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Author:  Whythawye [ July 18th, 2011, 11:22 am ]
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Effuvescent and elaborate greetings and salubrious benificences be exponentiated to the massed multitudes of the Holy Worlds Christian Fantasy Forum of God-honoring Creativity!

* bows low *

May you all in your sundry ranks be made apprised and cognizant of yet another additional Holy Worlds project to challenge and stretch you all beyond your individual regions of lackadaisical complaisance. So rise and bow thine ears to hearken to mine orated elucidations of the gauntlet we collectively cast before thy collected and vacillating masses.

The most renowned and illustrious Holy Worlds Community of Christ-centered Creativity in all beleaguered genres is proud to present for your consideration and laudation our initial and seminal arrangement of lexicographical oppositions to the end of tantalizing the enlisted competitors with the exaggerated reward of accomplishment and renown! Would this imply that there might be a possibility of repetitions of this particular flavor of insanity in store for your palate in future times? Embroil yourself in the riddle, and you might elucidate the correct conclusion on that head.

At an undisclosed moment in close proximity to the present the specifications of the aforesaid extravagant event will be expatiated for your delight and cogitation. The immediate gist of the projected concept will be for each of you individually and collectively at disjointed times to be presented with a combination of letters with an undisclosed meaning of which you are assigned the monumental task of deciphering without the external aids of any means not cephalic or communal within the constraints of the quest dictated. And so I charge thee to begin thy literary research and other desperate learning measures posthaste to the end of expanding and elevating your verbiage in varieties both working and reserved!

There will be measures undertaken with consummate care to ensure the capability of enlistment for every member, whether gargantuan in linguistic prowess or but newly budded on the tree of sesquipedalianism. So fear not (or quake exceedingly, it is thine own cardiovascular tremors, not mine own), and elevate thine internal elation, hysteria, and other varieties of hullabaloo to a fevered pitch!

May your verbiage be expanded and embellished beyond what is even extraordinarily reasonable.

Many showered blessing be upon you all in the name of Jesus Christ,
Jaymes Lauser aka Sir Emeth Mimetes aka Undead Cyborg Knight of the Abyss of Adamant

Author:  Airianna Valenshia [ July 18th, 2011, 11:49 am ]
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You do realize not everyone speaks Jay talk, right? :D

Author:  Svensteel Mimetes [ July 18th, 2011, 11:49 am ]
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Hmm. Quite good presentation/dramatization! And do know I am a man who likes long words... but I quite frankly could not understand a word of that!

Are you saying that it would be good if I speak with a larger vocabulary? :dieshappy: :? :dieshappy:

Author:  Whythawye [ July 18th, 2011, 11:54 am ]
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Airianna Valenshia wrote:
You do realize not everyone speaks Jay talk, right? :D


Well it was deemed appropriate by some people that an announcement regarding a dictionary tournament ought to be obfuscated with verbiage of a monolithic nature... wait, sorry, I got stuck. :P

Someone wanted me to use big words in this one because it is talking about a big words contest. :D

Author:  Svensteel Mimetes [ July 18th, 2011, 12:13 pm ]
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Haha, I saw what you were doing! ;)
Thank you for explaining, Jay! :dieshappy:

Author:  Whythawye [ July 18th, 2011, 12:42 pm ]
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Svensteel priest of Kylor wrote:
Haha, I saw what you were doing! ;)
Thank you for explaining, Jay! :dieshappy:


No problem. :)

Author:  Lady Elanor [ July 18th, 2011, 12:43 pm ]
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Yea I read it once, thought...What? Then I read it again and realised what it was about. You should have put a translation after it, Jay. ;)

Author:  Kiev Shawn [ July 18th, 2011, 12:46 pm ]
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Airianna Valenshia wrote:
You do realize not everyone speaks Jay talk, right? :D


One of whom would be me. ;) I dug around until I could find the discussion thread. ;)

Sounds fun! Hopefully I'll be able to participate. :D

Author:  Whythawye [ July 18th, 2011, 12:55 pm ]
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Anyone who wants the challenge can post a translation. :)

Author:  Camille Esther [ July 18th, 2011, 1:16 pm ]
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!!!

