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picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 13, 2007
11:41 PM Post #3279177
| This is a game where we get to make up non-words. For example why does "inept" exist in English, but not "ept"? Why not "gruntled" if we've got "disgruntled"? "Snert" is certainly possible phonetically. And "affluction" and so many others!
Rules:
Invent a word that is phonetically possible in English, but does not exist.
The word cannot be in the dictionary.
Use it in a sentence.
(By the way, this is a good way to amuse yourselves if you're bored with regular Scrabble.)
This game may be too nonsensical for some people's taste. If you'd like to propose additional rules, please do. (Perhaps something to link one person's post to the next.) |
picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 13, 2007
11:46 PM Post #3279193
| OK, here goes:
signonomy
My dear, don't you think there are too many signonomies in this poem? That's Poe for you, isn't it? |
picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
12:32 PM Post #3280466
| No takers yet on this game, and it seems too open-ended to me. So I've got another "bright idea" (as my mother calls them). We'll make this look like a gardening forum. So here's the new rule:
Make up your non-existent word and ask for or offer gardening advice about it. The next person can respond, using their non-existent word.
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picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
12:37 PM Post #3280482
| Here goes, then:
I've had no luck trying to grow *drupids*. This is my fourth try, and they're turning brown. Is it fertilizer burn? Need some advice from you experienced drupid-growers. Please help. |
Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
March 14, 2007
12:38 PM Post #3280484
| Last December we decorated the christmas tree.
Looking for some tips on recorating it.
We also demolished an old shed, and would like to molish a new one.
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Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
March 14, 2007
12:40 PM Post #3280491
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| Quoted: | | This is my fourth try, and they're turning brown. Is it fertilizer burn? Need some advice from you experienced drupid-growers |
Most likely, they've been peed on by quadrupids . . .
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Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
March 14, 2007
12:45 PM Post #3280503
| I've got some fish, but the local fishmonger monged them. What should I do?
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picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
1:04 PM Post #3280850
| Resin, I'm notoriously bad with recoration, but my DH is an expert molisher of sheds. Is it a garden shed? I'm assuming that you want it sightly and kempt, and that's why you demolished the old one? Do you want it overkempt? |
Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
March 14, 2007
1:08 PM Post #3280861
| The old one was dishevelled. I just want the new one to be suitably hevelled.
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picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
1:11 PM Post #3280869
| Quadrupids! I didn't think we had any around here. Aren't they recturnal? |
Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
March 14, 2007
1:11 PM Post #3280871
| Remember the Microsoft Word grammar checker?
When it came up against 'not unified' it prompted:
"Double negative. Try 'ified'."
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picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
1:15 PM Post #3280885
| Resin, do you know anyone with a heveller you can borrow? My DH has one, but that's of no use to you. It's not in youtric units. |
Resin
Northumberland
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 9a)
March 14, 2007
1:42 PM Post #3280981
| Actually, I was understating a bit, the shed got burnt down, in two arson episodes. We extinguished it the first time, but they came back and intinguished it again.
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picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
2:37 PM Post #3281140
| They reintinguished it? Boy were they determined! You weren't around the second time, I take it, or you would have termined the vermin! |
summerkid
Kankakee, IL
(Zone 5b)
March 14, 2007
8:24 PM Post #3282139
| Is it disintinguished for good? |
picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
11:19 PM Post #3282864
| Hmmm. I wonder if it was ever guished to begin with. |
picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
March 14, 2007
11:22 PM Post #3282877
| Question about snoppets: How do you cut them up? With a monger? |
gldandrews
Andrews, NC
(Zone 6a)
April 19, 2007
1:06 PM Post #3409127
| Will a moose return to the herd of Meese? |
skaz421
Wesley Chapel, FL
(Zone 9a)
April 21, 2007
4:27 PM Post #3416208
| No, Meese don't travel in groups - they're inherdable. |
skaz421
Wesley Chapel, FL
(Zone 9a)
April 21, 2007
5:28 PM Post #3416439
| You can cut snippets of snoppets with a very sharp misketee. If it's not sharp enough, you'll just end up with slopetts. |
PotEmUp
Fremont, CA
(Zone 9a)
April 26, 2007
7:36 AM Post #3432948
| In order to really be gender correct, it should be herterectomy and hisnia.
Lately I have been suffering from disattachmentitus by forgetting to attach the attachment to my e-mails. |
lauriwilson
Caistor
(United Kingdom)
(Zone 8b)
May 4, 2007
5:37 AM Post #3461827
| LOL
I have to ask if there are loner Meese how does one get a Meeses and Moosters?? |
picante
Helena, MT
(Zone 4b)
May 17, 2007
5:24 PM Post #3508398
| Meeses and Moosters make moslings.
Geeses and Goosters make goslings.
Moslings and goslings eat similarly,
Submersing their noses to munch on the plantlings. |
PotEmUp
Fremont, CA
(Zone 9a)
May 17, 2007
8:56 PM Post #3509050
| The english language, condensed:
----------------------------------------------------
M R Ducks
M R Not
O S A R, C M Wangs?
L I B, M R Ducks!
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M R Mice
M R Not
O S A R, C M E D B D Feet?
L I B, M R Mice!
---------------------------------------------------
M R Snakes
M R Not
O S A R, C M B D Is?
L I B, M R Snakes!
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tyvm |
Gardengirl1204
Richmond, VA
(Zone 7a)
May 18, 2007
8:46 AM Post #3510441
| OK, here's my word based on the original request of a word not in the dictionary:
Touron = tourist / moron - I grew up in Va Beach and all summer long the "tourons" were all over the place! :) |
