Quizmail 106

[dimple]

I'm almost afraid to ask in case I get shouted at, Oh go on I'm a big boy. Has anyone any assistance for Q106 "The seven letter name of the people and their language, who inhabit a large Asian country consisting of many islands, a name which translates as "native river""
I'd be very grateful!

[mazie]

if you can get this bit

"a large Asian country consisting of many islands"

the rest is easy using google

[dimple]

Thanks for that Mazie, it's the name of the country I'm having trouble with!

[mazie]

Hi dimple

copy this

"a large Asian country consisting of many islands"

and then paste it into google for the answer

Good luck x

[mazie]

whoops..dont copy the inverted commas! just the text

[Tallulah!]

What's all this quot & quot business? A map of asia is VERY useful.

[squarebear]

Some browsers display " as " ;

[squarebear]

sorry that was supposed to be & q u o t

[dimple]

Thank you all for your contributions, helpful, critical and obvious. I knew I would get shouted at but didn't think it would be because of the way my browser deals with quotation marks. I still am no where nearer to the answer by the way.

[Tallulah!]

So does your browser not let you display "native river" like I've done here. I press the 2 key as if it's a capital and there I go. Answer solved. And I'm sorry but I do Quizmail without asking for help and don't give any either. There aren't THAT many countries in Asia to look at each one in wikipaedia which is what I use a lot. The Brewers Dictionary of names is very useful too.
Good Luck and don't be horrible to me squarebear!

[dimple]

Thank you for your lesson Miss Bankhead. Having spent 30years as a computer engineer (starting way back when they had valves in them) I'm very grateful. I wish we were all as clever and didn't need any help.
If you don't ask for help, or give any, why do you look on answerbank?

[squarebear]

Ignore Tallulah. You are welcome to ask as many questions as you need help with.
Posts like this just make me more determined to help.

The answer is TAGALOG
[i]The word Tagalog derived from tag�-�log, from tag�- meaning "native of" and �log meaning "river[/i]

and the only reason I have posted is due to people complaining.

[Tallulah!]

Oh, but I do give advice for some crosswords/quizzes but not ones that I'm entering like Quizmail, GBQ and GFQ. I don't understand why your keyboard doesn't work like mine. I don't even know what all the talk about browser means. That's what I am at the Library when I look up my answers!
If you google countries of asia wiki, all the countries are displayed alphabetically and most can be ruled out as they are obviously landmass.

[dimple]

Thank you squarebear, and Miss Bankhead.