Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: A game proposal Message-ID: <7@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 10:43:48 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.7 Posted: Mon Nov 12 10:43:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 08:21:54 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 20 I was reminded of this by the data/musea/colisea discussions. Some friends of mine had a running game to make up items on a menu for a meal, the rules being that each item had to be singular and had to be food. An example: a rouse (singular of rice--the analogy is "mice") [Yes, I know, the items aren't necessarily going to be real words, but that's the fun part.] Anybody have any good ones? I used to argue for "ouse", but no one liked it-- ice isn't exactly food, I suppose, and what would be an ouse--a single molecule? (but then...). I've been trying to remember the 'singular' of "tea", which I think works out to be "te" (if you spell "tea" "ti" and then form the 'singular' as you would for "cognoscenti"...these things work better verbally, I guess). L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: [ISSN 0018-9162 v17 #10 p7, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]