While so many of you were at Wordapalooza, I returned, along with a few others, and had a wonderful time exchanging ideas, limericks, tall tales, etc. on this board. I do hope that those of you who weren't on the board this weekend will allow us to continue in that amicable pattern, displaying courtesy to the several newcomers and old-timers alike, and having a good, and frequently edifying time, just as it should be!

Best wishes to you all,

Geoff

Geoff, I'm delighted to see that it's still possible for someone to have a good time here.

I wasn't at WP, never had any intention of going and nothing appeared to entice me there. (Anyway, I had another place to be that I couldn't skip.) I think I can speak for the emigrés who were (and weren't) at WP in saying that we are still firm AWAD supporters in spite of everything and we condemn flaming as much as you. We look forward to when we will feel able to return in full force, but I think you know what the obstacle to that is. Meanwhile, there are some of us who look in now and then (mainly to test the waters) and I am encouraged. My best to you, Dr. Bill, and the immovable brigade.

Ah, yes!...conviviality...has a magical ring to it!...may it's aura bless us all once again!

Hi Geoff -

I really enjoyed looking through Bill's "all alone" thread - what fun you fellers (and chickies!) had this weekend! I tend not to switch on ye olde compuker on le weekend (or le ouikend, as I believe you styled it once?! or something similar!) - now look what I missed out on!

I like it here. Let's play some more!

Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.

While so many of you were at Wordapalooza, I returned, along with a few others, and had a wonderful time exchanging ideas, limericks, tall tales, etc. on this board. I do hope that those of you who weren't on the board this weekend will allow us to continue in that amicable pattern, displaying courtesy to the several newcomers and old-timers alike, and having a good, and frequently edifying time, just as it should be!

Geoff,
When I first read your post, I thought, wouldn't congeniality be a better word? But after overcoming a laziness to liu, I did liued it and found that conviviality is very apt to the situation at hand because it means jovial and social (+ity) and also discovered that it is a beautiful word at its Latin roots which is "convivium" meaning "a living together" and "a banquet" (AHD)

On the other hand congenial means having the same taste or temperament, sympathetic, agreeable.

Conviviality, indeed!
Hi Geoff, will you be lurking now or continue to be convivial? Anyway, it was nice to "see you" again

*Sigh* That's the way the board used to be. I'm so glad that so many of you had an opportunity to enjoy it as did those of us at WaPaloo. But.....we had a swimming pool! Thanks again, Sparteye, for such a wonderful, stressless conviviality.

Ahhhh, at last a motto for AWAD.
Stolen, I must admit from my Great-grand-Aunt, a Mother Superior in the Order of The House of Good Sherherd.
She had - I am told _ a bell and a plaque at her door which said (Latin scholars please correct spelling/grammar etc)

"Si non convivare, noli tintinare"

Loosely translated "If you are not convivial do not ring."

(I've neen told it was put to more corrupt uses in the '60s) Be that as it may, I am sure the Good Mother meant convivial in the best sense of the word.

I may obtain a suitablel bell and plaque with those words for the door to the AWAD arboreal fane wherein may be found surcease from sadness, salve for the spirit, laughter, love and affection for all who come in the spirit of conviviality.
Your High Priestess
WOW

Thank you, Geoff

"Si non convivare, ... "

"If you don't swing, ..."

Keiva: You are an extortionist and unwelcome.

Dear wow: You had me excited for a minute, thinking Poe's "tintinabulation of the bells' was
not an inspired coinage of his as I had believed. Sadly I must state Latin dictionary does
not contain very "tintinare". I'm brokenhearted.

came up with this in a search of Latin dictionaries:

tintinare

tintin.are V 1 1 PRES ACTIVE INF 0 X
tintin.are V 1 1 PRES PASSIVE IND 2 S Early
tintin.are V 1 1 PRES PASSIVE IMP 2 S
tintino, tintinare, tintinavi, tintinatus V
make a ringing or jangling sound;
Syncope r => v.r
Syncopated perfect often drops the 'v' and contracts vowel
tintinav.ere V 1 1 PERF ACTIVE IND 3 P
tintino, tintinare, tintinavi, tintinatus V
make a ringing or jangling sound;

as my Latin is non-existent, I'm not sure if this means that this is a genuine word, or just what it would mean in Latin if it were. know what I mean?

Dear etaoin: Pretty please, with sugar on it, give us URL to dictionary you used
The one I used is ordinarily quite adequate, but yours must have been better.

I use:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/

went from there to:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html#table

and from there to:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/romance.html

and eventually got to here:

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe

(I saw .exe and worried, but it worked fine on a mac; it all happens at the site, nothing installed on my iMac)

yourdictionary also has a great little gizmo that goes in your toolbar:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/lkupbttn.html

Caution-warning in the above link:
the link at http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe, listed above, notes that it "will generate tens of thousands of additional words - some of which are recognized Latin words, some are perfectly reasonable words which were never used by Cicero or Caesar but might have been used by Augustine or some monk at Jarrow, and some are nonsense."

Keiva: you were banned for starting a flame war and refusing to quit.
You used threats to get Wordsmith to re-instate you. You are contemptible.

"Si non convivare, noli tintinare" ... I may obtain a suitable bell and plaque with those words for the door to the AWAD arboreal fane

I would counsel caution here. The entire motto is eerily reminiscient of Si Non Oscillas Noli Tintinnare, which was engraved on a brass plaque on the door of Chicago's Playboy Mansion. Your proposed motto may be even more extreme: google's language-tool translates the italian word convivere as to cohabit.