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Fan Area => Roleplaying (Communitive Storywriting) => Poetry, Comedy, and other. => Topic started by: Weavers on July 09, 2008, 07:06:07 pm
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Expand your vocabulary and shock your friends!
Greetings, players of PlaneShift and forum dwellers. We bring to you a challenge in the form of a single word. Your task is to use this word in a sentence meaningful to the In-Character world of Yliakum. Your sentence can be about your character, NPCs, Settings Lore, locations, etc. Do not make it about OOC matters such as players, GMs, or bugs.
If you wish, you may use the word in a small paragraph to help define the word. Others should be able to gather the meaning of the word from the context of your writing. In the example of 'plethora',
"There was a plethora of dwarves." -is not a good submission.
A Klyros stumbles out of Kada's, gasping for air. He looks around and exclaims, "The tavern is filled with a plethora of dwarves! You can't spit without hitting three of them." -is a good submission.
We will assign a new word every week. Have fun and be creative.
Past words of the week:
Plethora- an extreme excess. Winner: Lolitra Purrty
Brumous - misty. Winner: Zorbels
Fremescence- building din, often (obscurely) used in describing the murmur of a crowd. Winner: Lolitra Purrty. Honorable mention to Prolix for use of the word in the game.
Evanescence- A fading or Vanishing. Winner: A group effort this time, for helping each other in the usage of the ward. Well done.
Guffaw- A deep and sometimes riotous laugh. Winner: Sorry, Prolix, but Lolitra wins once again.
Gregarious/Glyptic- Winner.............................. Prolix.
Word of the week:
C-Y-O
(choose your own)
Since the server is still down, we will be doing things a little differently this week. The rules are simple. You choose your own obscure word, make a sentence, then challenge others to beat your writing by using your word, plus one of their own. Here are the steps.
1: Look at the previous person's new word.
2: List your word in bold.
3: Write your sentence using their word, plus your own.
4: Wait for the next person to use the word you wrote in bold, plus their own.
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A plethora of officials govern Yliakum.
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The Ylian giving the speech kept getting the crowd confused. He used a plethora of words none of us knew. Like plethora.
:D
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A plethora of people didn't make a plethora of submissions, likely because they were extracting a plethora of platinum from the ground at one of Yliakum's plethora of mines or consuming a plethora of drinks with a plethora of friends in Kada's. Plethora.
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I disagree with Parallo. A plethora of people did not make a submission yes but that is because you were plethoric in your use of the word plethora. They felt you said it enough for us all :P
[Not sure if I used plethoric right there but worth a shot. And just kidding Parallo :P]
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A plethora of idiots follow Duraza and his plethora of faults :D
I have a plethora of love for Duraza and Parallo (Don't think that works... but whatever :P)
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OooooOOoo.
As soon as the Octarchy reopened the platinum mines and market, the world became inundated with a plethora of hopeful miners and sacks veritably bursting with coins.
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I propound the word Camarilla... as a Camarilla of Octarchs who debate with torpid, yet recondite vocabulary over subjective topics. One has a plethora of things to debate.
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If one wishes to spice up a pudding or a pie, one would seem to have a plethora of options, everything from tefusang tooth to banuts. If one chooses wisely the camarilla will be too sick to sway the octarchs decision. While some spices vary in quality others are fully fungible
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um... camarilla is not a noun - I was incorrect to capitalise it. Or are you seeing if there is a plethora of ways to test the fungibility of words, or even missuse them? Perhaps we are being too plethoric with it all!
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It is indeed a noun.
camarilla
Main Entry:
cam·a·ril·la
\ˌka-mə-ˈri-lə, -ˈrē-ə\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Spanish, literally, small room
Date:
1834
: a group of unofficial often secret and scheming advisers; also : cabal
Now my use of fungible was a bit of a stretch but I think the camarilla might croodle when they realize from the plethora of their faces, viz. :-[, that the octarch wished to be rid of them. Perhaps this is going a different direction than the OP intended.
I would think that the camarilla of octarchs would not be a group of octarchs but rather a group of octarchal advisors.
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oops I meant Pro-Noun.
