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Message board > What happened to WOD????
What happened to WOD????
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edrodmedina
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What happened to WOD????
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I �ve been ill for the past few days and I come back and can �t seem to find the WOD... Que pasa? |
10 Jan 2011
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tastybrain
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This is my fault. I send my sincerest apologies to everyone. I posted a new WOD, but haven �t chosen a winner yet.
My entire family and I (including my 7 month old son) fell sick over the weekend and I �ve had my hands full taking care of them.
I �ll go choose the winner now. I �m very sorry to have made the Word of the Day into a Word of the Extended Weekend!!! Please don �t hate me forever! I �m only human.
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10 Jan 2011
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tastybrain
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I �ve chosen the winner now..... It �s douglas (as I posted in the original thread). Just thought I �d add it here since the old thread isn �t on the front page of the message board anymore.
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10 Jan 2011
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lizsantiago
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you �ve been playing this for quiet some time, can we try another game? |
10 Jan 2011
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imanito
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ed and tastybrain I hope you are feeling better .
Liz I love your idea of playing a new game but please keep WOD alive cuz I love it and I think it �s really interesting and beneficial.
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10 Jan 2011
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almaz
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How about something along the lines of updating Ambrose Bierce �s The Devil �s Dictionary? There �s potential for adding to the corpus, if nothing else :)
(eg ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know
well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of
friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when
he is rich or famous.)
You can obviously be as sardonic, satirical, sceptical or even as sarcastic as you want - as long as it �s humorous and not racist or sectarian (small-mindedness shouldn �t be tolerated either, but that �s a hard call here...). An example close to home:
ESLprintables: to all intents and purposes, a website where English teachers can exchange resources and ideas. In reality, an insidious, virtual drug which renders its users (known as �members �) subject to a constant compulsion to �turn on � other teachers to its �delights � (warning: this may, or may not, cause sleeplessness).
OK, not particularly funny, but you get the idea.
Anyway, someone (perhaps the winner of the last WOD) could kick off with a word and we could take it from there? Or not - it obviously requires a wee bit more thought than just splitting a word up into its constituent parts, recombining them and coming up with something �daffy� or �hilarious�.
Alex
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10 Jan 2011
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pilarmham
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That reminds me of Flaubert �s Stupidiarium ( Dictionary of Received Ideas, perhaps?). Excellent proposal! |
11 Jan 2011
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zailda
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Or maybe something like we have in Portuguese, I don �t know if there �s the same in English:
cigarette - a small piece of paper with an ember at one side and an idiot at the other. |
11 Jan 2011
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MoodyMoody
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A little bit funnier English version of your definition:
cigarette: a roll of tobacco with an ash on one end and an ass on the other.
I also love The Devil �s Dictionary and have it on my Kindle. |
11 Jan 2011
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