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Post by BSam on Jan 31, 2014 8:51:28 GMT -5
hahah yowies
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Post by B. on Jan 31, 2014 11:32:24 GMT -5
Xylophone: A word which here means whatever you want it to mean, apparently. I think that using "xylophone" would be a great callback, but this definition was totally an example and I can take it or leave it - you might want to come up with an actual definition for it as an adjective. Any takers? I really liked this one (perhaps because it's the only definition I've bothered to read). The "apparently" makes it sound a little unfitting, and not so dictionary formal, but then again also adds to the humour and joke. Keep it.
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Post by Dante on Jan 31, 2014 12:32:46 GMT -5
Are the defenitions going to be illustrated? As many as people wish to, yes. Although, in a sense, not many illustrations would be better than lots, because if we had, say, twenty-two illustrations then that would be a nice smattering, but if we had forty-two it would seem as if we just ran out of time to do all of them. I'm not sure what you mean by that. The joke is that a sharp pain in the right side is something very serious that should be checked up on immediately, and the doctor is shrugging off the patient as some kind of hypochondriac. It seems like something serious, but it would also be possible for a hypochondriac to have exaggerated and it being only a harmless stitch or something. It would just lend itself to go over the top to really drive the sarcasm home, and say something like "(...) who kept whining about a pair of garden scissors in his chest." Just as an example. Terry pretty much hits on my problem here, which is that I didn't realise it was a joke. People have pains everywhere all the time that don't mean anything. Stitches, as Terry Craig says, or cramps. If you went to the doctor for every one of them you'd be a total hypochondriac. Although, to unify my post, this might be a good spot for a complementary illustration of someone with a pair of garden scissors in his chest. In any case, based on present responses, it looks like we could be done within a few days, or have enough results to consider ourselves potentially finished.
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Post by bandit on Jan 31, 2014 12:38:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I tried to think of something extreme but didn't think of using a physical impairment. I really like the garden scissors one, if we use the word we should use that for the example sentence.
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Post by Q.R.V. on Jan 31, 2014 16:24:40 GMT -5
Some more, if any are needed.
Battology: a needless, unnecessary, and superfluous repetition or reiteration of words, phrases, or ideas in speaking and writing.
Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant battology, and people have heard it before.
Biblioclasm: a terrible tragedy, often promulgated, as so many tragedies are, by fire.
A certain dystopian novel about non-volunteer firemen uses biblioclasm as an extended metaphor for the triumph of villainy over the well-read.
Ebeneous: pertaining to a black, very shiny, rare, and valuable species of wood.
It was an ebeneous collection, full of shiny black statues of unicorns and other fabulous monsters.
Galère: (1) a group of people having a common attribute or interest, such as a hidden tattoo or a noble cause. (2) an unpleasant situation, such as discovering all the treachery that can fester within a group of people.
The galère of pirates plotted mutiny in the galley.
Jeroboam: an oversized wine bottle containing the equivalent of four normal bottles, permitting second-rate actors to hog even more wine instead of sharing with their acting troops.
The empty jeroboams rolled around the trunk of his car, clanking against the concealed journalist’s head quite painfully.
Jow: the toll or stroke of a bell
Ask not for whom the bell jows; it jows for thee.
Tyrotoxism: poisoning by cheese or other dairy products.
Dear Dairy,
Vaniloquence: foolish discourse.
When I complained about my chaperone’s vaniloquence, she accused me of being persnickety.
Yepsen: the amount of liquid, diamonds, or broken promises that can be held in two hands cupped together.
One yepsen of root beer and two scoops of vanilla ice cream, shaken not stirred.
Zymurgy: the study of fermentation, a process in which brandy and birthdays just keep getting better with time.
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Post by Dante on Feb 1, 2014 11:04:03 GMT -5
At this point, we're probably all set, but I'll have a little extra time free to review the situation on Tuesday, and I'll probably go through everything then and put together a provisional Snicktionary and to-do list. If anyone wants to update theirs or help out with anything, though, feel free. Well done, all.