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By summary judgment, we declare Lolitra Purrty the winner for her eloquent use of 'plethora'.
Our next word shall be brumous, which casts itself into the very abyss of obscurity by rendering itself immune to the wiles of spellcheckers across the world.
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As we crested the summit, brumous patches dotted the valleys below where the rivulets fled from the heights and splashed into unseen pools.
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Sour-smelling brumous pillars rose from the backs of our umbrous bos urus as we trundled mous down the urbs past the sorbus and rubus.
Not PS related at all but I saw an opportunity to use a huge amount of words found within the original word and one even more obscure anagram so I seized it.
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Ok I am going to give this a try. I hope it fits in the sentence as it is supposed to. :whistling:
The forest was filled with different shades of blue, grey, and purples and seemed alive as the brumous flowed swirling softly around the trees.
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Ok I am going to give this a try. I hope it fits in the sentence as it is supposed to. :whistling:
The forest was filled with different shades of blue, grey, and purples and seemed alive as the brumous flowed swirling softly around the trees.
I think you got it wrong, you used it as a noun, which is actually brume.
Brumous mornings are a sign of sweltering afternoons.
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we trundled mous down the urbs past the sorbus and rubus.
What the heck are mous supposed to be? Microsoft certifications? Scottish mouths? All the other words I could find a meaning to even if they were Latinate designations. Well Mous could be short for Mustafa. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mous) That was the only place I found a definition for urbs (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=urbs) as well.
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Brumous clouds of air born morning dew clung to the Bromus secalinus that stirred it like hypnotised shafts all swaying to the charm of the breeze. Nothing had prepared the townsfolk for the brume blanket that was to roll out from over the swirling mass of golden rye... It brought their daily lives to a chilly stand-still.
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Brumous clouds of air born morning dew
A tad redundant Lolitra dear ^^
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I think you got it wrong, you used it as a noun, which is actually brume.
Awwww, crap! Oh well, I tried. :P Thanks for your correction Eliseth. Much appreciated. I'll try to think of something else.
[Edit] Ok I got a sentence for the thread. With some help. Thanks neko for your help.
"As dawn broke, I looked out my window over looking the Hydlaa Plaza and said to myself, "It looks like it's going to be a brumous morning.", and with that I went back to bed.
[Edit 2] Ok I have some more sentences that I have come up with on my own. :)
The brumous sky shifted and lowered baleful over the sere landscape.
The old crochety wizard glared out the crumbling tower window and muttered complaint to the brumous day.
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Eliseth pulled her coat tightly around her as the cold air tried to penetrate her warmth. She walked through the streets of Hydlaa and smiled as she smelled the strong smell of freshly baked bread that pierced through the brumous morning air. "Sarine... breaker of the brume" she said, giggling to herself.
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Brumous clouds of air born morning dew
A tad redundant Lolitra dear ^^
How so? Brumous - only means foggy, or misty - ok, so I missed the word 'like' perhaps - 'Brumous like clouds of air-born morning dew...' would have been better? or maybe I should have used 'wisps' instead of clouds - 'Brumous like wisps of air-born... ' or even tufts... - it would be nice if you explained your reasoning - sometimes peoples understanding can be a little brumous. [I know what it can be like to have cotton wool between the ears... hehe]
Nature sweeps her brume in and over the lands to brush aside the noisy warm chatter, leaving icy brumous words hanging visibly in the air after swirling out of shocked villagers' mouths....
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The brumous conditions around the Ruins that morning allowed Jerila to sneak past the ulbernauts and gather a posy of snowbuds and charmflowers for her sisters wedding celebration.
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hehe, not to worry Lolitra, it looks like you got my reasoning anyway. Brumous clouds of morning dew is redundant because clouds of morning dew are brumous by default, no need to say it :) But your corrections are good ^^
Nature sweeps her brume in and over the lands to brush aside the noisy warm chatter, leaving icy brumous words hanging visibly in the air after swirling out of shocked villagers' mouths....
Lovely.
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"Everybody was smoking and the room became brumous" :P Sorry
Waking up at dawn, Nurahk noticed that it was a brumous morning - very brumous - in fact, he could barely see his pet XilliX because of all the morning mist even though the scamp was playing just ten feet away from the tree upon which Nurahk lay.
