| Author | Message | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 800 Registered: 12-2007 |
I've made up a new verb -- it's called altching. Sometimes I happen to altch several times in a day, but never during sleep. Some other times I don't altch for days. When I altch, I often look around. How does one altch? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1405 Registered: 12-2010 |
Do you altch on purpose? Or is it something you have no control over? Do you look around to make sure someone sees you? To make sure nobody sees you? Or do you look at a certain person? object? Do other people altch, too? Men? Women? Adults? Teenagers? Children? Do you need any items to altch? Does it involve eating? drinking? communication? movement? Does it involve seeing? hearing? tasting? smelling? touching? Do you altch indoors? outdoors? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 802 Registered: 12-2007 |
Do you altch on purpose? No. Or is it something you have no control over? Correct. Do you look around to make sure someone sees you? To make sure nobody sees you? Or do you look at a certain person? object? This-ish, no to the rest. Do other people altch, too? Men? Women? Adults? Teenagers? Children? All of them. Do you need any items to altch? No. Does it involve eating? drinking? communication? movement? None of these, really. Does it involve seeing? A bit of this, no to the rest. hearing? tasting? smelling? touching? Do you altch indoors? outdoors? Both. | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 757 Registered: 7-2010 |
So altching sort of involves looking at some kind of object but you don't need any items to altch... So wouldn't you call the object an item because ...it's too big? ...too far away? ...not tangible? Do you look at ...the sky? ...the sun/moon/stars? ...the landscape? ...water? ...a building? ...any part of your own body? Don't you have any control over it because ...you do it out of a reflex? ...you have a problem with controlling your eye movements (like squinting when you're tired)? ...whatever you look at is so big that you have to see it at some point, whether you want to or not? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 803 Registered: 12-2007 |
So altching sort of involves looking at some kind of object but you don't need any items to altch... So wouldn't you call the object an item because ...it's too big? ...too far away? ...not tangible? FA to all. Do you look at ...the sky? Could be. ...the sun/moon/stars? Could be. No to rest. ...the landscape? ...water? ...a building? ...any part of your own body? Don't you have any control over it because ...you do it out of a reflex? Yes-ish. ...you have a problem with controlling your eye movements (like squinting when you're tired)? No, but OTRT. ...whatever you look at is so big that you have to see it at some point, whether you want to or not? No. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1417 Registered: 12-2010 |
Do you do it during a special time of day? If so, morning? noon? afternoon? evening? night? Do you do it as a reaction to something? Does it involve [LTPF list of body parts]? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 761 Registered: 7-2010 |
Is seeing things through your peripheral vision relevant? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 804 Registered: 12-2007 |
Doriana: Do you do it during a special time of day? No, but... If so, morning? noon? afternoon? evening? night? ...rarely during the night. Do you do it as a reaction to something? Yope. Does it involve [LTPF list of body parts]? Your head and your chest. Potato: Is seeing things through your peripheral vision relevant? No. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1431 Registered: 12-2010 |
Wild guess, sneezing when you look into the sun? Is sneezing relevant? Coughing? Does altching produce a sound? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 805 Registered: 12-2007 |
Wild guess, sneezing when you look into the sun? No but very much in the right forest. Is sneezing relevant? Yes! Coughing? No. Does altching produce a sound? No. | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 765 Registered: 7-2010 |
The reflex of having to close your eyes when you sneeze? Is hay fever relevant? Having to sneeze due to temperature/light/air differences? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 806 Registered: 12-2007 |
The reflex of having to close your eyes when you sneeze? Alas, no. Is hay fever relevant? Having to sneeze due to temperature/light/air differences? All these could be relevant. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1458 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is not having a tissue or handkerchief relevant? Sneezing into your sleeve? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 777 Registered: 7-2010 |
Trying to avoid a sneeze? Getting moist eyes after sneezing? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1763 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is it relevant what makes you sneeze? or how (if at all) you try and prevent spreading germs? Is it relevant how many sneezes there are in a row? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 807 Registered: 12-2007 |
Doriana: Is not having a tissue or handkerchief relevant? Sneezing into your sleeve? No to both. Potato: Trying to avoid a sneeze? This is in the right forest, but... Getting moist eyes after sneezing? ...no to both. Biograd: Is it relevant what makes you sneeze? or how (if at all) you try and prevent spreading germs? Is it relevant how many sneezes there are in a row? No to all. | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 784 Registered: 7-2010 |
