From now on this thread is dedicated to discussion on TAC 2010, there is a new thread for generalised TAC discussion but don't take it too seriously. Nonetheless, next year we won't use this thread any more so anything you want considered for next year or the year after put in the TOTAL ANNIHILATION CHALLENGE INTRODUCTION thread. thankyou.GENERAL TAC INFOAs some of you may know (and I recently learned) HTLAL has an annual total annihilation challenge whereby forumites sign up and have exactly one year to learn whichever languages they wish (preferably two or more). Contestants keep logs and at the end of the year, the person who has acheived the most, or overcome the most or hardest boundaries, but not necessarily the person who learns to speak all their chosen languages to the highest level, wins. The victory is only nominal of course but the competitive atmosphere helps keep people on track, since one year is a long commitment to keep.
Obviously we could all go to HTLAL and do the challenge there, but since I don't like that place anymore and many people here don't have accounts over there, I was thinking we could start our own TAC.
I know it's short notice but if we get at least half a dozen willing participants (you can do the challenge simultaniously here and there) settled and sorted by new year's, we could run the contest from 2010/01/01 00:00:00 to 2010/12/31 24:00:00 giving us one callendar year (or until 2011/01/01 6:10:48 for one solar year).
The idea is simply to set yourself some goals and go for it for one year, tracking your progress as you go. It doesn't matter what you already know, what you acheive or how you acheive it, the important thing is that it keeps you motivated for a year (which for the langwhores among us would be unprecedented) by the end of which you should see some decent results.
TAC 2010 Participants listEDIT: using Nequitan's/Nendur's/my lists cos i'm lazy
List of languages by number of participants:
[flag]fi[/flag] Finnish 11
[flag]de[/flag] German 11
[flag]ja[/flag] Japanese 11
[flag]es[/flag] Spanish 10
[flag]nl[/flag] Dutch 9
[flag]is[/flag] Icelandic 7
[flag]zh[/flag] Mandarin 7
[flag]fa[/flag] Persian 7
[flag]pt[/flag] Portuguese 6
[flag]fr[/flag] French 5
[flag]sv[/flag] Swedish 5
[flag]ar[/flag] Arabic 4
[flag]he[/flag] Hebrew 4
[flag]hi[/flag] Hindi 4
[flag]ru[/flag] Russian 4
[flag]ko[/flag] Korean 4
[flag]ga[/flag] Irish 3
[flag]la[/flag] Latin 3
[flag]no[/flag] Norwegian 3
[flag]el[/flag] Modern Greek 3
[flag]ain[/flag] Ainu 2
[flag]grc[/flag] Ancient Greek 2
[flag]en[/flag] English 2
[flag]eo[/flag] Esperanto 2
[flag]et[/flag] Estonian 2
[flag]it[/flag] Italian 2
[flag]mi[/flag] Maori 2
[flag]sr[/flag] Serbian 2
[flag]tr[/flag] Turkish 2
[flag]af[/flag] Afrikaans 1
[flag]hy[/flag] Armenian 1
[flag]bn[/flag] Bengali 1
[flag]bg[/flag] Bulgarian 1
[flag]ca[/flag] Catalan 1
[flag]noflag[/flag] Classical Maya 1
[flag]cs[/flag] Czech 1
[flag]da[/flag] Danish 1
[flag]fr[/flag] French - Colloquial 1
[flag]noflag[/flag] Gothic 1
[flag]hu[/flag] Hungarian 1
[flag]id[/flag] Indonesian 1
[flag]lv[/flag] Latvian 1
[flag]lt[/flag]Lithuanian 1
[flag]noflag[/flag] Mirandese 1
[flag]noflag[/flag] Old Norse 1
[flag]noflag[/flag] Quenya 1
[flag]ro[/flag] Romanian 1
[flag]bs[/flag][flag]sr[/flag][flag]hr[/flag]Serbo-Croatian 1
[flag]noflag[/flag] Solresol 1
[flag]es[/flag] Spanish dialectology 1
[flag]tl[/flag] Tagalog 1
[flag]ta[/flag] Tamil 1
[flag]th[/flag] Thai 1
[flag]ug[/flag] Uyghur
[flag]yi[/flag] Yiddish 1
List of current participants and their respective languages:
''': ar de fa fi it nl
avi_87: de fr sr sv
Bizet: de nl
bryonj2255 & Sean of the Dead: grc lv nl no tr
Byzantophile: grc
Caius: ar ja
ChanahEmiliania: pt cat
csjc: fi fr is nl sv
culúrien: es de
Danial: fi id ja nl no th zh
Eginhard: ain ga
Élan: fa ug
etoile: el es ja ko
Fiona V.: es nl ru
frugalmeister: hi
hashi: et is mi
Hassan Zia: fa
ILuvEire: fi he pt
Jayan: da de fi
Jaybee: de he fa
Karavinka: Gothic is zh jp
Kenny: bg es la nl
Kuba: fa ga he hy yi
Lada: de tr
lichtrausch: ja
linguaholic: cs
lumiel: en et ja la
Lundgren: is zh
Meera: bn fa hi ta
Mefi: ru ge es
Merlin: fi hu is
mikael: de es fr
Milootis10: ja ko zh
Narbleh: fr-col eo es
Nendûr: fi grc ko
phaed: fr de
Polarkreis: sw fi Mirandese
Renaçido: ar es-dialects myn-classic zh
Riptide: es li ro tl
sergiolopes: de el
Smitty: hi zh
Stawrberry: fi he pt
Struthiomimus: ar ja solresol
Taydr: fi ja mi
TheKickInside: fa hi nl pt
tomh: is sv
Trapy: ain sr zh
Veqq: af de es fr ga hbs la nl no ru sv quenya
Vortex: ru pt
Weerwolf en
yersi: es fr it ja ko pt
邪悪歌: fi is ja
Notes:
1. "Arabic" has been assumed to be Modern Standard Arabic.
2. Icelandic and Old Norse are treated as the same language.
3. "Greek" has been assumed to be Modern Greek.
4.The language codes are neither Unilang's nor ISO's, but just the first three letters of the language in English, except for Latin which is lati and Latvian which is latv.
5. ANC=ancient, COL=colloquial, DIAL=dialects.Please tell me if there are any mistakes.
This list was updated on 2010/1/2 14:30:?? GMT .