<.<
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It was so brumous in the room that Theirah walked right into a wall.
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The witches gathered speed upon their brooms, plummeting into a thick swirling brumous air that hid the bromus, their brooms brushed the bromus and swept aside the brume, and their faces acquired a chill from the thrill of it all.
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Consumption of ores laced with bromine can be quite unpleasant for Kran and those in their vicinity as it can cause them unfortunate Kran to emit brumous bromides of silicon, a most foul smelling event.
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we trundled mous down the urbs past the sorbus and rubus.
What the heck are mous supposed to be? Microsoft certifications? Scottish mouths? All the other words I could find a meaning to even if they were Latinate designations. Well Mous could be short for Mustafa. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mous) That was the only place I found a definition for urbs (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=urbs) as well.
A mou (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394462/mou) is a Chinese unit of measurement. Urb I have used wrong. I believed it to be the term for different districts of ancient Rome but it in fact appears to have been any town on the Italian peninsula but Rome.
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My eyes get all brumous when I realize my sad joke about bromides of silicon probably ended the attempts at levity in this thread.
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To eliminate the foul intrusion left behind by mud encrusted feet, i swept my porous floor(ous) with my brumous. X-/
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By summary judgment, we declare Zorbels the winner for her excellent use of 'brumous' to induce a certain mood and giving a good feeling of what the word means.
The brumous sky shifted and lowered baleful over the sere landscape.
The old crochety wizard glared out the crumbling tower window and muttered complaint to the brumous day.
Our next word shall be:
Fremescence
A word which we are sure you will find well use for.
New rule: Anyone who uses this word in the game and In-Character then quotes it here with a few lines of conversation (for context) shall be given extra consideration in judging.
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The fremescence of the gambrinous crowd put doubt in the heart of the king and he unobtrusively haingled away.. :devil:
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If you do not stop favoring the distaff side the fremescense of the Neanderthals will drown out all other sounds!
*sotto voce* Those quotes could just have easily exchanged frabulous for brumous for all the meaning they imparted!
/me goes on muttering
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The waves crashed along the shore, their angry din growing in eternal fremescence.
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Every time there is an update the fremescent complaining of the community starts again.
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By summary judgment, we declare Zorbels the winner for her excellent use of 'brumous' to induce a certain mood and giving a good feeling of what the word means.
The brumous sky shifted and lowered baleful over the sere landscape.
The old crochety wizard glared out the crumbling tower window and muttered complaint to the brumous day.
:woot: Awesome and thank you! This was unexpected but a nice surprise.
@Waylander: HA! To true and well put! Gave me a chuckle.
I also want to say this was my favorite sentence with the word brumous. It was very poetic.
As we crested the summit, brumous patches dotted the valleys below where the rivulets fled from the heights and splashed into unseen pools.
Here is my sentence for the new word fremescence.
The fremescence of the crowd drowned out the swords clashing together and the cries of triumph and defeat throughout the hallways of the Hydlaa arena once the event of the day with warrior vs Ulbernaut started.
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Inhalation of brumous alcohol at Kada-El's can cause plethora of the face and hands and excessive fremescence from the patrons.
Any points for using all the words?
(Thanks Zorbels, I thought I was a shoe-in)
[Plethora \Pleth"o*ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to be or become
full. Cf. Pleonasm.]
1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood
vessels; repletion;]
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The fremescence of the yelling of the crowd grew stronger.The subtle whispers quickly growing to loud grumbling.
(One itty, bitty, little problem with this word...It is enitirely too hard to find a definition for it. X-/ )
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Fremescent \Fre*mes"cent\, a. [L. fremere to roar, murmur +
-escent.]
Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." --Carlyle.
-- Fre*mes"cence, n.
You can always put it in a google search followed by define. It usually works pretty good. I use Kdict an online dictionary for KDE. It works quite well. I also have a few targetted search fields set up in Firefox, Merrium Webster, Dictionary.com, The Free Dictionary, Word Reference.com, among others.
