Language & Grammar discussion

I got a 6 on this quiz. How do you do?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/...

Hahahaha....I did it too and here is what it said!

"You scored 4 out of a possible 10

You jobbernowl [blockhead:]! But don't be too mumpish [depressed in spirits:] and try not to gowl [weep bitterly:] – just start studying your dictionary."

Glad I was born in modern times....I scored 5 and most were a guess...

Here's what it said about me!

"You're not quite so much of a goostrumnoodle [fool:] as you might be, but you're still two ants short of a picnic. As the Aussies would say, the wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead."

Oh NO...the hamster!!!...Promise Joanie!!!...he's fine...just checked on him...I did!!!

I got a three. hahahahaha. You jobbernowl [blockhead:]! But don't be too mumpish [depressed in spirits:] and try not to gowl [weep bitterly:] – just start studying your dictionary." duh

Untapped genius.

Gee wiz who said Brains is better than beauty?

Dunno....but it is true!

Go for baroque -- ask for both!

and if you can't get either ask for filthy lucre

laundered first

PSIONICS

Psionics is the study and/or practice of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena. Examples of this include telepathy, telekinesis, and other workings of the outside world through the psyche. The topic is widely discussed in fiction.

Anna wrote: "Disturbingly:

You scored 8 out of a possible 10

Froligozene! [Tudor-Stuart term meaning rejoice!:] But don't cachinnate [laugh loudly and immoderately:] or you'll be seen as a princock [conce..."

You scored 6 out of a possible 10

You're not quite so much of a goostrumnoodle [fool:] as you might be, but you're still two ants short of a picnic. As the Aussies would say, the wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

I have to admit, all but one were guesses.

carol (akittykat) wrote: "Psionics is the study and/or practice of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena. Examples of this include telepathy, telekinesis, and other workings of the outside world through the psyche. ..."

My writing partner would love this word. He lives in a haunted house that seems to get a lot of time in the press. He now firmly believes in ghosts. I don't, but I believe something is going on in his house.

How does one drum up a writing partner who lives in a haunted house? (Note: This question is in two parts.)

You just get lucky. ;) He's also a PEN/Faulkner winner. Whenever he sees an email from me with the subject line, "Help!" he knows I need help with a solo project.

That does it. Now you have to name names. I love pens but have little room for Faulkner's truck.

I think he favors Hemingway. My writing partner.

Ditto.

-- Your Posting Partner

But I prefer Faulkner. It's not a problem, though.

And I like 'em both.

Wow. I always thought they were "east is east and west is west" authors. You're either right or left hemisphered and you either like Hemingway or Faulkner the Fraud.

I am strange. I like them both.

Now, now Gabs. Hemingway's more complex than that. Or maybe much more simple. He's all gorilla bluster. Really a hopeless and bitter Romantic. It's hard to read A Moveable (Sic) Feast and conclude otherwise. But you've accurately nailed the stereotype his enemies have built of him.

Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in the 40's, and he had a well known battle with alcohol. Faulkner edges out Hemingway by a snoot.

opine -- "often connotes the forming of a judgment on insufficient grounds." (Bryan Garner)

(I wonder if he means weak coffee.)

(a.) Ahungered; longing.

I like Hemingway's shorts.

Bermudas. (Oh, wait. He lived in Cuba.)

A bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin.

daiquiri (weird -- and if you drink enough -- wonderful)

A hickory daiquiri, Doc!

David wrote: "A hickory daiquiri, Doc!"

Guhroooaaan.

Gabi wrote: "Never read Faulkner. Don't like Hemingway, he's all "men are men and the women are glad of it" bullshit. Fighting the bulls, hunting the lions, F.....g the women, drinking & dancing till dawn, yawn! "

I agree. Some of his short stories are superbly written, but he's just too testosterone driven for me.

Ruth wrote: "David wrote: "A hickory daiquiri, Doc!"

Guhroooaaan.

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Depths

schism

It's weird. And it's wonderful -- if the schism is with your mother-in-law.

I actually know that word! :)

adnascentia

Every winter, until we got rid of the willows, the adnascentia would shift. (A shame, too, because I love willows.)

quite like the sound of.. Verisimilitude (think it's the appearance of truth?)

I'm going to change my pilliver soon. (Old English for a pillowcase.)

Verisimilitude is weird. Pilliver is wonderful. In fact, I think I read the book. Pilliver's Travels, it was.

lexophile- is a person who loves words and word plays


1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

2. A will is a dead giveaway.

3. A backward poet writes inverse

4. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

5. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

6. A calendar's days are numbered.

carol (akittykat) wrote: "lexophile- is a person who loves words and word play.

My kinda fun Carol!

Newengland wrote: "Verisimilitude is weird. Pilliver is wonderful. In fact, I think I read the book. Pilliver's Travels, it was."

I probably have to use verisimilitude on a daily basis with the writers I work with. *sigh* They need to learn about that BEFORE sending something to me.

I don't like Hemingway for the same reason. I think he's a good writer, but he's just too testosterone driven for me.

Once you get to know him, you learn otherwise.

I like Papa H. I also like Faulkner and Steinbeck.

The best example of his work would be two parts gobbledy and one part gook.

See the film "To Have and Have Not." Faulkner co-wrote the screenplay.

Sailing down a lazy river on a Sunday afternoon. That is how I describe Faulkner. But it has been years since I read anything of his. Maybe I will change my mind. I will be reading Go Down Moses soon.

As I Lay Dying is funnier than hell.