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The Architect

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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #375 on: February 23, 2010, 09:18:13 am »

I personally decided to not help with this. It's not really a story so much as a ramble.

As long as people are intentionally disrupting it because they think it's funny to be "random", it isn't really any fun. It would only work if people were willing to work together and actually be smart and clever, which is what makes good humor.
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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #376 on: February 23, 2010, 11:22:19 am »

I changed a sentence because it had a double negative, they ignored me.
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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #377 on: February 23, 2010, 11:28:30 am »

Also, about every third person posts two words.

I mean, I understand where they're coming from. They want to have a certain word come in right after theirs. But that's nothow the game works. If you don't want to just post a "the" then wait for someone else to bite the bullet.

That is, assuming these folks realize they're posting two words. I could see how you'd miss that in the heat of the night moment.
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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #378 on: February 23, 2010, 11:30:44 am »

No, that's a rule. An operator doesn't count as a word. The English language is odd that way; we use two words for one quite often.

So we made a rule.
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« Reply #379 on: February 23, 2010, 11:40:04 am »

I didn't notice that rule change. You'll note that the OP posted just an operator.

And I'm not sure how one can argue that "the cat" is one word. Perhaps the operator doesn't contain much value in itself, and exists chiefly in support of the word beside it, but clearly.

The.

Cat.

Two words.

Now in English we do have contractions, and compound words, and hyphenated words, and words that contain a great deal of meaning.

But "the" surely is a three-letter word regardless of its individual contribution to the meaning of the sentence.
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« Reply #380 on: February 23, 2010, 12:10:01 pm »

It doesn't really matter whether you like the rule, and I don't want to go look up whatever page it was on. It's a rule. No use complaining about it.

I'm not going to get into a grammatical dispute over the relevance of your argument :-P
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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #381 on: February 23, 2010, 12:24:04 pm »

The word "the" as a lone word isnt proper in understanding, where as "cat" is more where it describes an animal.

Sentences require meaning and understandability, words do not alone require cohesion in the slightest.

The challenge here would be to add words to create cohesion, not remove from it.
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« Reply #382 on: February 23, 2010, 01:56:10 pm »

The challenge here would be to add words to create cohesion, not remove from it.

People generally missed that it would be much more interesting and funny to see what kind of story we could write than to simply crap all over it.
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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #383 on: February 23, 2010, 03:04:54 pm »

Quote from: The Architect
It doesn't really matter whether you like the rule, and I don't want to go look up whatever page it was on. It's a rule. No use complaining about it.

I'm not going to get into a grammatical dispute over the relevance of your argument :-P

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I didn't really think there was an argument. Besides, it's just a funny forum game. I'll continue posting one word regardless of whatever rules change came up. Skipping operators doesn't seem all that unreasonable, but I'm fine posting the occasional "the" and leaving it for the next player.
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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #384 on: February 23, 2010, 05:27:16 pm »

It's not aggression at all. Interpret it literally, including the word "argument", and you will see that. I don't appreciate the accusation.

a : a reason given in proof or rebuttal b : discourse intended to persuade

I'm sure you know this already; you've simply overlooked it this time.
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« Reply #385 on: February 23, 2010, 06:20:28 pm »

It's okay, I'm used to the Internet by now. Consider it dropped.
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« Reply #386 on: February 23, 2010, 06:22:48 pm »

It's okay, I'm used to the Internet by now. Consider it dropped.

Done. Anyone have some interest in continuing this ramble?
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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #387 on: February 23, 2010, 07:25:41 pm »

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Re: One Word Story
« Reply #388 on: February 23, 2010, 10:47:58 pm »

Also, what happens when we reach the character limit for a single post?
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« Reply #389 on: February 23, 2010, 10:52:51 pm »

This was supposed to be a serious story?
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