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| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1026 Registered: 8-2010 |
Until today, I have had a scrund (I think it's passive, not sure) involving an imaginary word. I thought the word existed after hearing it. Where did I hear it, and what is the word? | ||
| Fionakelleghan (Fionakelleghan)
New member Username: Fionakelleghan Post Number: 321 Registered: 7-2011 |
Hi! You posted this as "Bad words." Is this word or phrase: (1) something that makes / made you emotional? (2) something that you associate with oh sorry, i have to run, back soon | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1027 Registered: 8-2010 |
Hi! You posted this as "Bad words." Is this word or phrase: (1) something that makes / made you emotional? (2) something that you associate with oh sorry, i have to run, back soon if I understood your second question, no to both | ||
| Fionakelleghan (Fionakelleghan)
New member Username: Fionakelleghan Post Number: 322 Registered: 7-2011 |
Sorry for running away! I can return for a short time. I'm fascinated! If I have any expertise, it's with words (and words in several languages). 1) Is the word one of the tricky (and irritating) English language words such as homonyms? 2) Is this a word that we might expect from a novel / TV program / film... 2a) which we might be familiar with? Such as 2b) In "Star Trek," we use words such as "transporter beam" and in 2c) In "Star Wars," we might use words such as "droids" Those are suggestions, and please feel free to laugh at me ... And, oh! I've just really focused on what you said: "an imaginary word." Now I'm going to think really hard about this. I'm good at these puzzles! But I still want to come back and ask questions. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1636 Registered: 2-2011 |
did you actually hear that word or you misheard another - real - word, and thought your mishearing really existed? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1637 Registered: 2-2011 |
did you hear someone say it in person? to you? to a third party? did you hear it on TV? radio? news? is the original word a proper noun? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1028 Registered: 8-2010 |
Sorry for running away! I can return for a short time. I'm fascinated! If I have any expertise, it's with words (and words in several languages). 1) Is the word one of the tricky (and irritating) English language words such as homonyms? no 2) Is this a word that we might expect from a novel / TV program thisish / film... 2a) which we might be familiar with? it depends Such as 2b) In "Star Trek," we use words such as "transporter beam" not like this and in 2c) In "Star Wars," we might use words such as "droids" or this Those are suggestions, and please feel free to laugh at me ... And, oh! I've just really focused on what you said: "an imaginary word." Now I'm going to think really hard about this. I'm good at these puzzles! But I still want to come back and ask questions. did you actually hear that word yes or you misheard another - real - word, and thought your mishearing really existed? did you hear someone say it in person? to you? to a third party? see the next question for this did you hear it on TV? this radio? news? is the original word a proper noun? ... yes ... | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4207 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was it a substituted swear word? Such as frell, frack, or gorram? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1657 Registered: 2-2011 |
was it the name of a person? a place? a vehicle? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1031 Registered: 8-2010 |
Was it a substituted swear word? Such as frell, frack, or gorram? No; this brand of "bad words" is not relevant. was it the name of a person? a place? a vehicle? None of these. | ||
| Fionakelleghan (Fionakelleghan)
New member Username: Fionakelleghan Post Number: 326 Registered: 7-2011 |
Whirligig, I'd like to be clear, because I'm new enough here that I'm not sure what a "passive" scrund is. You responded to "TV program?" with "thisish" but you also responded to "did you hear it on TV?" with "this" So I'm wondering whether, if the source was TV, is it a fantastic/SF program such as "The Twilight Zone" - or is it comical or satirical, anything from "Gilligan's Island" to "The Colbert Report" - or an advertisement? Maybe Shez and Galfisk are smarter: to be asking about the word rather than about the source. Did you hear a word that you thought was spelled a certain way, but was spelled a different way? Was it a word that you had heard people say - but those people were wrong? Was it a word that you mis-heard? Or a word that you heard in a surprising context? Was it a word that does have a specific meaning in a specific context, but which many people consider to be wrong in some way, such as postmodernist conservative recreational unionized (Isaac Asimov used to joke about how the word meant something totally different if you look at it as un-ion-ized) Wait, see what I did there? I threw you a lot of adjectives. Is the word a noun? a verb? an adjective? an adverb? another part of speech? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1666 Registered: 2-2011 |
was it the name of a language? a religion? a month? an animal? a race? a people? a god? a mythical creature? a time? was it a title? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1036 Registered: 8-2010 |
Whirligig, I'd like to be clear, because I'm new enough here that I'm not sure what a "passive" scrund is. It means that I never really thought about it, but it surprised me to discover the truth. You responded to "TV program?" with "thisish" but you also responded to "did you hear it on TV?" with "this" So I'm wondering whether, if the source was TV, is it a fantastic/SF program such as "The Twilight Zone" - or is it comical or satirical, anything from "Gilligan's Island" to "The Colbert Report" - or an advertisement? this -- a commercial Maybe Shez and Galfisk are smarter: to be asking about the word rather than about the source. Did you hear a word that you thought was spelled a certain way, but was spelled a different way? yope Was it a word that you had heard people say - but those people were wrong? no Was it a word that you mis-heard? no Or a word that you heard in a surprising context? no Was it a word that does have a specific meaning in a specific context, but which many people consider to be wrong in some way, such as postmodernist conservative recreational unionized (Isaac Asimov used to joke about how the word meant something totally different if you look at it as un-ion-ized) none of these -- I've heard that's how you tell chemists apart from other people (you write it and ask them to say it) Wait, see what I did there? I threw you a lot of adjectives. Is the word a noun? a verb? an adjective? oh look, it is an adjective an adverb? another part of speech? was it the name of a language? a religion? a month? an animal? a race? a people? a god? a mythical creature? a time? none of these :P was it a title? noish | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1678 Registered: 2-2011 |
I thought you said it was a proper noun, and you also said it was an adjective? is it the name of a product? is it an adjective which describes a product? or both? is the ad for a product? a service? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1040 Registered: 8-2010 |
