Philosophy
Let's try this again. It's based on those obnoxious corporate team-building exercises where folks have to work together on a task.
Last night after dinner, TheWife and the short people and I took the word "basketball" and found 101 words that could be made by rearranging the letters. Plurals are allowed, but proper nouns are not. Leave words in the comments and see if the collective mind can top us.
Here's the rule, no one can leave more than seven words, but you can leave hints to others provided they are not absurdly transparent.
- The Necessity Of Curse Words
The shorter of the short people has become fascinated with curse words. The idea that there are culturally forbidden sounds makes these sounds interesting. As a reuslt, he's invented his own, nork (the sound made by the Siamese elephants in Tim Conway's...
- Alternating Vowels And Consonants
Driving in this morning, the shorter of the short people got very excited that the word "cemetery" alternated consonants and vowels. We tried to think of more and longer words that followed the pattern. The longest ones we could come up with were "originality"...
- Bidirectional Words
So, this morning driving into school, the older of the short people asks me if there is a name for the class of words that spell a different word backwards. Palindromes are the special case where it is the same word in either direction, but what of the...
- Silent Letters
The English language is an odd mishmash of German, Dutch, Norse, French, Celtic, and Latin. So many pieces that don't fit together so well have resulted in a language that is really odd. Consider how many words in English have utterly irrelevant letter...
- Pigeon Holing Behaviorists?
I am not sure what to make of this. It's relevance seams worthless...just how far can one take statistical data to human development? "Rare words 'author's fingerprint'" December 19th, 2009 BBC NEWS Analyses of classic authors' works...
Philosophy
Team Building: Boggleball
Let's try this again. It's based on those obnoxious corporate team-building exercises where folks have to work together on a task.
Last night after dinner, TheWife and the short people and I took the word "basketball" and found 101 words that could be made by rearranging the letters. Plurals are allowed, but proper nouns are not. Leave words in the comments and see if the collective mind can top us.
Here's the rule, no one can leave more than seven words, but you can leave hints to others provided they are not absurdly transparent.
- The Necessity Of Curse Words
The shorter of the short people has become fascinated with curse words. The idea that there are culturally forbidden sounds makes these sounds interesting. As a reuslt, he's invented his own, nork (the sound made by the Siamese elephants in Tim Conway's...
- Alternating Vowels And Consonants
Driving in this morning, the shorter of the short people got very excited that the word "cemetery" alternated consonants and vowels. We tried to think of more and longer words that followed the pattern. The longest ones we could come up with were "originality"...
- Bidirectional Words
So, this morning driving into school, the older of the short people asks me if there is a name for the class of words that spell a different word backwards. Palindromes are the special case where it is the same word in either direction, but what of the...
- Silent Letters
The English language is an odd mishmash of German, Dutch, Norse, French, Celtic, and Latin. So many pieces that don't fit together so well have resulted in a language that is really odd. Consider how many words in English have utterly irrelevant letter...
- Pigeon Holing Behaviorists?
I am not sure what to make of this. It's relevance seams worthless...just how far can one take statistical data to human development? "Rare words 'author's fingerprint'" December 19th, 2009 BBC NEWS Analyses of classic authors' works...