Coding and Language Decoding
Crack a made-up language by comparing sentences that share words, copying the word order, and peeling off endings one at a time.
What it is
In a language-decoding item you get three or four short phrases in a made-up language, each with its English meaning. Then you must find what one word means, or build a new phrase. The language is invented, so you cannot know it: you work it out by comparing the phrases.
Two kinds appear: sentence codes, where each word stands for one English word, and growing words, where endings are stacked on a base word ("book", "my book", "my books").
Why it matters on the exam
These items appear in the Analytical (Professional) part and in coding tasks. Each one is pure reasoning: if you use the comparison method, you can be sure of the answer without guessing.
The same habit, comparing two cases that differ in one thing, is how you find the cause of a difference in records, forms or reports.
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- seti
- kana
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