Is altching doing something before you sneeze? While you sneeze? In between several sneezes? After you sneeze? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 808 Registered: 12-2007 |
Is altching doing something before you sneeze? This. While you sneeze? In between several sneezes? After you sneeze? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1470 Registered: 12-2010 |
Looking away from a person so that you don't sneeze in his/her direction? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 809 Registered: 12-2007 |
Looking away from a person so that you don't sneeze in his/her direction? No. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1765 Registered: 6-2008 |
Sniffling mucus in your stuffed-up nose? (sorry I couldn't think of a way to say that without painting a gross picture) Is it something one does with the face? the breath? the hands? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 919 Registered: 2-2011 |
is it getting your hanky out so that you can sneeze into it? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 786 Registered: 7-2010 |
Does it involve looking around to see if people are near you? And based on that, you decide whether you sneeze ot try to avoid it? Or whether you sniff the mucus or seek a hanky? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 810 Registered: 12-2007 |
Biograd: Sniffling mucus in your stuffed-up nose? (sorry I couldn't think of a way to say that without painting a gross picture) No. Yuck. Is it something one does with the face? Yes-ish. the breath? Not really. the hands? No. Shez: is it getting your hanky out so that you can sneeze into it? No. Potato: Does it involve looking around to see if people are near you? And based on that, you decide whether you sneeze ot try to avoid it? Or whether you sniff the mucus or seek a hanky? No to all. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1768 Registered: 6-2008 |
So it's not closing the eyes, and it's not breathing in, and it's not preparing something to sneeze into, right? Is it rubbing the nose? or the eyes? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 811 Registered: 12-2007 |
So it's not closing the eyes, and it's not breathing in, and it's not preparing something to sneeze into, right? Right. Is it rubbing the nose? or the eyes? No. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1769 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is it feeling a tickle in one's nose? Though I know that isn't really an action, it almost seems that's the only thing left. Speaking of which, if my guess was wrong, is altching a true action? or rather a sensation? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 812 Registered: 12-2007 |
Is it feeling a tickle in one's nose? This is very close. When you altch, your nose often tickles. Though I know that isn't really an action, it almost seems that's the only thing left. Speaking of which, if my guess was wrong, is altching a true action? or rather a sensation? Closer to this. | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 813 Registered: 12-2007 |
Correction: it is not a true action, but it is not really a sensation, either. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1772 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is it simply the condition of having something stuck in your nose? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 804 Registered: 7-2010 |
Is it the sensation that you have to sneeze, but when you "start" sneezing, the sneeze won't come out? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 814 Registered: 12-2007 |
Biograd: Is it simply the condition of having something stuck in your nose? No, but help is at hand... Potato: Is it the sensation that you have to sneeze, but when you "start" sneezing, the sneeze won't come out? Yes! And just to wrap it up, why looking around? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 823 Registered: 7-2010 |
Do you purposely look at certain things? Or is the looking around a result of moving your head? Is closing and opening your eyes relevant? Do you try to trigger the sneeze by looking into bright light or something? Is walking around relevant? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1775 Registered: 6-2008 |
Are you making sure nobody thinks you are weird? or are you looking to see if there are plants--or anything else--around that you're allergic to? | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 815 Registered: 12-2007 |
Potato: Do you try to trigger the sneeze by looking into bright light or something? Spot on. ***************** SPOILER ***************** to altch: to be stuck in the middle of a sneeze. Often involves making funny faces. One can try to trigger the sneeze by looking into something bright, such as the sky or a lamp. Thank you all for playing! | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2706 Registered: 7-2009 |
Fun fact for the day: Studies have shown that only 10-30% of the population has the gene that allows the bright light trick to work. I have it, but my husband doesn't, so he thinks I'm half nuts about it...even after I pulled out my genetics textbook and showed him it was real. From inheritance studies, they know it's a dominant gene, but haven't actually identified the specific gene yet. The best part? Some scientists call it the ACHOO gene, and call the effect ACHOO syndrome, where "ACHOO" is an acronym for something. | ||
| Arek_fu (Arek_fu)
New member Username: Arek_fu Post Number: 816 Registered: 12-2007 |
Wow! I didn't know that. By the way, I forgot to mention that altch stands for ALmost aTCHoo :-) |