Now that was interesting... Although I must admit that I thought it was going to be a code-cracking contest, not a long word contest... :rofl:

Author:  Whythawye [ July 18th, 2011, 1:39 pm ]
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Camille Esther wrote:
!!!

Now that was interesting... Although I must admit that I thought it was going to be a code-cracking contest, not a long word contest... :rofl:


* chuckles * It's a dictionary contest, with people matching up their vocabularies against each other. :)

Author:  Elly [ July 18th, 2011, 2:21 pm ]
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What a glorious talk!

(Although, of course, I had to search for what it really meant. . . . 'til I figured out it was the dictionary tournament! ;) )

Author:  Airianna Valenshia [ July 18th, 2011, 2:34 pm ]
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Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote:
Airianna Valenshia wrote:
You do realize not everyone speaks Jay talk, right? :D


Well it was deemed appropriate by some people that an announcement regarding a dictionary tournament ought to be obfuscated with verbiage of a monolithic nature... wait, sorry, I got stuck. :P

Someone wanted me to use big words in this one because it is talking about a big words contest. :D



Oh I know that, I was just making the statement that not everyone was going to get it. :D


Never mind me.

Author:  Varon [ July 18th, 2011, 2:58 pm ]
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Jay's already working on showing his skill.

Author:  Aragorn [ July 18th, 2011, 4:12 pm ]
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I comprehended the glorious matter that the obfuscations elucidated. :cool: (Except for a few words, but they weren't enough to obfuscate my overall comprehension of the glorious matter that was elucidated. ;))

Author:  BushMaid [ July 18th, 2011, 4:20 pm ]
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I took one look at that, started reading it, and promptly gave up. :shock: I reverted to skimming.

Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote:
The immediate gist of the projected concept...

Well I'd like the immediate gist of what you just said. :roll: Thankfully though, I already know what it's about, and thank goodness I'm not participating! :shock: I used to think I was a pretty good speller until I read that. :P

Author:  Elly [ July 18th, 2011, 4:38 pm ]
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In short: There's going to be a dictionary tournament.

(Much better, huh?) ;)

Author:  BushMaid [ July 18th, 2011, 4:52 pm ]
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Yes Elly. I do believe at times, less really is more. ;)

Author:  Airianna Valenshia [ July 18th, 2011, 5:43 pm ]
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*tries not to spew the water she just swallowed * I get my kicks from HW. :D

Author:  Svensteel Mimetes [ July 18th, 2011, 7:24 pm ]
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Concerning rules: Does speaking long words in latin and such count?
And... are we allowed to use thesauruses? Or dictionaries?

Author:  BushMaid [ July 18th, 2011, 7:36 pm ]
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I think that defeats the purpose. ;)

Author:  Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ July 18th, 2011, 10:22 pm ]
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I'm surprised no one's guessed who put Jay up to this, considering who it is who loves to confuse you with riddles... figure it out! 'tis great fun. More information on it later, for now keep doing what you're doing now. Talk. Chatter. Be excited. Translate. Interpret. Define. Because that's what it's all about...

Author:  Svensteel Mimetes [ July 18th, 2011, 10:45 pm ]
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Quote:
I think that defeats the purpose.


Aww! ;) :P

Author:  Rachel Newhouse [ July 19th, 2011, 10:17 am ]
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Jonathan Garner wrote:
(Except for a few words, but they weren't enough to obfuscate my overall comprehension of the glorious matter that was elucidated. ;))


This is the key to comprehensive and effective reading - to be able to figure out the gist of what people are talking about by context, even if you can't define all of their words. :D

Of course, that won't help you for a dictionary tournament...

