Wielerprono - cycling pronostication

30-01.-2004, 02:20 AM	#1
OxO Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: wielerpronoland Posts: 17	Wielerprono - cycling pronostication Fellow cycling fans, In the last month, we (a couple of Belgian students) have been developing Wielerprono.be . Our website has been online for over a week in dutch, but we decided to translate it into Enlgish and French too, to make it possible for all international cycling-fans to enter our FREE online pronostication game! Therefore, we are placing our link here, for 2 reasons! 1) We would like you, native speakers, to check our translation! We are not native english speakers, and so there is a big chance that there are flaws in our translation. Names of races, small words, typical errors... We have no idea wether our translation is good or not. So we would LOVE to see it reviewed by people with better English skills than us 2) We would love to get participants from all over the world. Our game will go on after the first part of the world cup with the tour de france, and with latter stages of the world cup. So the more international out participants are, the more fun we will have with the game... It would be great to see a lot of foreign competitors! (maybe they'll have a different view on cycling?) Anyhow, the link is www.wielerprono.be , and feedback is allways welcome! Thanks in advance for your interest, or even help! Jinx & Crombates www.wielerprono.be

30-01.-2004, 03:01 AM	#2
rob of the og Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 221	Not sure anyone ever says "pronostication" in English, but I guess that's to fit in with the name of the site in Dutch. We'd usually call it 'fantasy cycling' or 'classics prediction' or something. Otherwise the site is nicely designed and the English is better than I could manage :-)

30-01.-2004, 03:05 AM

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Originally posted by rob of the og
Not sure anyone ever says "pronostication" in English, but I guess that's to fit in with the name of the site in Dutch. We'd usually call it 'fantasy cycling' or 'classics prediction' or something. Otherwise the site is nicely designed and the English is better than I could manage :-)

So if we use prediction, that would be better? I honestly just took a dictionary

30-01.-2004, 05:41 AM	#4
ccorrick Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Houston Posts: 97	I had to get out a dictionary!!! Never heard the word. Just added it to the "cool words" list

30-01.-2004, 05:54 AM

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Originally posted by ccorrick
I had to get out a dictionary!!! Never heard the word. Just added it to the "cool words" list

So you're saying i knew an english word a native speaker did NOT know?

haha
Cool!

(hehe, and don't forget to sign up too ccorrick

30-01.-2004, 07:36 AM	#6
ccorrick Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Houston Posts: 97	Yeah, It's middle english. Very old word. It would be prognostication now if it was used(i'm sure someone uses it, but probably not in Texas, ROFL!!). Was never on my spelling list for sure

31-01.-2004, 06:34 AM	#7
Roche Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 27	The only time I heard that word was in a play in school written by the Irish playwrite Sean O'Casey! I think it was "Juno and the Paycock" and this dude called Joxer was in it complaing about the procrastinators and prognosticators.... I still dont have a clue what they are though???

31-01.-2004, 07:21 AM	#8
OxO Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: wielerpronoland Posts: 17	Oh well It's a common word in dutch, so we hoped... hehe Anyhow, i guess the game is worth playing, even without a catchy name

01-02.-2004, 06:33 AM	#9
Rider63 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 2	For the bets on cycling www.MrBookmaker.com is nr 1 ! For the present(sat. 31 jan.) Tour de France and Tour of Flanders are availables ! Soon the others races .... A little tip for your next races/bets ! __________________ Cycling with www.MrBookmaker.com

01-02.-2004, 09:08 PM	#10
OxO Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: wielerpronoland Posts: 17	hehe well, let it be clear We're not a bookie-association... Our game is just a fun game to show off your knowledge.... oXo www.wielerprono.be

02-02.-2004, 04:36 AM	#11
Rider63 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 2	Ah ok, sorry for my mistake and good luck for your project __________________ Cycling with www.MrBookmaker.com

02-02.-2004, 04:42 AM	#12
OxO Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: wielerpronoland Posts: 17	hehe thx We're going for the "hay guys let's do a prediction-game" kinda game

02-02.-2004, 02:51 PM	#13
jstraw Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Topeka, KS Posts: 204	Ok, here's Team "Pinchflats": 1 Paolo Bettini 2 Erik Zabel 9 Michael Boogerd 18 Peter Van Petegem 26 Michele Bartoli 28 Luca Paolini 34 Daniele Nardello 35 Dave Bruylandts 43 Stuart O'Grady 90 Tom Boonen

10-02.-2004, 08:26 PM	#14
lucky36 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 6	For the bookies Frank Vandenbroucke is the favorite for the 'Omloop Het Volk'(Race 1.1, saturday 28 feb.) with Peter Van Petegem, Johan Museeuw, Tom Boonen .... A betting is certainly a advantageous piece of information for a game as 'wielerprono' ! Attached Images __________________ Cycling and Bets --> www.MrBookmaker.com

30-03.-2004, 08:00 AM	#15
OxO Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: wielerpronoland Posts: 17	jstraw managed some points already, good work. Our site is still growing bigtime, feel free to enter te waiting list to join our Tour of France game!

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