Game: Word of the Day: 2

[P'ter]

I don't feel authorative enough to call these 'rules'; so ...

Suggested Procedures

1. I, or my duly appointed ‘locum tenens’, will post a word or two each day (real life permitting). We will give any variations of meaning or grammar part (e.g. if the word is both adjective and noun).

2. You will write a sentence to show that you know the meaning: for this you get one point.

3. If you manage to use the word a number of times in your sentence showing the use of different meanings and grammar parts: you score a point for each variation.

4. If your sentence is about an Anne character or incident: you score a bonus.

5. If your sentence is a riddle not actually naming the character or incident: you get one for the riddle AND another bonus if somebody correctly deduces the answer. (N.B. the first person to post the correct answer ALSO gets a point.)

e.g.1: (by Cheryl) “I hoped they'd find some exculpatory evidence and clear my name soon...”

This uses exculpatory once and thus scores 1.

e.g.2: “She needed support pecuniary (i)
And she needed it pecuniary (ii).
To buy their aliment (iv)
She needed the aliment (v);
So her lawyer writ him pecuniary (iii).

1. Relating to money; monetary.
2. Consisting of money.
3. Requiring payment of money.
4. (archaic) food; nourishment;
5. (Scots Law) maintenance; alimony.

(Irene Teasey: Kilternan Legacy)”

This uses pecuniary three different ways and aliment two different ways: so that scores 5.
It is a riddle and was answered correctly: making a grand total of 7!

N.B. This does not happen often! Somebody happily claiming two or three points a day may land up points ahead of the smart ass (me) fighting for inspiration.

If you want to make your contribution into a rhyme: do so.

It does not HAVE to be a limerick. It can be a rhyming couplet, a seventeen syllable Japanese style Haiku, or a grand epic (though writing something as long as Childe Harold to explain a single word may be looked on as overkill).

If you need help: ask! (if you are shy, try P. M’ing me. And I’m pretty sure that Sandi and Brenda will also help if asked.)

[P'ter]

fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective:

1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation.
2. Interchangeable.

noun:
1. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural.

[Sandi]

**Brushes rust off rhyming muse**

Ok, here goes:

In order to be a fungible
It must be made quite fungible
And cut in a set
With brackets well set
Or else it will not be fungible.

[mawra]

rank cords are very fungible with another otf the same rank & craft/hold.

My fire lizard is not fungible
she is one of a kindible
My runner beast is stupidible
& easily fungible

I know not the best in the world

[Sandi]

Maw. Piemur?

I forgot to make a sentence

[P'ter]

Maw: I thought you said you couldn't do this? Looks a perfectly good three to me.

[Sandi]

Well, if my guess is right, wouldn't that make it a 4-pointer?


By the way, are any points awarded for guessing correctly?

[P'ter]

Sandi: good 2nd question. I HAD looked at it as rewarding the poser of the riddle for making it solvable. (we had a few last time that nobody got) I'll amend the procedures.

1st question: I had Maw scoring 3 for the poem: fungible used twice but in one sense, riddle & answer; which is what I was refering to. However, I'll conceed that she used it in two senses, But her TOTAL is 5 'cos she gets 1 for her earlier sentence.


yen \, noun:

1. A strong desire or inclination; a longing.

2. Unit of Japanese coinage.

intransitive verb:

1. To have a strong desire or inclination; to long.


Okay amended 'suggested procedures' in place.

[P'ter]

To meet her I've a definite yen,
I even know where and when,
By boat and by bus
I'll get there (I guess)
At least I won't have to spend Yen.

Sorry about the rotten assonance

[mawra]

Yes piemur

my dragon & I have a yen
to meet a young woman
down by the river
if she has the same yen
then we might both have
a yen for a roll in the mud
while my dragon's yen for a swim
is met.

[Sandi]

P'ter, I'm guessing Anne McCaffrey?

Maw, Jaxom & Ruth and Corana?

Somebody needs to guess mine cause I'm getting way behind!

