The Acronym Game

Apparently there are those who are afeared of challenges. I figure we can eventually end V, Q, any words with double letters...any word or letter we don't like, I suppose will be released from play in the Acronym forming.

As I explained to Spendius/Dutchy and any others who read it, I use all letters regularly and the words games including ones with the challenges helped me restore my written vocabulary skills when I had difficulties there a few seasons back.

LEAKING

LUCILLE educated aretha keeping important notes gratuitously.

LUCILLE

Lepers Unite. Create Independent Left LEANING Empire.

a)you done been pipped, Mame beat you by a few minutes

b)I've never heard of this Lickham-Bottom sauce, sounds rather perverted.

No it's not, it's in Devon. Perhaps you were thinking of this place?

Next year for my holidays I'm going here.

You are perfectly entitled to use any letter you choose Mame. Who am I to stand against a lady? But I cannot help feeling a slight jolt of sadness when I see some of them. Particulary "ly" endings. They do actually make the game less creative which is my idea of how to play. Difficulty I am content to leave to the masochists.

But I know ladies enjoy tormenting us poor saps because I have been assured of the fact and seen plenty of evidence to confirm it. Tormenting two poor saps, Dutchy and myself, there may be others who are too frightened to step forward, must be twice as enjoyable.

If you simply make it difficult to respond to your actions you inevitably restrict the creativity of the response which thrives on having the widest possible choice and X,Y and Z do not provide that. Suppose you needed a word for "thrusting", say. Would you look first among the X,Y and Z pages. We needs must play with synonyms. You would look in vain. There are none. And a train of thought has to be got rid of and another one started. Which isn't always easy.

It seems to me that X,Y and Z reduce your own enjoyment of the thread. You won't find any in my chosen word except maybe when I first came on it to torment Clary. I soon realized the downside of offering difficulties to the crew. Making it easy for them is by far the best and I recommend it for your consideration which, as you know, I esteem.

The way I proceed is to type out my solution and then examine all the words in it for the one the seems to offer the greatest choices to the next player.

What sort of challenge? Wit is one of them. And that is restricted by the use of letters which are such a small proportion of the dictionary. Getting some sort of answer to the WORD is a piece of cake. A flowing witty sentence is required for challenges. The droller the better.

LEANING

Len's eyeballs ATTENUATE near Irene's new garters.

I wasn't thinking of any particular place actually izz. I look up Unusual place names sometimes to get inspiration. There is a Lickham-Bottom in Worcestershire. If there's one in Devon too it shows a sort of cultural echo which is not confined to one place.

So the challenge of getting words with the letters X, Y, Z or ending in your terrifying space of LY is foreboden; but you think creating 'witty' sentences is a proper challenge. Who the hell are you to decide? If you want to do that, then I believe hyphenated crap like Lickham-Bottom shouldn't be allowed, it's a miserable excuse to create excessively long 'words'. I resisted such an urge earlier when I toyed with the idea of ultra-unusual, felt it more important to use non-hyphenated words/places.

I seem to recall years back, you used to balk at long words, made a stink over that as well.

As I said yesterday (am I allowed to use that word as it has 2 ys in it?), although there aren't many words which begin with the aforementioned letters, there are littering the thesauruses, dictionaries, vocabularies literally millions of words with those letters. If the placement words and the chosen Acronym word are to exclude these letters then there really isn't much hope for this thread. No longer can sizzle, mixture, exotic, cyborg, amazonian, hieroglyphic, eyewash, taxpayer, be allowed as well as a whole host of other words.

Too, isn't it more the challenge to take those few words starting with X, Y or Z and find ways to intersperse them into formed phrases (witty or just plain regular and holding clarity)?

ATTENUATE

ATTICUS took thimbles even nonnie's undergarments after the earthquake.



(oh lookie there, not an X, Y or a Z )

You're not getting the point Sturgie. You are perfectly free to choose an "ly" ending for every one of your WORDS. I am not in the least terrified at such a prospect.

I have not decided anything. I couldn't even if I wanted to which I don't. I have made a suggestion--that's all. It is your privilege to ignore it or to deliberately go against it.

Mame requested that she may use hyphenated-words and I voted in favour. It is not an excuse to create excessively long words. It was a desperate search for a laugh which are very valuable items according to Francois Rabelais of whom you may have heard tell. He is one of that very special class whose name is in the dictionary.

To be clear I was only speaking of the chosen WORD and not the other words in the expression. And I hadn't spoken about it in a long time but there had been a recent rash of ys and lys.

I submitted this the other day--



As you can see there are 4 ys in that and a hyphen. It was a joke about it being possible to displace libido in repetitive activities like knitting etc. "Industry" was used in like manner as we say a student is industrious. That the cure for obsessive kakemonomia was one night's ecstatic rumpy-pumpy. Freud refers to one of his colleagues saying much the same thing regarding the well-to-do young ladies who he was attempting to treat.

I carefully avoided choosing my WORD from those 4. And I would never dream of ruining a witticism for the sake of a hyphen.

ATTICUS

After Ted took Thelma CANOEING Ursula sulked.

CANOEING

CELLOPHANE airplanes now often enter into naiomi's garden.



spendius, I suppose we each have our own approach, I just ought to calm down a bit.

CELLOPHANE

Certain elephants laugh loudly, others prefer hawing and NEIGHING elegantly.

NEIGHING

Now everybody is getting HAMSTRUNG in neighbourly gabfest.

HAMSTRUNG

Hardly anyone makes sausage TORTELLINI; rather understandable - noxious gluten.

TORTELLINI

The orderly REALIGNMENT everybody's longingly looking into's not inspiring.

REALIGNMENT

Reactionary expatriots are likely INSURGENTS - guerillas - not mainstream establishment natty toffs.

there, not an X, Y, Z, Q, or LY

INSURGENTS (Thank you Mame)

intimating nightly SURRENDER uncle robert gave eunice nice titillating sensations.

SURRENDER

(anything for you, D)

Somewhat upset, Roger Rabbit entered Nora's daycare eating RASPBERRIES.