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Hmm. I thought maybe all of you (who are interested) could guess as a team. This is just for fun anyway, and I think my word is cool. I will try to check in often enough to respond yes or no. In the mean time, don't guess a new letter until I respond with answers from the last. Hmm... I sorta posted this on the spur of the moment when I saw someone mention hangman. Maybe we can develop a method. I'm open to suggestions.
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Word play and fun isn't word games. this is not a game site. there are, as pointed out in posts above this, lots of game sites.. if i wanted to play games, i'd go there.
the word game comes to English from the old high german, and is related to gaman; amusements.
now amusements, that's an interesting word, with a wonderful history! perhaps our own SilkMuse could give us some history on amusements!--and maybe even a hint about her silk muse.
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Interesting. I think I may buy this as an end of school present for my kids.
good.
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Ok, I'm sorry. The word was myrrh.
Does anyone want to discuss this neat word?
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We do hangman in the car when we travel. And, though it's not a wordgame, we do Jeopardy (and 20 questions).
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myrrh. Does anyone want to discuss this neat word?
Love to, Robert. In fact, a friend and I were recently discussing another word which my friend surmised was related to myrrh. The surmise led me to a tangle of research.
How about starting a new myrrh-thread, telling us enough about the word to get our creative juices flowing?
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we've had puns, and anagrams, and homonyms, ands synonyms, and palendromes, and the theme that was just brought up again in weekly themes, with visual images/palendromes of words..
we haven't played hang man, or game games. as pointed out, they have time limits.. and since this bb is open to, and was in the past, used round the clock it would n't work very well if someone from NZ posted a letter, and had to wait 8 or 12 hours for a responce!
There were some rounds of hogwash, but they were rather new, and not consistant
sorry i wasn't clear.
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hehehe
You wrote In the immortal words of Shakespeare, the character of Marc Antony, "I come not to praise Caesar, but to bury him".
I believe the phrase is "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." (My oldest daughter was Marc Antony in the 6th grade play.) Of course, like most of the rest of what Marc A said, it was meant to be ironical (well, not from Marc's perspective, but from the author's). He says he's not going to praise Caesar when in fact he does nothing but praise Caesar. He talks about the nobility of Brutus and the others ("so are they all honorable men") when in fact he's offering evidence that they have been an altogether perfidious lot. He says that he is no orator like Brutus, all while delivering some of the most stirring words ever uttered.
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