I suspect most of these words are coming from the 1913 Websters Dictionary (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/673)
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At first, Lolitra could hear the words of the individual in the Royal Chambers, but as the debate touched on more delicate issues like - 'who should be their king?' the heated exchanges escalated to a confused fremescent tirade punctuated only by visual outbursts of vehement verve of the individual. She frowned at this fremescence then stilled it with a simple lifting of her right paw – only one continued, his voice bounced off the tall walls of the chambers, each echo thumping its meaning ever harder home, “…I still think that the queen should do our bidding…” Her heart sank, as she knew the time drew nearer, and she may no longer have a choice. Lolitra’s own myriad of thoughts each vied for attention so much so that they too became a fremescent din that would not be so easily silenced.
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Wow. Nice one Lady Purrty! That is going to be tough to beat, me thinks.
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(21:51:14) Jayose says: Welcome to Jayose's Librams and Codexes. I hope your visit is an enlightening one.
(21:51:35) Bilbous says: Hi jayose how are you today?
(21:52:14) Bilbous says: do you have any dictionaries?
(21:52:16) Jayose says: Give you what? You'll have to be more specific.
(21:54:43) Bilbous says: um yes I am looking for a book of word definitions so I can discover if the adjective fremescent and its noun form fremescence come from the verb fremesce and if such a word exists.
(21:54:45) Jayose says: Look no further, my friend, for this is the home of the printed word. I am not allowing anyone else to borrow books at the moment, but you are free to read any one you want here.
(21:55:50) Bilbous says: Great! do you happen to know in which aisle I might find that book?
(21:55:52) Jayose says: I have a good deal on my mind. If you would like to speak with me, you must be concise.
(21:56:30) Bilbous says: I understand you are busy. I'll just look around ok?
(21:56:32) Jayose says: I have a good deal on my mind. If you would like to speak with me, you must be concise.
(21:56:40) Bilbous says: ok good bye
(21:56:42) Jayose says: Goodbye. Remember to dedicate some time to building your knowledge!
(21:57:34) Bilbous starts to fremesce at Jayose's obtuseness.
PS fremesce does not exist. ;D
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Fremescently chuntering at Jayose' obtuseness, well, that is something! Perhaps he too has fremescent thoughts that cloud out his understanding of your request Bilbous?
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Ya I know yammering at NPCs was a cheap stunt but it was good for a laugh. Somebody had to go for the extra consideration from posting chat logs. It will not likely put me over the top, anyway./me goes on grumbling....
...past my prime...
...over the hill...
...lost sight of the brass ring.../me gets more exercised as he walks away...
When Will I Learn...
Stupid...STupID ... STUPID!!...../me fremescently berates himself as he rounds the hill and goes out of earshot.
Look at me Ma! Call me Avis as I "try harder"
I better quit while I'm behind.
*snicker*
It kind of seems to me that fremescence implies an assortment of audio inputs such as a crowd of people, a set of rapids or the like. That means I am probably using it wrong even if I am parsing correctly the various grammatical forms. I have always believed that no dictionary has ever been complete because there are more ways to form words than are commonly used. A noun can be changed into a verb, adjective or adverb under the right circumstances and they in turn can be made into nouns. That is why you have entries such as -ence suffix of nouns Forming nouns of action, quality, state or condition of adjectives in -ent.
or prefix en- Forming transitive verbs ... From nouns ... adjectives ... and verbs
and -en suffix Forming verbs from adjectives ... nouns
All these examples came from my Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary International Edition copyright 1965.
I always lost Scrabble because I'd be challenged for making up words and pointing to the combining form was not accepted.
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Here, (http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/) have a link, in case you run out of these ;)
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By summary judgment, we once again declare Lolitra the winner for actually making fremescence sound like a commonly used word while imparting the complete meaning of the word in an organic way. Prolix arrived in a close second due to his ingame usage. Had he used the word with actual players, he may have pulled ahead.
Our next word shall be:
Evanescence
We visit a word in the same family as our last word. No, not the band. This word has a tricky usage, so be cautious. You may find it useful in conjunction with our second word.
New rule: More bonus points to someone who uses two or more of these words in a coherent sentence or paragraph. In game consideration still applies.
