Kornelius Posted May 21, 2022 Report Share Posted May 21, 2022 This section clearly died, so I figured to try and breathe small life into it with a word game (this might permanently kill it too). It works by one person beginning with a word, such as duck, and the next person must say a word using the end letter of the previous word, in this case k, for example kilogram. Rules: 1. Must be in English, seeing as most of us know more English words than in other languages. 2. Words may not be repeated, as this causes a loop. 3. You may not use offensive or sexual words, acronyms (e.g. DUI), or loanwords (e.g. coup d'etat, encore, or anything Latin). 4. Forum rules are still in full effect. If the rule is broken the word can be considered void and the next player can put a word of their choosing as the new start. I will start off with: sphincter 1 Link to comment
RoseTyler Posted May 22, 2022 Report Share Posted May 22, 2022 Robot (Good idea for a game! I like it) Link to comment
p1cco Posted May 23, 2022 Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 On 5/21/2022 at 7:26 PM, Kornelius said: This section clearly died, so I figured to try and breathe small life into it with a word game (this might permanently kill it too). It works by one person beginning with a word, such as duck, and the next person must say a word using the end letter of the previous word, in this case k, for example kilogram. Rules: 1. Must be in English, seeing as most of us know more English words than in other languages. 2. Words may not be repeated, as this causes a loop. 3. You may not use offensive or sexual words, acronyms (e.g. DUI), or loanwords (e.g. coup d'etat, encore, or anything Latin). 4. Forum rules are still in full effect. If the rule is broken the word can be considered void and the next player can put a word of their choosing as the new start. I will start off with: sphincter Hi there! In Romania we call this game "fazan" which basically translates to "pheasant" - not sure why it's called like this, to be honest. In any case, there is a difference: the next word starts with the last two letters of the previous one so for example, my response to sphincter would be error (interesting choice of words haha) Link to comment
Kornelius Posted May 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2022 Interesting, I guess avoiding boredom has similar methods in all languages I originally played it using names only, but expanded it because I know so few names. Either way, the aim is to use the last letter of the word posted by the previous guy, so I will see your error and raise you a refrigerator Link to comment
p1cco Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 The idea of using two letters is that you can also win the round. For example, in Romanian, you win by using the word “restaurant” because we don’t have anything in our language which starts with “nt” Link to comment
Dragon Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 (edited) did you guys just ignore rose... demotions all around a word with the C, lemme ehm Check *quick edit, did not see things right.. woops* Edited May 29, 2022 by Dragon 1 Link to comment
Helena Revan Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 Little concerned about the "loanwords" rule, because a lot of those words are perfectly normal English—if we exclude all words that come from another language, we'd have to exclude close to 60% of all English words, because that's how much of English comes from other languages—chiefly French, Greek, and Latin. For example, "tetrahedron" and "sphincter" are Greek, "robot" is Czech, "refrigerator", "romantic", and "error" are Latin, "restaurant" is French—and technically so is "check". So maybe that rule should be eliminated for words that are "naturalized" in English! I'll go with kangaroo! Spoiler 2 Link to comment
RoseTyler Posted June 3, 2022 Report Share Posted June 3, 2022 On 5/29/2022 at 9:52 PM, Dragon said: did you guys just ignore rose... demotions all around 😂 Thanks for having my back there, Dragon! Link to comment
Kornelius Posted June 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 The point is well made. I think the loanwords can be constrained to those that are just clearly not naturalized, so something like restaurant is fine because it is common English. The last 2 letter version can be another version of the game in future. yellow Link to comment
Helena Revan Posted June 8, 2022 Report Share Posted June 8, 2022 rototiller! Spoiler Link to comment
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