A riddle fo you

[LARAGORN]

I'd like to buy a vowel Pat..

[bilbous]

Pulled from the IRC
<Arireare>   so if
<Arireare>   'the next sentance i say is a lie'
<Arireare>   'the last sentance i said is a lie'
<Arireare>   so witch sentance is the lie?

I would say that neither was a sentence being merely fragments. They could be sentences but clearly they are not.
Moreover once you have said "The last sentence I said is a lie" (might be better stated as "My last sentence was a lie"), it refers to itself and removes the need for the first sentence. Both fragments suffer from the same temporal difficulty as the tense of the verb is inappropriate. "The next sentence will be", "the last sentence was," if you see what I mean.

[zorbels]

Heres one for all you english language lovers.

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?  

  I will post the answer after people have taken a shot at figuring it out.

[zanzibar]

Pulled from the IRC
<Arireare>   so if
<Arireare>   'the next sentance i say is a lie'
<Arireare>   'the last sentance i said is a lie'
<Arireare>   so witch sentance is the lie?

I would say that neither was a sentence being merely fragments. They could be sentences but clearly they are not.
Moreover once you have said "The last sentence I said is a lie" (might be better stated as "My last sentence was a lie"), it refers to itself and removes the need for the first sentence. Both fragments suffer from the same temporal difficulty as the tense of the verb is inappropriate. "The next sentence will be", "the last sentence was," if you see what I mean.

Bilbous, you're a real winner.

[bilbous]

Thank you Zanzibar.

BTW My comment was in no way meant as an attack on anyone and if it was perceived as such I apologise. I just thought that as many of the posters here do not speak English natively it was worth pointing out one of the trickier aspects of the language that is different than many other languages. Getting the tense of verbs is something that many native speakers of English get wrong from time to time.

What does I won Z? 

And yes I intentionally used the wrong tense in the previous sentence.

[emeraldfool]

Thank you Zanzibar.

BTW My comment was in no way meant as an attack on anyone and if it was perceived as such I apologise. I just thought that as many of the posters here do not speak English natively it was worth pointing out one of the trickier aspects of the language that is different than many other languages. Getting the tense of verbs is something that many native speakers of English get wrong from time to time.

What does I won Z? 

And yes I intentionally used the wrong tense in the previous sentence.

So? They give it their best shot. Why should they have to speak English, anyway? Why don't you speak Spanish? See how fun it is to have your Spanish grammar constantly ridiculed whenever you try to ask a serious question or just communicate
Isn't that just the teensiest bit arrogant? I mean, you understand what they mean, why waste thier time? They're here to play and talk, not take English lessons...


Anyway, back on topic.
It's
1. Startling
2. Starling
3. staring
4. string
5. sting
6. sing
7. sin
8. in
9. I

Ta-da!

[bilbous]

A riddle you want, eh?
Do people attempting to learn a language prefer to have syntactical mistakes ignored or do they welcome the occaisional pointer?

[emeraldfool]

A riddle you want, eh?
Do people attempting to learn a language prefer to have syntactical mistakes ignored or do they welcome the occaisional pointer?

That's a good question.
One you should probably ask first, before you correct someone's grammar.
Obviously, different people have different tastes in how they like people to teach them. Some find it helpful, some find it condescending...

[bilbous]

Most people I have talked to have appreciated help when it was offered in a friendly manner. Although they tended to be the ones who were still struggling to get it right and not those who have decided "good enough." I suppose how it is offered is not always a determinant as to how it is received. And I am certain if you were to look through my posts you could find plenty of spelling or grammatical errors, even some that have to do with disagreements in verb tense.

If it was meant as the attack which Zanzibar seemed to take it as (even though it was not directed at him) I would not have stopped at pointing out verb tense. You are probably right in that I could have worded my reply better and avoided misunderstanding.

[hitancrias]

Feel free to point me my spelling or grammer mistakes.
I'll decorate my 200th post with the solution of Kixies riddle.

Hitancrias climbs up the table and tells the people around what happened:
"The blue Enki had a longsword but was killed by the purple shaded Ylian with a claymore. Then this Ylian was killed by the red Kran with a galkard."

[Kixie]

Feel free to point me my spelling or grammer mistakes.
I'll decorate my 200th post with the solution of Kixies riddle.

Hitancrias climbs up the table and tells the people around what happened:
"The blue Enki had a longsword but was killed by the purple shaded Ylian with a claymore. Then this Ylian was killed by the red Kran with a galkard."

Correct 

[zorbels]

Thank you Zanzibar.

BTW My comment was in no way meant as an attack on anyone and if it was perceived as such I apologise. I just thought that as many of the posters here do not speak English natively it was worth pointing out one of the trickier aspects of the language that is different than many other languages. Getting the tense of verbs is something that many native speakers of English get wrong from time to time.

What does I won Z? 

And yes I intentionally used the wrong tense in the previous sentence.

What do you win ... hmmmm ... nothing because you didn't figure out the riddle.   

As for pointing out that "some" players in this community do not speak english as a first language (I am not going to claim I know how many speak english and how many don't here because I don't think anyone truly knows the percentage) .... well I know that. Kind of a common sense thing. This Riddle I posted was from an english class I took in high school and has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I posted it because of that. I didn't really worry about the non speaking english members of this community because this riddle is also all over the net and it is easy to look up the answer. So I really don't see a problem here. I also don't think this is a thread that was meant to get into a debate about different languages, how certain things should be said, spelled, typed ... whatever .. but did I miss something?

* zorbels looks at the title

Nope it is a riddle thread. I guess I didn't miss something.  Anyway, back to the topic .....

It's
1. Startling
2. Starling
3. staring
4. string
5. sting
6. sing
7. sin
8. in
9. I

Ta-da!

  Yay! Congratulations emeraldfool, you have it correct. I find it quite neat that one word can hold so many.

[Radiant Memphis]

I've a few riddles.
1.
It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What am I
2.
Who owns the fish?

Necessary clues:

1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

any riddle posted here can never be used in game try not to make it impossible for me

[bilbous]

I've a few riddles.
1.
It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What am I

nothing,