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1. Evanescence may occur if the invisibility spell is not quite perfectly cast. Properly cast the effect is immediate.
2. As we passed further down the lee side of the mountain and caught up with the plethora of fleeing rivulets the surrounding brumous patches evanesced into rainbow spangled flumes fremescently spilling their bounty of alpine nutrients into the intromissive tarns below.
I Must Be Acknowledged! I used every word and recycled my best single effort. \\o//
(Maybe I am trying too hard) ;D
::)
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Well, time to try again:
In the month of Dwanden, hoarfrost forms on the lower levels. During this time the Great Furnaces Warm the water of the Lake from below. As you ride in you vessel across the water, steam gently curls upward into view. As you pass through it, it's evanescence reveals a beautiful view of the Lake that is unique to the time.
:)
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The Enkidukai looked out of his window, enjoying the view giving by the brumous morning. As the day went on in the fremescent city the evanescence of the morning fog revealed the true beauty of Hydlaa, the temple of Laanx.
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Lolitra was shaken after the latest gathering in the Royal Courts. The fremescent jostling of her thoughts left her reeling, dulling her usually acute perseptions. The brumous morning now caused her eyes to dance to and fro over the evanescing scenary without actually catching a clear glimpse of anything. There was a plethora of things to be done; all vying for her attention, none, right now, receiving it. The words that had rung about the great halls earlier still stung her heart.
"Could it be? no... surely the authority of the Throne was not evanecible? surely not!" she found herself saying as a grey figure evanesced into bumous swirls that danced into the shadows like droplets of ink fading into turbulent waters...
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Too bad I spelt this weeks word wrong.... :beta:
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A cold steel blade pierced the lemurs chest. As he looked around he found his world quickly becoming evanescent, the rogue and blade fading away. Soon the lemur's very world disappeared from sight. When the evanescence of Ojaveda was complete the lemur found himself staring into the dark depths of the Death Realm, the fremescence of the city gone. Dread filled him as he realized that the very darkness of this realm was so brumous that he feared no light could pierce it.
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A cold steel blade pierced the lemurs chest. As he looked around he found his world quickly becoming evanescent, the rogue and blade fadding away. Soon the lemur's very world disappeared from sight. When the evanescence of Ojaveda was complete the lemur found himself staring into the dark depths of the Death Realm, the fremescence of the city gone. Dread filled him as he realized that the very darkness of this realm was so brumous that he feared no light could pierce it.
The highlighted part is not quite right - an active happening, cannot be a past happening - your tense is rather odd. Perhaps 'evanescing' would be a better useage?
I also fadding? Fading I presume hehe.
Also the fremescence of the city? perhaps you mean the fremescence of the city's hubub? [this one is borderline debatable.]
I hope this helps? if not, oh hum.
Lolitra
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The fremescence of the music written by Evanescence is unbearable.
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The highlighted part is not quite right - an active happening, cannot be a past happening - your tense is rather odd. Perhaps 'evanescing' would be a better useage?
I also fadding? Fading I presume hehe.
Also the fremescence of the city? perhaps you mean the fremescence of the city's hubub? [this one is borderline debatable.]
I hope this helps? if not, oh hum.
Lolitra
Thanks Lolitra. Grammer and spelling were never my strong points ;D
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Thanks Lolitra. Grammer and spelling were never my strong points ;D
*Ahem*
It's spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-R. :P
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I think it was ok to begin with, "When the evanescence of Ojaveda" was a subjunctive clause telling us what "was complete," which was the past pluperfect modifier telling us when "the lemur found himself staring." The whole paragraph gives the feel of happening in a timeless manner but probably some indefinite time in the past. I must get myself a book of grammar. He might have missed some punctuation there somewhere maybe a comma or a semi-colon.
Then again I might have just made up the preceding completely. It could have no bearing on proper English. ::|
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Prolix - you cannot have a future tense and past tense together in the same sentence where the 'modifier' as you put it states it is over...
It could be ''when the evenescence of Ojaveda is complete, then the Lemur would find himself..." that would be more accurate - but a clumsy sentence still.
