Its coming up on our co founders birthday actually tomorrow she would have been 56. There was a game that she use to love to play on here and I thought I start it off again since its been so long since it was played. How ever I know Kalleh and Shufitz probably remember the game it was a series of 5 or 6 letters that you had to make a sentence with and then leave 5 or 6 letters for the next person to do the same thing. And so on and so forth. Any one remember what the name of the game was please help out!

I'm gonna start it and I think its only fitting to start with the letters from her name so.....

The game was 6 letters to fun.


MORGAN

So how does it work? Do you make the sentence by using the letters as the first letter of each word in the sentence, like in an Acrostic (maybe that was the name of the game) poem, such as:

More Oldtimers Rate Gold Above Nookie.

Or are you meant to make up a sentence where all the letters are those particular letters (using each letter at least once) like:

ANNA RANG AN ORGAN MAN

?

Morgan was a wonderful friend to both Shu and me, and as angry and bitter said, she was a co-founder of this site. We miss her so much! Hang in there, angry and bitter.

So, as for the game, I didn't remember it, but Shu did. With each letter, you make a word to form a sentence (like your first sentence, Greg). Shu gave me the first sentence to post. The next word should be related in some way:

Mother often reviewed grants at night.

Here's the next word:

Father

Is it a good idea, if the sentence somehow relates, to the word?:

Friend and teacher, he earns respect.

Next Word:

GAMBLE

Greed And Money Be Little Entertainment



next word

POKERS

Please Open Kernels Especially Really Slowly

Next word:

GAMBIT

Great Ambition May Be Inflated Tremendously.

Next Word:

WONDER

Wild Oryxes Never Deposit Excrement Randomly

There, I fixed it.

ANIMAL

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Where's the E in Dung - might have to be Evacuations or Excreta.

Additional Notation In Morgan's Admirable Legacy

MEMORY

Missing Every Minute Of Real Years.



MYMOMS

May your memories of Mother strengthen.

quote:

the game was "6 letters to fun"

...and when it was called that, way back in 2002, it didn't need to be a word, and the players sometimes tried to guess what 6-word sentence was the source of the not-quite-random next six letters. Personally I think the word is better.

haberdasher you forgot the next letters to work off of

Can somebody explain to me how and why in American English (only it would seem), they don't seem to use the expression the rest of the English speaking world use:

Work off
Get up off
Learn off
Spin off

etc.

They have to add the word "of" to it. I don't get it. Where did it come from or how did it happen to be part of everyday expression there only?

quote:

Personally I think the word is better.

Let me rephrase that:

...the word is

BETTER

;-)

Very clever Haberdasher!

Be Everything That They Ever Regretted


And to answer your question Greg I have no idea.



DREAMS

I'm not sure why we add of, Greg, though sometimes we don't. One might say, "Get off the couch!" Or "That show is a spin off." But, you are right that usually we add of.

Beautiful eggs to the Easter Rabbit!

Spring!!!

kalleh's is better so SPRING

off of

According to Wiktionary

quote:

The use of off of as a preposition is now considered tautological and/or incorrect by some usage guides and is not suitable for formal or business use. Off of can be replaced with on or off: "This is based on (based off of) his first book"; "He took a paper off (off of) his desk".

It's not solely a US use; we hear it here, too. It's rather amusing that it can be replaced by on or off - two words with (usually) directly opposite meanings!

Sometimes People Really Irritate Non-Grammarians

PEDANT

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Thanks Arnie,

Person Expecting Deeply Academic Nuances Typically

Next Word: CRETIN

quote:

Can somebody explain to me how and why in American English (only it would seem), they don't seem to use the expression the rest of the English speaking world use:Work offGet up offLearn offSpin off

The same way in which people ask "Where are you at?" when "Where are you?" is sufficient.

And - it's not like one of them ("off" or "off of") is wrong. They're both right.

Arnie, I loved your answer!

Certain riffraff educate to inform Nancy.

School

quote:

School

She chased him over our lawn and she caught him on our lanai. She chewed him out over lewdness and she cuffed him over one eye.

tinker

quote:

tinker

Technologically I'm Not Knowledgeable Enough Really.

Google

google

Grouchy old Oscar got louder everyday.

ramble

Ramble

Really, A Master Butcher Likes Eating

Nation

NATION

Naturally; all this is our nutrition.

NON-VEG

Tinman: kudos four four courses of school!

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it's not like one of them ("off" or "off of") is wrong. They're both right.

And Kalleh - assuming there is a "right" at all in language, which not everyone agrees, they're not both right. "Off of" is wrong, or at least "substandard." Rather than risk hurting feelings or raising arguments, the issue can often be avoided entirely by writing "from" instead.

("Spoken like a prescriptivist," I hear the assembled multitudes cry. "Guilty as charged," sez I.)

Good on yer, Hab!

Much ado about nothing.

NON-VEG
Never, oh never, vile, evil, girl!

I forgot the next word:
timber

quote:

"Off of" is wrong, or at least "substandard."

I thought so too, but wasn't game to say it.

Tree Insults Minor Branch's Early Roots.

Next Word:

INSULT

INSULT

I'll Never Send Unsuitable Letter Texts

ROTTEN

ROTTEN

Regurgitating Offal Tends To Encourage Nausea.

NAUSEA

NAUSEA

Not all underwater swimmers exhale air.
Nine airmen unscrambled several easy anagrams.

DIVERS

quote:

Originally posted by Kalleh:
...it's not like one of them ("off" or "off of") is wrong. They're both right.

I wonder - is there a named linguistic transformation that doubles a sound without changing the meaning of the word? Like Southern US's "Y'all" becoming "Y'all all" ?

I've heard "all y'all," but not "y'all all."

Don't Insult Veronica's Erotic Romances, Sidney.

FLYERS

FLYERS

Friend Leslie's Yacht Easily, Risibly. Sank

LOCKER

quote:

Originally posted by arnie:
FLYERS

Friend Leslie's Yacht Easily, Risibly. Sank

LOCKER

Would that by Davy Jones' locker?

Look, Ollie, Clyde's Kissing Erica's Rear!

BOREAL

BOREAL

Black olives really elevate a luncheon.

STODGY

BOREAL

Boring old reality eats at leisure.

walnut

STODGY

Sticking to old dogmas galvanises you.

WALNUT

Weird anomaly loosens noose until tight.

HANGED

HANGED

Holding A Noose Generally Equals Danger

SOCIAL

SOCIAL

Simply: one cannot improve a library.

[AUTHOR

AUTHOR

Another Undervalued Tome Has One READER.

If somebody at some stage wants to use REIGNS as the next word, I've got a humdinger of a sentence for it.

It just struck me that everyone's number of "Posts" in this thread remains the same no matter how many times they post to it??

Oh sorry no it doesn't! It increases by one with each post in the thread, it is just that it updates the number for each post in the thread, as in I had 637 when I noticed it but 639 now, which will go to 640 the next time, I post to the thread, so all good.