[Sandi]

I yened to return to this thread
Cause I have a yen to be read,
But I won't charge a fee,
My rhymes are all free
And I don't know the exchange rate for yen.

For an alien she had a yen
Not caring what he had been,
She did yen to seduce him
And other folk used him
For gains they could not pay with yen.

[P'ter]

Sandi: an optherian crystal organ. (and yes Anne)

[Sandi]

Close, but I didn't mean the organ.

[P'ter]

In THAT case: black crystal?

[Sandi]

Well, I meant crystal in general but Black makes sense too!

[mawra]

@ sandi the first one was it a wall scones

Yes mine was Jaxom, Ruth & corana

[P'ter]

cozen, transitive verb:

1. To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by petty tricks.
2. To obtain by deceit.

intransitive verb:

1. To act deceitfully.

miscellanea, plural noun:

miscellaneous items, especially literary compositions, that have been collected together.

[Sandi]

@ Maw, no it was Ballybran crystal

Though he didn't intend to cozen
The book the healing info was in
Soaking miscellanea
and other extranea
He soon had to lament his cozen.

Not exactly my best, I know

[P'ter]

plangent, adjective:

1. Beating with a loud or deep sound, as, "the plangent wave."
2. Expressing sadness; plaintive.

[P'ter]

Sandi: that's one Maw should get.

[Sandi]

The seasonal gales were plangent
Inhabitants hid from them, plangent.
When the winds did abate
They looked for their stakes,
Hoping to find the right tangent.
Singers and Mach Storms

@ P'ter. I hope so. I noticed nobody wanted to comment on my obvious dig for points!

[P'ter]

impassible, adjective:

1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain.
2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling.

[P'ter]

impassible, adjective:

1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain.
2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling.

Sandi: why did you add the answer to your latest?

[mawra]

I am realy realy BAD at figuring out these thing. I am o.k. at thing some up not good at solving them

[Sandi]

Originally Posted by P'ter

impassible, adjective:

1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain.
2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling.

Sandi: why did you add the answer to your latest?

I didn't mean to. I was posting in a hurry and it was a copy & paste accident.

[mawra]

The way was impassible
for all except a small one
with wings smaller than a dragon's
with a friend on her back she made
the impassible passible by going between
to rescue the trapped ones

[mawra]

Sandi was your last one from the Chrystal Singer? If so I should tell you that I have never read them.

[Sandi]

@ Maw, yes it was. When you have a chance you should give them a shot, at least the first two But the one before was Pern and so is this one:

By nature, he seemed impassible
But at times he was almost irascible
He seemed without fear
And when danger drew near
He proved himself quite impassible.

I'm struggling with yours, though. Is it one of Todd's stories?

[mawra]

It is one of Todds

is yours F'lar

[Sandi]

No, not F'lar but it's a character he knows. I'm guessing yours is Nuella and Nuelsk.

[mawra]

Yes Sandi. is your F'nor

[mawra]

Sandi in the cozen one are you talking about Reidis?

[P'ter]

Saturday:

panjandrum, noun:

An important personage or pretentious official.

[Sandi]

Originally Posted by mawofone

Sandi in the cozen one are you talking about Reidis?

No, but you're getting close. Someone else in the same time period who liked dolphins.

[Sandi]

He was a bit of a panjandrum.
And he quoted rules ad naseum
So she did resent
The time that he spent
Making her life into tedium.

My compy is really acting up. I can barely stay online long enough to post. Of course, it couldn't be any problem with EarthStink!

[mawra]

Sandi was it the brown's rider, I can't rember his name, who actualy barowed the healer's book.

[Sandi]

You're almost there, Maw!

[P'ter]

ne plus ultra , noun:

1. The highest point, as of excellence or achievement; the acme; the pinnacle; the ultimate.
2. The most profound degree of a quality or condition.

[mawra]

I did not mean brown I ment bronz dragon T'lon or something like that.

She writes about worlds unknown
except to her & her fans
Her fans are world wide
She is ne plus ultra
While others only try
She has seceeded
She is most truely
ne plus ultra


P.S P"ter when are you leaving us to our own devises?