From: Chicago

RE: rice donation through internet (in reply to blanca)

yeah, some of these definitions and synonyms are wrong

for example: lignite does not mean coal. lignite is a type of coal. by that mark bituminous and anthracite should also define coal. but they do not mean coal. they describe the type of coal.

whoever put this thing together obviously didnt check things thru very thoroughly

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