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Q.17
« on: 12 March, 2011, 07:13:45 pm »
I am reliably informed that the correct answer is a drawing of a narwhal, unless you have the Welsh version of course.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #1 on: 12 March, 2011, 07:23:21 pm »
I have no idea what the Welsh for narwhal is..
I suspect that it is narwhal.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #2 on: 12 March, 2011, 07:24:28 pm »
No, it's an anagram. Llanhawr.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #3 on: 12 March, 2011, 07:27:10 pm »
I understand, but cannot write Narwhal.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #4 on: 12 March, 2011, 07:29:36 pm »
I have no idea what the Welsh for narwhal is..
I suspect that it is narwhal.


Yes, we'll also use the Old Norse name, like the English do.  ;D

Re: Q.17
« Reply #5 on: 12 March, 2011, 07:42:02 pm »
Here in Scotland our Q17 is "How well do you speak English?".

I think you're meant to give a personal opinion rather than state how easy it is for folk to understand you when you venture south of the border ;).

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Re: Q.17
« Reply #6 on: 12 March, 2011, 07:49:44 pm »
I am reliably informed that the correct answer is a drawing of a narwhal, unless you have the Welsh version of course.

We should so do that.  How many people need give an answer for it to be officially noticed, like people claiming Jedi for religion....?
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #7 on: 12 March, 2011, 07:57:02 pm »
I am reliably informed that the correct answer is a drawing of a narwhal, unless you have the Welsh version of course.

We should so do that.  How many people need give an answer for it to be officially noticed, like people claiming Jedi for religion....?

Someone needs to get on Facebook and Twitter.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #8 on: 12 March, 2011, 08:43:31 pm »
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #9 on: 12 March, 2011, 09:59:43 pm »
I am reliably informed that the correct answer is a drawing of a narwhal, unless you have the Welsh version of course.

We should so do that.  How many people need give an answer for it to be officially noticed, like people claiming Jedi for religion....?

Not a good idea! 

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Re: Q.17
« Reply #10 on: 13 March, 2011, 08:51:18 am »
I am reliably informed that the correct answer is a drawing of a narwhal, unless you have the Welsh version of course.

We should so do that.  How many people need give an answer for it to be officially noticed, like people claiming Jedi for religion....?

Not a good idea! 

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If your religion is of low enough importance to you to that you are willing to put in a religion from 3 good sci-fi films from years ago, and 3 more recent rubbish ones,please consider ticking "No Religion" instead. Every tick towards any religion, no matter if it is real or a bit of a joke (or both for that matter), gets counted towards the figures of religious people in the UK.

The data gathered is used to inform government policy, and was used by the last government to justify funding of religious community bodies over secular ones.

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I get your point, but drawing narwhals isn't going to give the powers that be ideas about religion, it'll just confuse them...

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Re: Q.17
« Reply #11 on: 13 March, 2011, 09:17:25 am »
I get your point, but drawing narwhals isn't going to give the powers that be ideas about religion, it'll just confuse them...

It won't confuse anyone as they're read by a machine and that area of the form will just be ignored.

It may confuse someone that goes to the trouble of finding and looking at your form on the microfiche version after they've all been scanned in.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #12 on: 13 March, 2011, 10:58:48 am »
So in 100 years time, when the data is publicly released, there'll be a surge of interest in narwhals?
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #13 on: 13 March, 2011, 11:13:03 am »
So in 100 years time, when the data is publicly released, there'll be a surge of interest in narwhals?

I suspect that it will prompt a study of a hitherto little known religious group that had the extinct narwhal as its symbol.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #14 on: 13 March, 2011, 03:00:04 pm »
It won't confuse anyone as they're read by a machine and that area of the form will just be ignored.

Not sure that's quite true. I believe that the forms are initially read by a scanner and then any answers that it can not decode are interpreted by real people and their interpretation of the answer keyed in to the database.

Re: Q.17
« Reply #15 on: 13 March, 2011, 03:16:05 pm »
It won't confuse anyone as they're read by a machine and that area of the form will just be ignored.

Not sure that's quite true. I believe that the forms are initially read by a scanner and then any answers that it can not decode are interpreted by real people and their interpretation of the answer keyed in to the database.

I'd expect it to ignore the entire area of Q17 for English Forms since there isn't any answer to read.
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Re: Q.17
« Reply #16 on: 28 March, 2011, 08:08:03 pm »
The right answer for Q17 is:

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