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Aruntraveller

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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #350 on: October 07, 2023, 05:53:21 PM »
I won't bother. They don't seem to understand grammar.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #351 on: October 08, 2023, 06:40:10 AM »
Made a right mess of this one.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #352 on: October 08, 2023, 08:23:12 AM »
I was wrong about 118 - "will" and "may" are both modal verbs, and thus irregular. The New Shorter Oxford and Merriam-Webster online confirmed what two posters on the "Connections" FB group I'm a member of told me. Thank heavens for my lexicographer friends, Miriam Webster and Dick Shonery!
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #353 on: October 08, 2023, 09:29:33 AM »
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #354 on: October 08, 2023, 10:33:17 AM »
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Hmmm... again. One of the purple group doesn't work, being a how example rather than why as the others are. Similarly 1 of the purples feels off, not becauss it's parochial, though it is, but because it's not really a type, and the others are.

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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #355 on: October 08, 2023, 12:04:54 PM »
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got there in the end.

I don't think any of the purple don't fit, although I do understand why you might think not.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #356 on: October 08, 2023, 12:24:46 PM »
Quote from: SteveH on October 08, 2023, 08:23:12 AM
I was wrong about 118 - "will" and "may" are both modal verbs, and thus irregular. The New Shorter Oxford and Merriam-Webster online confirmed what two posters on the "Connections" FB group I'm a member of told me. Thank heavens for my lexicographer friends, Miriam Webster and Dick Shonery!
I didn't think it was wrong because they are irregular but using because they didn't consistently use the base verb, which I think they need to, and then used different parts of the verb.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #357 on: October 08, 2023, 01:23:37 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2023, 10:33:17 AM
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Hmmm... again. One of the purple group doesn't work, being a how example rather than why as the others are. Similarly 1 of the purples feels off, not becauss it's parochial, though it is, but because it's not really a type, and the others are.
I think you're over-thinking the purple. They are just words that can go in front of "opera": their grammatical function is irrelevant.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #358 on: October 08, 2023, 01:44:07 PM »
Quote from: SteveH on October 08, 2023, 01:23:37 PM
I think you're over-thinking the purple. They are just words that can go in front of "opera": their grammatical function is irrelevant.
I see I've written purple twice!!! Eejit that I am. The first one should be yellow in which I think 1 is wrong.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #359 on: October 08, 2023, 03:47:58 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2023, 01:44:07 PM
I see I've written purple twice!!! Eejit that I am. The first one should be yellow in which I think 1 is wrong.

Do we all have the same "1"?

Of my yellows, I think you could argue that 3 doesn't quite fit.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #360 on: October 08, 2023, 04:34:24 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on October 08, 2023, 03:47:58 PM
Do we all have the same "1"?

Of my yellows, I think you could argue that 3 doesn't quite fit.

I think we're looking at it from opposite ends.

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It says celebratory occasions and the four are Anniversary, Birthdaty, Shower, Wedding. If you read that as occasions you celebrate then Shower doesn't work. If you read it as things you do to celebrate events, then Shower works but the others with the arguable exception of Wedding don't.


I think you're meant to get confused with the relationship of Wedding and Reception from the Phone Group, and Shower and Reception. Sadly I think they've just confused themselves
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #361 on: October 08, 2023, 05:13:51 PM »
I hink this may be a case of two nations divided by a common language.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_shower
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #362 on: October 08, 2023, 05:22:19 PM »
Quote from: SteveH on October 08, 2023, 05:13:51 PM
I hink this may be a case of two nations divided by a common language.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_shower
No, I know what a baby shower is. It's an event to celebrate the upcoming birth. A 'birthday' or an anniversary are things you would have an event to celebrate. A wedding can arguably be both, though the equivalent to a baby shower would generally be a wedding reception, hence the 'reception' use in the grid hoping to confuse.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #363 on: October 08, 2023, 06:58:15 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 08, 2023, 04:34:24 PM
I think we're looking at it from opposite ends.

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It says celebratory occasions and the four are Anniversary, Birthdaty, Shower, Wedding. If you read that as occasions you celebrate then Shower doesn't work. If you read it as things you do to celebrate events, then Shower works but the others with the arguable exception of Wedding don't.


I think you're meant to get confused with the relationship of Wedding and Reception from the Phone Group, and Shower and Reception. Sadly I think they've just confused themselves

Shower is the one I thought might be out of place. The others are all reasons to celebrate. A shower is a way to celebrate.

I think we are over analysing this, tbh.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #364 on: October 09, 2023, 07:41:13 AM »
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I got yellow easily - in fact, I thought the category was more precise than it was. I had no idea with blue and purple, though.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #365 on: October 09, 2023, 09:23:20 AM »
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Was an idiot on the firsr one but then everything made sense
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #366 on: October 09, 2023, 09:39:37 AM »
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In the green category, I have never heard of one of those used in that way.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #367 on: October 09, 2023, 10:56:02 AM »
Couldn't even get started today

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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #368 on: October 10, 2023, 01:02:25 AM »
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« Reply #369 on: October 10, 2023, 06:31:29 AM »
Yellow was easy again, but I had no idea after that. I should have got green.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #370 on: October 10, 2023, 09:01:26 AM »
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I got blue by default. I had no idea.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #371 on: October 10, 2023, 09:47:03 AM »
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Blue nearly got me.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #372 on: October 11, 2023, 12:24:35 AM »
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« Reply #373 on: October 11, 2023, 06:46:44 AM »
A fairly easy one - nice change after the last two. I'd've never got purple, though, because two must be Americanisms.
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Re: A new word game....
« Reply #374 on: October 11, 2023, 08:28:32 AM »

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I agree, much easier. There was only one in the purple category I was unfamiliar with.
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