Here's a hint - if you look up and define all of the words Jay used in his post, you'll be off to a good start. :roll:

Author:  Whythawye [ July 19th, 2011, 10:51 am ]
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Philadelphia wrote:
Here's a hint - if you look up and define all of the words Jay used in his post, you'll be off to a good start. :roll:


A very good start. :D

Author:  Riniel Jasmina [ July 19th, 2011, 11:11 am ]
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Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote:
Effuvescent and elaborate greetings and salubrious benificences be exponentiated to the massed multitudes of the Holy Worlds Christian Fantasy Forum of God-honoring Creativity!

* bows low *

May you all in your sundry ranks be made apprised and cognizant of yet another additional Holy Worlds project to challenge and stretch you all beyond your individual regions of lackadaisical complaisance. So rise and bow thine ears to hearken to mine orated elucidations of the gauntlet we collectively cast before thy collected and vacillating masses.

The most renowned and illustrious Holy Worlds Community of Christ-centered Creativity in all beleaguered genres is proud to present for your consideration and laudation our initial and seminal arrangement of lexicographical oppositions to the end of tantalizing the enlisted competitors with the exaggerated reward of accomplishment and renown! Would this imply that there might be a possibility of repetitions of this particular flavor of insanity in store for your palate in future times? Embroil yourself in the riddle, and you might elucidate the correct conclusion on that head.

At an undisclosed moment in close proximity to the present the specifications of the aforesaid extravagant event will be expatiated for your delight and cogitation. The immediate gist of the projected concept will be for each of you individually and collectively at disjointed times to be presented with a combination of letters with an undisclosed meaning of which you are assigned the monumental task of deciphering without the external aids of any means not cephalic or communal within the constraints of the quest dictated. And so I charge thee to begin thy literary research and other desperate learning measures posthaste to the end of expanding and elevating your verbiage in varieties both working and reserved!

There will be measures undertaken with consummate care to ensure the capability of enlistment for every member, whether gargantuan in linguistic prowess or but newly budded on the tree of sesquipedalianism. So fear not (or quake exceedingly, it is thine own cardiovascular tremors, not mine own), and elevate thine internal elation, hysteria, and other varieties of hullabaloo to a fevered pitch!

May your verbiage be expanded and embellished beyond what is even extraordinarily reasonable.

Many showered blessing be upon you all in the name of Jesus Christ,
Jaymes Lauser aka Sir Emeth Mimetes aka Undead Cyborg Knight of the Abyss of Adamant


Okay here are a few translations into various common tongues:

English:

Dear Holy Worlds,

*bows*

Everyone get ready for our next great challenge! We will be engaging in dictionary warfare for entertainment and honor. It will be crazy. There will be more information later but basically we'll randomly quiz you and you can't use outside sources. Get studying! Don't worry, we'll personalize it to your level of vocabulary.

Hope you learn stuff!

In Christ
Jay

Gangster:

Sup HW,

Having a word battle, you in?

peace,
Jay

and finally, in Bethy speak:

OMG DICTIONARY FIGHT!!! :rofl: :rofl: :D :rofl: :rofl:

P.S. You spelled beleaguered wrong...

Author:  Bethany Faith [ July 19th, 2011, 11:20 am ]
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*laughs* Foul. Bethy doesn't like to use chat speak, hence she hardly ever uses acronyms. ;)

Author:  Whythawye [ July 19th, 2011, 11:25 am ]
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Svensteel priest of Kylor wrote:
Concerning rules: Does speaking long words in latin and such count?
And... are we allowed to use thesauruses? Or dictionaries?


We are working on the rules, but you won't be able to use study aids during the contest, only in the training. Which is now. ;)

Haha, thanks Riniel. Not all of it is strictly precise or accurate, but it's pretty close. :D

Ah, yeah my spell-checker was busted and I missed that one. :P Thanks for catching it. :)

Author:  Riniel Jasmina [ July 19th, 2011, 1:33 pm ]
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Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote:
Haha, thanks Riniel. Not all of it is strictly precise or accurate, but it's pretty close. :D

Ah, yeah my spell-checker was busted and I missed that one. :P Thanks for catching it. :)


I paraphrased a bit. It's like the translations of the Bible that give you the concept but not the word for word.