I thought you said it was a proper noun, and you also said it was an adjective? yes is it the name of a product? yes is it an adjective which describes a product? yope or both? LAEFTR is the ad for a product? this a service? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1506 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is it some brand product name that has grown into a generic name for all products of that type? For instance "Band-aid" for bandage or "Coke" for "Soda"? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1045 Registered: 8-2010 |
Is it some brand product name that has grown into a generic name for all products of that type? For instance "Band-aid" for bandage or "Coke" for "Soda"? good guess, but no | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1708 Registered: 2-2011 |
I was thinking somethig like "Flash"? Is the product a food? a drink? a cleaning product? gardening? clothing? a household item? a proprietary medecine? a car? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1046 Registered: 8-2010 |
I was thinking somethig like "Flash"? no -- "flash" is a real word Is the product a food? yope a drink? a cleaning product? gardening? clothing? a household item? a proprietary medecine? a car? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1728 Registered: 2-2011 |
hmmm....not a real word, but an adjective..I can't help feeling that's a big clue, but I can't see it yet is the product a sweet? chocolate? chewing gum? pet food? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1052 Registered: 8-2010 |
is the product a sweet? chocolate? chewing gum? pet food? this | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1748 Registered: 2-2011 |
yay! dog food? cat food? does the word sound like delicious? yummy? scrummy? is it a word which is often used as a name for a pet? like Fido? is the name of the product a single word? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1054 Registered: 8-2010 |
yay! dog food? this cat food? does the word sound like delicious? yummy? scrummy? but none of these is it a word which is often used as a name for a pet? like Fido? no is the name of the product a single word? yes | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1758 Registered: 2-2011 |
is this a brand which we are likely to know? Purina? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1055 Registered: 8-2010 |
is this a brand which we are likely to know? Purina? It's advertised on TV a lot, at least around where I live, but not Purina. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 14676 Registered: 4-2010 |
Alpo? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1056 Registered: 8-2010 |
Alpo? no | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 14785 Registered: 4-2010 |
Blue? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1065 Registered: 8-2010 |
Blue? no | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1868 Registered: 2-2011 |
this is going to be hard if we just guess at names - don't know where you live but I bet they are all different. would it help to guess the meaning of the adjective? does the adjective refer to the taste? texture? some attribute of a dog? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1067 Registered: 8-2010 |
this is going to be hard if we just guess at names - don't know where you live but I bet they are all different. would it help to guess the meaning of the adjective? yes does the adjective refer to the taste? texture? some attribute of a dog? none of these | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 1882 Registered: 2-2011 |
does the adjective describe a sound? quality? something visual? a smell? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1073 Registered: 8-2010 |
does the adjective describe a sound? quality? thisish something visual? a smell? | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 1712 Registered: 9-2009 |
So the word is a proper noun as a brand for the pet-food, correct? Is it also a proper noun for the owner of a the pet-food company, like Abady? Does the word (as a combination of letters) exist in the dictionary? Is it listed as adjective? Did you think it meant something else? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1074 Registered: 8-2010 |
So the word is a proper noun as a brand for the pet-food, correct? yes Is it also a proper noun for the owner of a the pet-food company, like Abady? no Does the word (as a combination of letters) exist in the dictionary? Is it listed as adjective? Did you think it meant something else? no to all | ||
| Fionakelleghan (Fionakelleghan)
New member Username: Fionakelleghan Post Number: 343 Registered: 7-2011 |
(Balin, I've published a professional article about "Cat Food in Science Fiction," I kid you not, and it opens with a joke about Alpo.) Whirligig, I'm lousy at noticing brand names. But if we aren't to look for something like Crunchies or KatsLoveTheseTreats, I think of IAMS, because the first time a friend mentioned it to me, I thought it was maybe something cats got from eating too much people food. Good puzzle, thanks from rainy Miami, looking forward to the answer, Fiona. | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1079 Registered: 8-2010 |
Whirligig, I'm lousy at noticing brand names. But if we aren't to look for something like Crunchies or KatsLoveTheseTreats, I think of IAMS, because the first time a friend mentioned it to me, I thought it was maybe something cats got from eating too much people food. Nope. It's not IAMS. Google should probably be used at this point. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 2036 Registered: 2-2011 |
Eukanuba? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1080 Registered: 8-2010 |
Eukanuba? No. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 15350 Registered: 4-2010 |
Nutro? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1092 Registered: 8-2010 |
Nutro? no | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1883 Registered: 6-2008 |
Oh, I think I may know this. Curiously, out of the blue I (quite recently, in fact) remembered that some product had this name, and Googled it, finding out it was pet food. That prompted me to think of a bunch of similar made-up adjectives, and Google them too in order to see if I was the first one to make THEM up. Does it imply that the food is good for the health of the dog? (It was actually rather hard to write that without using any form of the real word that was "adjectified") | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 2216 Registered: 2-2011 |
what's the word? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1094 Registered: 8-2010 |
Does it imply that the food is good for the health of the dog? (It was actually rather hard to write that without using any form of the real word that was "adjectified") Pretty much -- care to $poil? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1886 Registered: 6-2008 |
My idea was "Beneful". Of course, the real adjective form of "benefit" is "beneficial". | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 1095 Registered: 8-2010 |
My idea was "Beneful". Of course, the real adjective form of "benefit" is "beneficial". Right, so here's the **********SPOILER********** Once while watching a Beneful commercial (if I remember correctly), I realized that I had been thinking all along that it was actually a word. Other than that, there's not much to say, really. Thanks to all who participated, especially Biograd for the (slightly lucky) solve. |
