LING 101 Mystery Cache
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***THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE LISTED COORDINATES***
The difficulty rating is based on the puzzle, not the hide.
The linguistics puzzle must be solved correctly to fill in the numbers for the actual cache location.
N 42° 31.ABC W 083° 13.DEF
SYNTAX -
A = The number of phrases included in the verb phrase in the following sentence + the number of nouns in the sentence + (the number of prepositions in the sentence X 2).
"The muggle found a geocache in a stump."
PHONETICS -
B = The number of phonemes in the word "cachers".
SEMANTICS -
C = (The maximum number of theta roles encoded in a verb + the minimum number of theta roles encoded in a verb) X 2.
PHONOLOGY -
D = The number of sounds that switch places during the process of metathesis.
PRAGMATICS -
E = The number of Grice’s Conversational Maxims + the number of primary participant roles in a verbal conversation + the number of syllables in the word "pragmatics".
MORPHOLOGY -
F = The number of derivational morphemes in the following word + the number of free morphemes + the number of bound morphemes + the number of lexical morphemes + 1.
"collectibleness"
N 42° 31.ABC W 083° 13.DEF
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gur ybt ybpngvba vf eryngrq gb gur anzr bs gur glcr bs qvntenz yvathvfgf hfr gb cnefr fragraprf.
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