Bethy, I was mostly going for the hyper. ;)

Author:  Airianna Valenshia [ July 19th, 2011, 2:12 pm ]
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I think everyone knows who told Jay to do this, Katie. They just weren't asked to guess.

Author:  BushMaid [ July 19th, 2011, 4:43 pm ]
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Riniel, that was hilarious! :rofl:

Author:  Calenmiriel [ July 20th, 2011, 10:07 pm ]
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I cried inside my mind when I read this. *tears* ;D

I read it twice and I'm still not quite sure what I read... :shock:

~Calen

Author:  Svensteel Mimetes [ July 21st, 2011, 11:48 am ]
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Wow Rineil! H-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s!

Author:  Elanhil [ July 21st, 2011, 7:20 pm ]
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Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote:
Effuvescent and elaborate greetings and salubrious benificences be exponentiated to the massed multitudes of the Holy Worlds Christian Fantasy Forum of God-honoring Creativity!

* bows low *

May you all in your sundry ranks be made apprised and cognizant of yet another additional Holy Worlds project to challenge and stretch you all beyond your individual regions of lackadaisical complaisance. So rise and bow thine ears to hearken to mine orated elucidations of the gauntlet we collectively cast before thy collected and vacillating masses.

The most renowned and illustrious Holy Worlds Community of Christ-centered Creativity in all beleaguered genres is proud to present for your consideration and laudation our initial and seminal arrangement of lexicographical oppositions to the end of tantalizing the enlisted competitors with the exaggerated reward of accomplishment and renown! Would this imply that there might be a possibility of repetitions of this particular flavor of insanity in store for your palate in future times? Embroil yourself in the riddle, and you might elucidate the correct conclusion on that head.

At an undisclosed moment in close proximity to the present the specifications of the aforesaid extravagant event will be expatiated for your delight and cogitation. The immediate gist of the projected concept will be for each of you individually and collectively at disjointed times to be presented with a combination of letters with an undisclosed meaning of which you are assigned the monumental task of deciphering without the external aids of any means not cephalic or communal within the constraints of the quest dictated. And so I charge thee to begin thy literary research and other desperate learning measures posthaste to the end of expanding and elevating your verbiage in varieties both working and reserved!

There will be measures undertaken with consummate care to ensure the capability of enlistment for every member, whether gargantuan in linguistic prowess or but newly budded on the tree of sesquipedalianism. So fear not (or quake exceedingly, it is thine own cardiovascular tremors, not mine own), and elevate thine internal elation, hysteria, and other varieties of hullabaloo to a fevered pitch!

May your verbiage be expanded and embellished beyond what is even extraordinarily reasonable.

Many showered blessing be upon you all in the name of Jesus Christ,
Jaymes Lauser aka Sir Emeth Mimetes aka Undead Cyborg Knight of the Abyss of Adamant
A warm welcome of good health be multiplied among you all!

*bows low*

I'd like to make known to you all in your diverse ranks of one more HW project to keep you occupied, if your own stories or other hobbies are suffering from a lack of interest. So listen up, because I am telling you about the aforementioned contest!

The very distinguished Holy Worlds and all of its sides is proud to present for you the first round of the dictionary challenge, which will have you eagerly involved, attempting to be the winner, who will receive recognition as his reward. Does that mean that there could be multiple rounds to this contest? Involve yourself in the game, and you may find the answer to the previous question.

Sometime in the near future the details of the previously mentioned contest will be presented. The idea is that each of you, alone and on teams, will be given a word which you are to define, without use of a dictionary or other people not in the contest. So start brushing up on your English textbooks or any other means means right away to improve your vocabulary!

