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05-31-2006, 04:01 AM
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Right, I don't know if this has been done before, so please tell me if it has.
Anywho, what we do is interpret a word another way that is humourous, like say, a different meaning of one of it's components, regardless of where it is along the line, which alters the meaning amusingly.
Or you can take a word's modern components (by which I mean it's most recent parts, and not it's origins and such), and change them to mean something else.
If anyone has any more types to add just say, but the main point of this thread is humour, though I'm sure we'll learn a few things about the etymologies of words along the way. 
I realise my explanation may have been a bit sketchy, but I'm not as good at making games as some of you are.
Anyway, have fun!
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05-31-2006, 05:40 AM
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Perhaps you could give us an example so we were clear on how it should be done......you could then give us something to start off with 
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05-31-2006, 05:51 AM
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1st word; Mechanical
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05-31-2006, 06:05 AM
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hope I get this right 
2nd word; Toy
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05-31-2006, 06:14 AM
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Sorry, I think I must have explained it terribly.
It's not a word assosciation game, it's altering the meanings of words by changing their roots and such.
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05-31-2006, 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Damuna_Nova Sorry, I think I must have explained it terribly.
It's not a word assosciation game, it's altering the meanings of words by changing their roots and such. | figured  ...ok then....show me how its done.....Ill sit and watch you work 
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seriously I dont know how they sleep during the day, I have a twitch everytime I hear a loud sound as I slumber, everytime ....Im just waiting to pounce on the poor mortal who creates a sound while I sleep in during the day. /rant
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05-31-2006, 01:26 PM
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Do you mean this?
Agog: an Estonian burglar?
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05-31-2006, 01:30 PM
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Though that is amusing, I don't get it.
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05-31-2006, 01:37 PM
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Damuna,
maybe if you gave us some examples?
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05-31-2006, 01:48 PM
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Well, I don't really have any ready at hand. :\
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05-31-2006, 02:01 PM
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Ketchup: what a south african plays when he is behind?
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The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational asked readers to take any word
from the dictionary and alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one
letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are the 2005 winners:
1. Cashtration (n): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite period.
2. Intaxication (n): Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
you realize it was your money to start with.
3. Reintarnation (n): Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
4. Bozone (n): The substance surrounding stupid people that stopsbright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer,unfortunately, shows little sign of
breaking down in the near future.
5. Foreploy (n): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.
6. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.
8. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is, like, sending off all
these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's,
like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming
only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido (n): All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n): The frantic dance you perform just after you've
accidentally walked through a spider web.
[That's more than one changed, added, or subtracted letter, isn't it?]
16. Beelzebug (n): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your
bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the
fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
18. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an *******.
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Agreed, still not quite what I meant, but I guess we could do those too.  | | |
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Originally Posted by Damuna_Nova Agreed, still not quite what I meant, but I guess we could do those too. | * spots Cadmus*
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