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| Books that should have been movies. (in Potpourri) by BobHale I was listening to an interview where the interviewee mentioned EE “Doc” Smith and it made me think ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri For those not on FB (in The Written Word) by BobHaleAnswers: A Surrealist’s Smorgasbord I was playing with an online AI and I asked it to produce a lis...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Link the Lyrics (in Word Games) by wordcrafterA game: Post a snippet of about four to eight lines of a song lyric. It should include a word or ph...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games *** Words better known in their negative forms (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterA man can unkempt or innocent, but can he be “kempt” or “nocent”? This week we’ll eyeball words of t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Nothing to do with language but (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI have what will probably strike you as a weird question. When you close your eyes and try to visual...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri POLL: KEY WEST (in Wordplay) by bethree51.A vacation in lovely Key West Is for feeling exceedingly stressed It will all melt away On the...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffA linguistic query: Where did these two Greek Orthodox monks do their translation into a Greek-base...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Another acronym query (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffWhat do the various initials affixed to movie makers mean? I see CSA, ASC, and a bunch of others co...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words NGO (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffWhat's an NGO? It's a common acronym, but all I think of is "Non-Gonococcal Outbreak." I doubt tha...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words An even better translation fail (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAnother hilariously bad machine translation (at least I hope that’s what it is) in our local communi...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Can we push past the boring ones? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI am in XiAn for a dental appointment again and took the metro yesterday where I was amused to hear ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick Game: Key West (in Wordplay) by bethree5Well here's another two-parter with stress on second 'syllable' that is much easier to work than Sey...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Machine poetry (in Potpourri) by BobHaleCorresponding with a friend about chatgpt and poetry he used a new word. I don’t know if it was an i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Latin and Grek in biology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffWhile reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, I noticed that at one point she erroneousl...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words An IQ of... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleJust a random thought... only people with an IQ of 140 can understand that games advertised with "on...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri A what? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleCaption from a YouTube video: "Woody Harrelson's in a heap of water after this SNL drug joke." I won...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Kids can be brutal (in Potpourri) by BobHaleIn this week's episode of the UK version of The Apprentice they were given the task of designing a l...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Translation fail (in Potpourri) by GeoffSounds a bit naughty to me.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Translation fail (in Potpourri) by BobHaleTranslation fail: I am in a chat group for my residential community. Obviously it’s in Chinese but w...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Spelling question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleshalln't... shaln't... shan't ? I have always used the first one but the spellchecker insist that o...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words They aren't gerunds, so what are they? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffOften I see "ing" endings on nouns, such as cowling instead of cowl, tubing instead of tube, and cas...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words A question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleThere is a YouTube channel that I sometimes watch that reviews albums and also sometimes looks at th...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words YouTube comment (in The Written Word) by BobHaleJust watched a video about Elon Musk and Twitter. When it was finished I glanced through the comment...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word A question you may not know the answer to... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleWho are the current baseball world champions? And who previously held the title? I'll post the corr...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri A TV Question (in Potpourri) by BobHaleMost US sitcoms are, when you remove all the advertising, around twenty two minutes per episode. In ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri A repost from my FB about The Apprentice (in Potpourri) by BobHaleWell, that's episode one of The Apprentice over. My favourite quote of the episode was the candidate...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Could be damp... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThis one, from a YouTube video about movies, made me laugh out loud. “I will have to dig deep into M...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri And the other 75%... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI admit that I am rather baffled by a statement I heard yesterday on the radio from an NHS spokesman...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Scranton Poll (in Wordplay) by BobHale1. There was a magician in Scranton Who made a good living incantin' But his bladder infected Could ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Anybody in tonight from Scranton? (in Wordplay) by BobHaleI have the next couple of days off because of exams so I propose to post the small collection of Scr...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Puzzled (in Potpourri) by BobHaleFrom a website about epidemics... "At this time, data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Words meaning the opposite (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehShu and I were talking about words that mean the opposite at times, such as terrific or terribly. Y...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words An anatomy question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffIn the Tina Fey movie, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" Fey says, "...I pee out of my vagina..." Do most wom...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words New limerick game: Scranton (in Wordplay) by BobHaleWell we’ll give it a go even if there is no one left to play. In honor of either a) Joe Biden or b)...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Picking candidates (in Potpourri) by GeoffNot word related, but..... I've firured out to pick the best political candied dates: Pick the one...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Attack of The Killer Hamburgers (in Potpourri) by GeoffAn AP headline: Ex-Texas cop charged for shooting teen eating hamburger... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri One right answer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleHere's a question that I have just been asked by a Chinese colleague. She wants to know the best a...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Perth - the candidates (in Wordplay) by haberdasher1. At a kid’s birthday party in Perth A clown who was lacking in mirth Told old jokes, not new That ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Fragmentary sentence in the NYT (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff"Not only do candidates of both major parties in the United States have starkly different views on t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words What is a “person” under the law? (in Potpourri) by shufitzA tree? No. A driver crashed into a tree, and the tree’s owner sued seeking $15,000 for his pain an...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Sea change. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleFrom an ad I keep seeing in my FB feed. "Nanoscience is driving a major sea change in electronics." ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Eras (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleAn era ruled by Elizabeth is Elizabethan An era ruled by George is Georgian An era ruled by Edward i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Beer, pubs and fuel prices. (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAssuming you haven't seen this on my FB. a sort of post about idioms. A few idioms come to mind ......... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri alilex (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehI play Words with Friends with my sister. I often check to see if I got the best word. In a recent...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Con (in Potpourri) by BobHaleOf course I love words, word puzzles, poetry, etymology and anything else connected with words. That...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri next limerick target: PERTH (in Wordplay) by haberdasher...as in Australia. PM me with your verses. (I'll be out of town much of next week so may not be ab...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Language and social class (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Bluffing game: Wherry (in Word Games) by GeoffWho or what is a wherry? PM your daffynitions - or the right one if you know it. Bob and Haberdash...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games Well, duhhhhh... 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