Getting a bit off topic, here, but I do not see a future tense in that sentence. In fact the future tense is not something that fits with a narrative style as it is a retelling of events that have already occurred. It all looks past tense to me, "found" is the past tense of "to find," "was" is the past tense of "to be." Is one of the forms I suggested typically used in the future tense or where do you see it, Lolitra?
Sorry, I meant present and future-past, for the sentence starts out talking about the now, then it goes onto the future speaking of it as the past... it is a clash of tenses that do not sit right - Sorry to Duraza for making so much of this - as I do like his actual idea.
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Getting a bit off topic, here, but I do not see a future tense in that sentence. In fact the future tense is not something that fits with a narrative style as it is a retelling of events that have already occurred. It all looks past tense to me, "found" is the past tense of "to find," "was" is the past tense of "to be." Is one of the forms I suggested typically used in the future tense or where do you see it, Lolitra?
Since I mentioned improper punctuation, I admit that I will misuse it regularly. Kind of an awkward statement but I think I used a verb in each of past, present and future tense. I may be wrong though they could have been some other grammatical form in one case or another.
I'm just groping in the dark here as my school days are long gone in the brumous dawn of time, evanesced in the plethora of fremescent factoids piled higher and deeper than even a PhD could wade through before graduation.
:o
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Duraza is using evanescence as a noun. "Was" is the verb and "The evanescence of Ojaveda" is the subject. The sentence is correct as far as I can tell.
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Just wanting to poke weavers and remind them that it is a new week and time for a new ridiculously hard word to use. ;)
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By summary judgment, we declare The Group the winner for helping each other in the usage of the word.
Our next word shall be:
Guffaw
An easy word this week, but one we have noticed some people do not know the exact meaning of. Your writing skills will come into play heavily this week. Good writing!
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/me guffaws copiously. I use this word all the time in the game, no mere titters, no polite giggles, just full out spit take, uproariously jocular buffonery, cackle Jack!
Seems a bit like you have lost interest in this game of yours.
(14:43:28) Yanlora says: Have a good day to mister Kran..
(14:43:53) Yanlora says: *too
(14:43:54) Bronko says: you meaning me?
(14:44:18) Bilbous says: you a kran?
(14:44:23) Bronko says: no
(14:44:23) Bilbous guffaws
(14:44:37) Bronko says: dermorian
(14:45:04) Bronko says: and proud of it
(14:45:28) Bilbous says: good for you. I'm off as well
13:23:35) Bilbous says: go fight some critters with all that protection
(13:24:10) Bilbous says: your master must get awfully bored watching you do that
(13:24:45) Miltiades says: That's your opinion, Kra. It's boring,. but it's a work that has to be done.
(13:24:50) Bilbous says: If I were him I'd jack up the price
(13:25:26) Bilbous says: or maybe open the ground beneath you....
(13:25:53) Bilbous guffaws
(13:25:55) Miltiades says: Ok, what do you want, kran?
(13:26:05) >Miltiades Mavrrogialouros takes a seat by Bilbous.
(13:26:25) Bilbous says: I want platinum
(13:26:37) Miltiades says: Go dig it then
(13:26:39) Bilbous says: I'm getting a little peckish
(13:27:12) Bilbous says: can I eat your rock wall?
(13:27:26) Miltiades says: Lol, be my guest.
(04:46:18) Aringo says: bs, may i consider you a buddy of mine?
(04:46:46) Aringo says: in case you need to pay taxes in the future i may help you, no?
(04:46:47) Bilbous says: I can't tell you what to think but you may think differently after a time
(04:47:28) Aringo says: ok, bs, see you around!
(04:47:36) Bilbous says: if you want me to pay taxes you will have to find me an income
(04:47:51) Aringo says: Good guy... you know more than me!
(04:47:52) Bilbous laughs
(04:48:15) Bilbous says: that will be two tria please
(04:48:22) Bilbous guffaws
(04:48:39) Aringo laughs
(04:48:52) Aringo says: Ok sir, see you!
