September 2013 Discussion Thread

[Brûlée]

I'm loving the design on today's curly-tailed dog! It's simple, but so lovely.

My hint of the day is:
Little Red Riding Hood, The Prince and the Pauper, Harry Potter.

Let's see....

Those are all fairy tales, aren't they? Or stories, more so. I'm going to try and see the similarities of the stories.

Little red riding hood is about a girl who has to deliver cookies to her grandmother, however, a big bad wolf plans to foil her. I had to use Wikipedia to even see what the prince and the pauper was, but it's pretty much a prince realizing that the life of a pauper is bad? Very bad summary. And harry potter is a long series, which I haven't even finished, so I don't want to look up for spoilers.

But, I this might be a bit far-fetched, but I think the hint means something about disguises. The wolf disguises as grandma, the pauper disguises as the prince, and vice versa, and I'm sure harry has disguised before. Plus, the hidden hint.

This probably isn't even close to the hint, but that's my guess. I'm probably overanalyzing it.

[Verdana]

You guys are presenting really interesting ideas, but they're on the wrong track. I'm not going to give any more hints on this one, though, and no hints until this is solved.

Just remember that I like wordplay.

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The hint in your siggy confuses me Verdana XD

[atriaka]

Until this thread started, I had no idea that you could type in transparent.
Weeeeeeee~

~♚

Me too ;D
had to experiment a little bit until I found out how to write transparent


I like this pup really. The markings are beautiful


Grow little ratties! I want to know what you really are!

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o.o you can type in transparent? How?

on topic;
I am loving this

[llamadelrey]

LRRH, PATP, HP.
they scream wolf to me but that isn't word play.

List of forms of word play
[[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of techniques used in word play with Wikipedia articles.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.]]
Technique that involve the phonetic values of words
Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) of a phrase as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi).
Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing
Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words
Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words
Assonance: matching vowel sounds
Consonance: matching consonant sounds
Holorime: a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phrase
Spoonerism: a switch of two sounds in two different words (cf. sananmuunnos)
Techniques that involve the letters
Acronym: abbreviations formed by combining the initial components in a phrase or name
RAS syndrome: repetition of a word by using it both as a word alone and as a part of the acronym
Recursive acronym: an acronym that has the acronym itself as one of its components
Acrostic: a writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line can be put together to spell out another message
Mesostic: a writing in which a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text
Word square: a series of letters arranged in the form of a square that could be read both vertically and horizontally
Backronym: a phrase back-formed by treating a word that is originally not an initialism or acronym as one
Replacement backronym: a phrase back-formed from an existing initialism or acronym that is originally an abbreviation with another meaning
Anagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase
Ambigram: a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down
Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase
Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase
Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram
Chronogram: a phrase or sentence in which some letters can be interpreted as numerals and rearranged to stand for a particular date
Lipogram: a writing in which certain letter is missing
Univocalic: a type of poetry that uses only one vowel
Palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction
Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once
Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words
Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin
Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings
Autogram: a sentence that describes itself
Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning
Neologism: creating new words
Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes
Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else
Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms
Pun: deliberately mixing two similar-sounding words
Slang: the use of informal words or expressions
Techniques that involve the manipulation of the entire sentence or passage
Dog Latin
Language game: a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear
Pig Latin
Ubbi dubbi
Techniques that involve the formation of a name
Ananym: a name with reversed letters of an existing name
Aptronym: a name that aptly represents a person or character
Charactonym: a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character
Eponym: applying a person's name to a place
Pseudonym: an artificial fictitious name, used as an alternative to one's legal name
Sobriquet: a popularized nickname
Techniques that involves figure of speech
Conversion (word formation): a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class
Dysphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a harsher tone over one with a more polite tone
Euphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a more polite tone over one with a harsher tone
Kenning: circumlocution used in Old Norse and Icelandic poetry
Paraprosdokian: a sentence whose latter part is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first

#detirmined

[Windi_1]

I'm loving the design on today's curly-tailed dog! It's simple, but so lovely.

My hint of the day is:
Little Red Riding Hood, The Prince and the Pauper, Harry Potter.

Let's see....

Those are all fairy tales, aren't they? Or stories, more so. I'm going to try and see the similarities of the stories.

Little red riding hood is about a girl who has to deliver cookies to her grandmother, however, a big bad wolf plans to foil her. I had to use Wikipedia to even see what the prince and the pauper was, but it's pretty much a prince realizing that the life of a pauper is bad? Very bad summary. And harry potter is a long series, which I haven't even finished, so I don't want to look up for spoilers.

But, I this might be a bit far-fetched, but I think the hint means something about disguises. The wolf disguises as grandma, the pauper disguises as the prince, and vice versa, and I'm sure harry has disguised before. Plus, the hidden hint.

This probably isn't even close to the hint, but that's my guess. I'm probably overanalyzing it.

People...kids...Red Riding Hood (cloak), Prince and the Pauper (cloak/cape) Harry Potter (cloak/cape)

[~AquaRose~]

esjpvhdfljvbn i cant...i just...they are so amazing! <3 -dies-

[cαkε]

We can talk in transparency? That's new. e-e

I'm excited for tonight. x3 Wonder what we'll have in a few hours. *gets pumped*

['Danny']

Super adorable! I wonder what staff pets will grow today... :3

Love the staff pets so far. Super cute