| Author | Message | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2042 Registered: 4-2007 |
Because of a scrund I had, I thought they were being overly cautious. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18092 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is "they" a particularly group of people? An organization? Is this an example of over-PC? Did you think it was one? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4988 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was the scrund about the meaning of a word? Or several words? Did you think a non-offensive word was offensive? Or the other way around? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2044 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is "they" a particularly group of people? Yes An organization? Yesish Is this an example of over-PC? No Did you think it was one? Not really, I thought they were being very cautious but not in a PC way. Was the scrund about the meaning of a word? Yes Or several words? No Did you think a non-offensive word was offensive? No Or the other way around? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4997 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did they use the word you had a scrund about? Avoid using it? Use a different word you thought was less fitting? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2048 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did they use the word you had a scrund about? Yes, no to rest Avoid using it? Use a different word you thought was less fitting? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3723 Registered: 2-2011 |
did they use the word in the name of their organisation or group? or what the individuals called themselves? or how they described what they do? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2053 Registered: 4-2007 |
did they use the word in the name of their organisation or group? or what the individuals called themselves? No to both or how they described what they do? Yope | ||
| Solo1 (Solo1)
New member Username: Solo1 Post Number: 429 Registered: 5-2012 |
Gender involved (of words), or sex (of people)? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2056 Registered: 4-2007 |
Gender involved (of words), or sex (of people)? Neither | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5011 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is their profession relevant? Do they work together? Do another task together? Sports relevant? Can they be described as a: team? Club? Troupe? Company? Mob? Friends? Colleagues? Business partners? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2059 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is their profession relevant? Yes Do they work together? Yes Do another task together? Sports relevant? No Can they be described as a: team? Club? Troupe? Company? This Mob? Friends? Colleagues? And this Business partners? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5021 Registered: 9-2009 |
Profession: Artistic / musical / writer Banking / financial / real estate Clerical / Administrative Computer related / Hardware Construction / Craftsman Criminal / Questionable Repute Education / Academic Research Entertainment / Media Environmental / Outdoors / Nature Executive / Management Hospitality / Travel Legal Services Manufacturing / Distributions Medical / Health Services Politics / Government / Military Sales / Marketing Technical / Science / Engineering Teaching / Child care Transportation Food Service Other? Were the words in: advertising? Mass media? Headquarters? On a product? In a product name? A slogan? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2060 Registered: 4-2007 |
Profession: Artistic / musical / writer Banking / financial / real estate Clerical / Administrative 'They' were probably the administrative staff, or perhaps management, of a company. Figuring out the company will help you more Computer related / Hardware Construction / Craftsman Criminal / Questionable Repute Education / Academic Research Entertainment / Media Environmental / Outdoors / Nature Executive / Management Hospitality / Travel This is closest to the nature of the company Legal Services Manufacturing / Distributions Medical / Health Services Politics / Government / Military Sales / Marketing Technical / Science / Engineering Teaching / Child care Transportation Food Service Other? Were the words in: advertising? Noish Mass media? Headquarters? On a product? In a product name? A slogan? No to rest | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5026 Registered: 9-2009 |
Airplane company? Train? bus? Taxi? Car manufacturer? Tour company? Tourist guides? Was the word on a vehicle? Several vehicles? In a logo? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2063 Registered: 4-2007 |
Airplane company? Train? bus? Taxi? Car manufacturer? Tour company? Tourist guides? Was the word on a vehicle? Several vehicles? In a logo? No to all, but think 'travel' as in leisure/tourism rather than transportation | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18106 Registered: 4-2010 |
A travel agency? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2069 Registered: 4-2007 |
A travel agency? No | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5053 Registered: 9-2009 |
Hotel? Other accommodation? A theme park? Water park? Other park? Zoo? Other tourist attraction? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2073 Registered: 4-2007 |
Hotel? Other accommodation? A theme park? Water park? Other park? Zoo? Other tourist attraction? It was a water park/theme park, but other kinds of park would probably work too | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5073 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was the word written? In the park? On their website? In a brochure? Said by staff? Through a PA system? Written on staff clothes? | ||
| Liquizt (Liquizt)
New member Username: Liquizt Post Number: 753 Registered: 5-2008 |
Was the word part of a sentence or phrase? On a sign? displaying a warning? a suggestion? a request? information? Did you interpret them to be overly cautious with respect to a danger of death? injury? health/hygiene risk? embarrassment? Did you believe there to be no such danger? mistakenly? correctly? or only a moderate, minor or miniscule risk? Did you believe them to believe there to be such a danger? of significant chance of occurring? Do you now believe them to believe there to be such a danger? of a significant chance of occurring? I was on holiday with my family a couple of years back and we laughed at the ambiguity of a sign that warned us, "in case of fire do not use lift". Not wanting to carry our suitcases up the several flights of stairs to our room, we 'recklessly' ignored it. :P | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2082 Registered: 4-2007 |
Was the word written? Yes In the park? Yes On their website? Possibly In a brochure? No Said by staff? Possibly Through a PA system? Possibly Written on staff clothes? No Was the word part of a sentence or phrase? Yes On a sign? Yes displaying a warning? Yope a suggestion? a request? information? Yes to this, no or noish to others Did you interpret them to be overly cautious with respect to a danger of death? injury? Either death or injury, no to rest health/hygiene risk? embarrassment? Did you believe there to be no such danger? mistakenly? correctly? or only a moderate, minor or miniscule risk? I incorrectly believed there to be a minor or minuscule risk Did you believe them to believe there to be such a danger? Yes of significant chance of occurring? Yes Do you now believe them to believe there to be such a danger? of a significant chance of occurring? Yes to both | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 2134 Registered: 6-2008 |
