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May 10, 2012, 16:43
Geoff
Three different bluffing games?
We've just had a regular definition game (potto), an item description game(Brannock Device), and some while ago Bob suggested an etymology game. Might we get each one going? I'd like to give Bob's suggestion a go, but don't want to discontinue the others. Can we have three games simultaneously? "What is it?" is a good name for Proofreader's game, but I've forgotten what name Bob suggested for his.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
May 10, 2012, 18:52
BobHale
I like your idea Geoff. I'd love to try the etymology game but when it was suggested before the overwhelming tide of total apathy almost drowned me.

What about it people.
How do we feel about having

Bluffing Game
What Is It?
and
Where did I come from? (A faux-etymology game)

as separate games?


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
May 10, 2012, 19:53
<Proofreader>
I have at least one more subject for the "What Is It?" game. So I'm up for another go-round.
May 11, 2012, 02:07
arnie
Ahem. I thought of the etymology game and posted about it here, but at the time its reception seemed rather luke-warm so it went no further. I'll start a new thread with a word shortly since there seems more interest now.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
May 11, 2012, 05:23
wordmatic
What Is It and Etymology Game are each just the Bluffing Game with a different focus. Sure. We might get tied up in knots over the etymology game, and possibly only a few in this group are qualified to post really good fake answers, but it might be really funny. Sure, I'll try them all.

Wordmatic
May 11, 2012, 06:17
BobHale
quote:
Originally posted by arnie:
Ahem. I thought of the etymology game and posted about it here, but at the time its reception seemed rather luke-warm so it went no further. I'll start a new thread with a word shortly since there seems more interest now.


And I did express my support at the time I think.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
May 11, 2012, 08:10
bethree5
ditto
(etym: Morse Code echoic word ref 'dit-dah'.......NOT!)
May 11, 2012, 08:43
<Proofreader>
quote:
(etym: Morse Code echoic word ref 'dit-dah'.......NOT!)


ditto 1620s, Tuscan dial. ditto “(in) the said (month or year),” literary It. detto, pp. of dire “to say,” from L. dicere (see diction). Originally used in Italian to avoid repetition of month names in a series of dates; generalized meaning of “same as above” first recorded in English 1670s. Dittohead, self-description of followers of U.S. radio personality Rush Limbaugh, attested by 1995. dittoship is from 1869.
May 12, 2012, 05:53
Geoff
quote:
Originally posted by arnie:
Ahem. I thought of the etymology game


Oops! So you did! I regret the error. I do hope it's a success!

Geoff the mortified, humiliated, and ashamed Frown


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti