#Writers and #readers: I’m trying to recall a specific term I learned when I was eleven years old. It refers to text-based #wordplay that conveys a #word, phrase, or concept.
For example, “lines reading lines” is recognized as the phrase, “Reading between the lines”. I’ve included some illustrative examples below. What is the English name of this idea? #thankyou
Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.
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Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters
#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom
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Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.
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Hint: please don't
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Some important acronyms to know. Feel free to add some of your own.
Lisp:
Logic In Symbolic Paradigms
Lisp Inspires Strange People
Lisp Is Secretly Perfect
Python:
Pseudocode You’d Teach Hordes Of Newbies
Probably You'll Try Harder On Next-lang
Python: You'd Think Hardware's Optional Now
Emacs:
Editor Maintained As Community Shrine
Ecosystem Mainly Acquired by Cult Sysadmins
Emacs Means Always Configuring Something
Vim:
Vaguely Interactive Misery
Very Irritating Macros
Vim Isn't Modern
Linux:
Legendary Interface, Notoriously Unforgiving eXperience
Loyal In Nature, Unmatched eXtensibility
Linux Is Natural Under X
Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.
Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!
Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters
#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom
Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!
Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.
Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.
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Hint: wishful
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The two rebuses shared today are probably too tough.
Yet, because they pop into my mind, I make them and then share them.
Keeping them to myself seems counterproductive.
Like any other creative endeavor, they seem to need to be seen by others.
To offset, I'll also share this one.
I hope it is not...
Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.
Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!
Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters
Just came across a word with this delightful letter sequence in it:
wnsw
I thought of, and rejected, vicissitudes for that silly list. But I realised I had learned its meaning from contexts only, and had never looked it up. It’s a little interesting.
I had thought it meant something like randomly bad happenings, which works for ‘life’s vicissitudes’, but Chambers gives it four definitions: change, alternation, mutation, and change of fortune (for the worse). That last one is described as informal.
It stems from vice, which has three etymologically distinct definitions. The one we want here means in place of or in succession to, and gives us the prefix form (as in vice-chancellor etc). The Latin root here is vicis = a turn.
Do I contain vicissitudes? Oh yes.
Do I contain multitudes? Not convinced. On the other hand
I contain solitudes.
I contain attitudes.
I contain lassitudes.
I contain études.
Come on, English, get your act together. We don’t need all these.
‘teeters’ is a silly word. (Just saw it in a headline.) It shouldn’t be used anywhere near a serious sentence. Say it to yourself. See what I mean? Some words just can’t do serious.
It comes from the Middle English titeren = to totter.
Whereas totter seems most closely related to Norwegian (tutra, totra) or Swedish (tuttra) dialect words = to quiver.
Well, I'm definitely feeling no better. I have a blog to finish and writing to do, but I just can't...
My brain did this to me today, so I had to make it in #Krita. That's the level I'm operating on at the moment.
#til
The word ‘gnomic’ had sneaked past me several times over the years without saying ‘look me up’. I finally got around to it.
In the sense I had met it (gnomic utterances) it’s related to ‘gnome’ but not *that* kind of gnome.
The ordinary meaning of gnome = dwarf or pygmy was coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century (my dictionary is silent on his thinking).
The other gnome — properly pronounced as in the original Greek: nōˈmē — means a pithy saying, often in verse, usually containing a moral precept. Hence gnomic utterances.
I have now to revise my view on the taciturn nature of gnomes.
The original Greek gnome? It means an opinion, or a maxim.
#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom
Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!
Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.
Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.
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Hint: no big deal
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