Would the danger be for people simply swimming in pools? to those riding water slides? to those on other rides? to those walking on the ground? Is the danger of drowning? of falling from a height? of slipping and falling while standing on the ground? of having something dropped on you? of getting part of your body stuck in something? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2095 Registered: 4-2007 |
Would the danger be for people simply swimming in pools? to those riding water slides? to those on other rides? to those walking on the ground? To everyone, but least so to those walking on the ground Is the danger of drowning? of falling from a height? of slipping and falling while standing on the ground? of having something dropped on you? of getting part of your body stuck in something? None of these | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18143 Registered: 4-2010 |
I worked at a theme park over the summer, but this isn't jumping out at me... Was the danger of being struck by another person? A part of an attraction? "Stand behind this line" or something like that? "Only one person at a time"? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2104 Registered: 4-2007 |
Was the danger of being struck by another person? No A part of an attraction? This might have come into it but is not the actual danger they were warning about "Stand behind this line" or something like that? "Only one person at a time"? No to both Hint: the danger is not always present | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5094 Registered: 9-2009 |
Weather relevant? Lightning? Cold? Heat? UV radiation? UV radiation in overcast weather? (That one got me once in a water park) Precipitation? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2107 Registered: 4-2007 |
Weather relevant? Yes Lightning? Yes Cold? Heat? UV radiation? UV radiation in overcast weather? (That one got me once in a water park) Precipitation? Yes, no to unanswered | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5096 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did they close whenever it rained? Or close some attractions? Did they close whenever there was a risk of thunderstorms? Or close certain attractions then? Did they warn against doing something specific? such as walking barefoot? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2108 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did they close whenever it rained? No Or close some attractions? Did they close whenever there was a risk of thunderstorms? Yes, or at least when there actually was a thunderstorm Or close certain attractions then? Did they warn against doing something specific? such as walking barefoot? No to these | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5101 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did your scrund only involve the meaning of this word? Or did it involve something more? Such as thunderstorms? Lightning strikes? did they sue a word that you thought meant "extremely unlikely" or similar? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2112 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did your scrund only involve the meaning of this word? Yes Or did it involve something more? Such as thunderstorms? Lightning strikes? No, only the meaning of the word did they sue a word that you thought meant "extremely unlikely" or similar? No, but sort of OTRT | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5104 Registered: 9-2009 |
Because of the scrund, did you think: lightning strikes were less likely than they were? That they were less likely to cause injury? Or that the injury in question would be less serious? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2115 Registered: 4-2007 |
Because of the scrund, did you think: lightning strikes were less likely than they were? This That they were less likely to cause injury? Or that the injury in question would be less serious? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18153 Registered: 4-2010 |
"A risk of lightning strikes"? "A chance of lightning strikes"? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2118 Registered: 4-2007 |
"A risk of lightning strikes"? "A chance of lightning strikes"? Neither | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18158 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the weather in the area relevant? Did you think the lightning would strike somewhere else? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2137 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is the weather in the area relevant? Yes Did you think the lightning would strike somewhere else? No Small hint: lightning is probably the most dangerous element, but it was not specifically lightning that the use of the word referred to | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5112 Registered: 9-2009 |
Did it refer to: Storms? Thunder? Bad weather? Cloud types? Forecasts? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2138 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did it refer to: Storms? Thunder? Bad weather? This is closest Cloud types? Forecasts? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18161 Registered: 4-2010 |
"Inclement weather"? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2142 Registered: 4-2007 |
"Inclement weather"? YES! This is the phrase they used. So what was my scrund, and why did I think they were being overly cautious? | ||
| Liquizt (Liquizt)
New member Username: Liquizt Post Number: 783 Registered: 5-2008 |
You thought 'inclement' meant merely unpleasant/miserable/undesirable/poor, i.e. 'a little bit wet, a little bit windy', when in reality it refers to severe, harsh conditions such as torrential rain and gales or dangerous icy conditions? Or, more specifically, did you acquire this scrund through how a school may for example warn about a closure due to 'inclement weather' on a snow day, and thus believed it meant lots of snow or cold? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18168 Registered: 4-2010 |
Did you think it meant "the weather in a place called Clement"? And you wondered why they'd close the park their if there was bad weather in Clement? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18169 Registered: 4-2010 |
And by "their" I mean "there" -- stupid homophones | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2155 Registered: 4-2007 |
You thought 'inclement' meant merely unpleasant/miserable/undesirable/poor, i.e. 'a little bit wet, a little bit windy', when in reality it refers to severe, harsh conditions such as torrential rain and gales or dangerous icy conditions? Yes! *******SPOILER******* I'm not sure why, but until quite recently I had always believed 'inclement weather' to mean weather that is just slightly bad, with a few rain showers perhaps. Maybe it's because of the similarity to 'increment', suggesting a small amount, or because I never thought of the word as meaning 'not clement', and it's not a common enough word to have been corrected earlier. So when I heard of a theme park being closed due to inclement weather, I thought they were being overly cautious, until I googled the phrase and realised my misconception. Thanks for playing everyone and Liquizt for finishing it off! |