(The zymurgy callback tickled me, also.)
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Post by Miss Librarian on Feb 1, 2014 17:47:54 GMT -5
I have an issue with clarity. Is this clear?
apoplectic - (adj.) an emotional state of anger often after a confusing episode "The customer was apoplectic after the waiter bit his nose instead of taking his order."
evil - (n.) the eve of an ill-event, usually frightening since one cannot fathom the consequences "The recent shipwrecks near the docks told sailors there was a watery evil beneath the waves."
stringer - (n.) a volunteer journalist who publishes truths infrequently "The stringer safely delivered his article to the newspaper before it was destroyed by a nefarious official."
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Post by Dante on Feb 2, 2014 9:48:13 GMT -5
Your use of "evil" appears to be slightly non-standard - not wrong, but just not the obvious answer - but the other two are quite good. Thank you for contributing; I'd like to use submissions from as many members as possible, so I'm glad you could think of something.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 2, 2014 21:09:50 GMT -5
chiropterologist (n)- A person, often one of beauty who trains bats to detect fire, recommend books and the undertaking of finding lost tea set pieces. He was about to inform that chiropterologist was a better suited word than 'baticeer' but was at that moment eaten by a hungry donkey Ditto. Maybe not a donkey, though. Perhaps a giant chiropteran? I normally like randomness, but I agree that a giant bat would be funnier in this case. A donkey forces the randomness a bit too much. Btw I may have already started doing an illustration to this featuring a giant bat I would also like to contribute the illustration to bandit's valetudinarian with the garden scissors unless anybody's fervent to do it
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Post by Dante on Feb 3, 2014 6:31:55 GMT -5
I like that your idea of "randomness" proposes a donkey as a less probable existence than a giant bat...
In any case, this is all the more impetus to me to devote tomorrow to constructing a putative final list - at the very least the final selection, though likely not yet in their final form. I hope that people will soon be able to decide where and what they would like to illustrate, what options are available.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 3, 2014 7:50:27 GMT -5
well thematically a giant bat isn't random, since it's about a chiropterologist/baticeer, and couldn't have less to do with donkeys (much less carnivorous ones). As a Monty Python sketch it would work, though.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 3, 2014 9:25:23 GMT -5
Antagonist: A person, object or event that, like an allergy, can appear at any time and spoil everything, even when one thinks one is well-protected. and/or Rectangle: A complicated mess created by someone for their own entertainment in an idle moment.
OK, so I hope you'll be able to put in a least one of these. A thousand apologies for being so late to the party. The first is more of a correct definition, whereas the second is a case of thinking about what putting "rec" and "tangle" in a word together could mean.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Feb 3, 2014 9:33:29 GMT -5
Supercalifragilisticexpiallidocious:(unknown) A very annoying word often sung in tune. Is crucial in sesquipedalian (look up sesquipedalian, s.) Probably will be used by Mr. Snicket. We don't really know, but this is just a fan theory.
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Post by Hermes on Feb 3, 2014 11:59:13 GMT -5
Sorry to be so late: I've been trying to think of something and been quite unable to, but it occurs to me there is actually a word I have contributed to this fandom, so may I submit this.
Snicketologist: an obsessive student of enigmatic works of children's fiction.
(Feel free to amend as appropriate. Sorry, too, for submitting a word beginning with s.)
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 3, 2014 12:24:44 GMT -5
Rectangle: A complicated mess created by someone for their own entertainment in an idle moment. OK, so I hope you'll be able to put in a least one of these. A thousand apologies for being so late to the party. The first is more of a correct definition, whereas the second is a case of thinking about what putting "rec" and "tangle" in a word together could mean. I like both, but the rectangle one I couldn't figure out without you explaining it. Maybe it's better to use the words tangle and recreation in the definition, like "A tangle, or complicated mess, created by someone for recreational purposes." Maybe it's just me who didn't get it at first, though.
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