We will take precautions to make sure that every member who to takes part in the contest will be able to enjoy themselves, with either a wide vocabulary or but a small selection of words. Don't worry, (Or do, who am I to tell you how to regulate your emotions?) and post below how excited you are about the whole thing!

Be sure to speak so that no-one can understand you like I am.

In Christ,
Sir Emeth Mimetes

--There, that oughta get me something...it's a full word-for-word translation to simpler terms, and then abridged to remove unnecessary words and to make it coherent. :D

Author:  BushMaid [ July 21st, 2011, 7:40 pm ]
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Elanhil wrote:
Be sure to speak so that no-one can understand you like I am.

Bahahahahaha! :rofl:

Elanhil wrote:
--There, that oughta get me something...it's a full word-for-word translation to simpler terms, and then abridged to remove unnecessary words and to make it coherent. :D

Points to you, Elanhil! :D Thumbs up, brilliant job! :D

Author:  Elanhil [ July 21st, 2011, 8:15 pm ]
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The 'like I am' bit was added. :D

Author:  Bethany (Lady Alina) [ July 21st, 2011, 10:07 pm ]
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Oh wow! Thanks so much for translating Elanhil!!! :o

And yes, I am excited for this! It should be super fun!.
Now, off to read the dictonary.... O.o
;) :dieshappy:

Author:  Bethany (Lady Alina) [ July 21st, 2011, 10:29 pm ]
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For all of the people on Holy Worlds that abhor Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.


*Laughs head off!* Just wanted to put that on to see if any of you can figure that word out without googling it! ........ Like I did..... :P :dieshappy:

Author:  Elanhil [ July 22nd, 2011, 7:21 am ]
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You know, that word technically isn't valid...

(cleverbot gave it to you, didn't he?)

Author:  Bethany (Lady Alina) [ July 22nd, 2011, 9:49 am ]
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Oh.......Oops..... No, I googled longest words and this came up.... :P
Oh well.... :dieshappy:

Author:  Whythawye [ July 22nd, 2011, 11:18 am ]
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Depends on what you are counting. :) It is the longest coined technical word in the English language.

Author:  Elanhil [ July 22nd, 2011, 10:45 pm ]
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It's not an English word. The longest actual word is: antidisestablishmentarianism. :D

Author:  Whythawye [ July 23rd, 2011, 2:24 am ]
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Elanhil wrote:
It's not an English word. The longest actual word is: antidisestablishmentarianism. :D


Actually, it is English. It is actually the longest word to ever appear in an English dictionary.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest non-coined, non-technical word in the English language.

There are lots of different ways to categorize words, and there are longest words in each category. :)

Author:  Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ July 23rd, 2011, 9:51 am ]
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For instance, in the contest we will not be using technical terms, thus eliminating the first long word but including the second.

Author:  Whythawye [ July 23rd, 2011, 10:03 am ]
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Vanya Katerina Jaynin wrote:
For instance, in the contest we will not be using technical terms, thus eliminating the first long word but including the second.


Right. Also excluding electroencephalograph, disappointingly. :( ;)

Author:  Elly [ July 23rd, 2011, 10:10 am ]
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Don't forget, you can add the dictionary pages to the Read-a-Thon. ;)

Author:  Calista Bethelle [ July 23rd, 2011, 1:49 pm ]
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Elanhil wrote:
It's not an English word. The longest actual word is: antidisestablishmentarianism. :D



Ha! I've heard that one!

(And this is Camille, not Calista. My account isn't working, so I'm borrowing hers. She doesn't know it. :cool: )

Author:  Bethany (Lady Alina) [ July 23rd, 2011, 4:14 pm ]
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Same with me, Milly! But I have always wondered how to spell it....

Author:  Elanhil [ July 24th, 2011, 7:27 pm ]
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@Jay: Oh, the recording of electric signals on the head?? A little random, don't you think?

Author:  Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ July 24th, 2011, 8:11 pm ]
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@Jay: I've had one of those tests! :D

eru

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