(04:49:01) Bilbous says: buy buy
(04:50:43) Bilbous says: durned taxman didn't have two tria to rub together. not gonna last long in that job
16:45:38) Elvors says: Riverlings flee the light
(16:45:48) Junial says: they have a clicking sound
(16:45:53) Junial says: thats what i know
(16:45:57) Junial says: and they are good runners
(16:45:59) Bilbous says: wonder if dhergir is good with a nice riverling sauce...
(16:45:59) Junial giggles
(16:46:16) Bilbous guffaws
(16:46:46) Junial says: but
(16:46:48) Bilbous says: Think I might go dig up a snack somewhere
(16:46:51) Junial says: do you eat that at all Gemma
(16:47:29) Bilbous says: I eat whatever I put in my mouth, I guess.
(16:47:44) Elvors laughs
(16:47:53) Junial frowns slightly but shakes her head with a smile "as you wish sir"
Maybe you just want me to finally win!/me guffaws again.
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I vote Prolix, his laugh is no mere titter, nor a snigger, not even a hearty laugh, or belly wobbling jiggler of humour - but, his is a heart fealt guffaw, one that wriggles out of the lungs in large convulses of gutteral sounds of merriment - yes a true guffaw! so.. I vote Prolix for making me laugh.
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I want no guff! Aw, and those logs were just since 4.01! I could dig up some more guffaws from further back but surely I have lost more laughs than I could still locate. I do recall the odd smirk, the fair snork and justified chortle, chuckle and tee-hee when bilbous related his ulbernaut - kran baby origin tale. Sadly, memory is all I have of that and the logs are lost in time.
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Now that I've had my fun, lets move on to the next word.
How about "effleurage?" or better still, "glyptic!" Now there is a word fit for the Planeshift forum!
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By summary judgment, we declare Lolitra the winner for her near-poetic use of the word, leaving no doubt at all of the meaning.
Our next word shall be:
Gregarious/Glyptic
To make this more of a challenge, we will be using two words this week. Their dissimilar nature should prove to be somewhat difficult to conjoin in a meaningful way.
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Not being a gregarious sort, indeed shunning personal contacts reflexively, bilbous decided to retreat from the forums to pursue the glyptic arts, trying to inscribe the proper symbol onto a flawless diamond to bind magically into the Dark Way Glyph that would allow him to win this silly game. He was doomed to failure but his obsession compelled him to go on trying.
How hard was that?
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Rikti, being a fun, friendly sort, escorted kras guests through the city in kras usual gregarious manner, talking and making commentary on the glyptic designs of the Kran buildings. :D
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Greg Arious was a garrulous sort of person who would talk to anyone at any time even when he was busy carving cryptic symbols into his polished rock collection. One day he was talking to a new friend he had just met and he got so engrossed in the discussion that he messed up the monogrammed pendent he was making for Erregula Mandrilla. He never skipped a beat in the conversation, he just pulled down a rasp and started the plane of the E-glyptic.
(http://web.ncf.ca/cr502/googley.gif)
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By summary judgment, we finally declare Prolix the winner for his fine use of not one, but two obscure words. On to the next challenge.
Our next word shall be:
C-Y-O
(choose your own)
Since the server is still down, we will be doing things a little differently this week. The rules are simple. You choose your own obscure word, make a sentence, then challenge others to beat your writing by using your word, plus one of their own. Here are the steps.
1: Look at the previous person's new word. (this is the challenge word)
2: List your word in bold.
3: Write your sentence using their word, plus your own.
4: Wait for the next person to use the word you wrote in bold, plus their own.
The person who posts first may use any of the previous words in this thread as their challenge word.
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After such an enjoyable experience at the Hydlaa Summer Festival, Beniel hoped that it would become a yearly, aestival event.
[not the most poetic of sentences, but hopefully an interesting word to kick this thing off.]
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The aestivale festival had plenty of comestibles, plump tubers grown by Gruebers, fat carrots produced by Barrets, succulent kikiri raised by Chikieri, among other things.
Among other things, there was an oratorical competition where the winning speech artfully utilized anadiplosis. Anadiplosis, of course, is the rhetorical repetition of an ending of a sentence, clause or phrase, emphasized at the beginning of the next. At the beginning of the next aestivale festival we expect to see more produce, farm goods and competition. We hope to have a late summer fair every year until the crystal falls from the sky!