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Started by Delling, February 06, 2009, 10:40:28 AM

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night-owl

To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?


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Quote from: night-owl on February 12, 2009, 04:14:32 AM
To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?
I think it's supposed to be the last letter of one of the words in the name.

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Quote from: night-owl on February 12, 2009, 04:14:32 AM
To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?

The cue is supposed to be the last letter of the name, but it's possible to play a name that might not be believed to be famous without explanation, e.g.

Stephen

Stephen who?

Stephen, the first martyr/from the Bible

In such cases, one would usually expect to play off of the last letter of the name anyway, but what if someone used for instance:

Katherine the Great

do you play off of "e" or "t"? Basically, this is the same as asking if "the Great" is considered part of her name, and I think that's a more legitimate question so to eliminate confusion in such cases I suggested underlining the letter from which play was to continue. (A good alternative example that just occurred to me: King Henry VIII, or King Henry the Eighth, which letter do you proceed from?) Another good use for this that I hadn't thought of before would be cases of inversion such as "Mandela, Nelson."


Quote from: Petra Rocks on February 06, 2009, 08:45:11 PM
Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P

Famous characters are perfectly legitimate. :)
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Quote from: Delling on February 12, 2009, 07:30:32 AM
Norm, from Cheers
Quote from: night-owl on February 12, 2009, 04:14:32 AM
To underline or not to underline-that is the question.
Let me sort this out. So the rule is that ONLY the last letter of your guy should be used as a cue? as in playing a word chain? I browsed the thread and I thought I saw cues both at the end and the middle- whuch sugggests the cue is not only the last letter but can be any letter- which is the point of underlining, is it not?

The cue is supposed to be the last letter of the name, but it's possible to play a name that might not be believed to be famous without explanation, e.g.

Stephen

Stephen who?

Stephen, the first martyr/from the Bible

In such cases, one would usually expect to play off of the last letter of the name anyway, but what if someone used for instance:

Katherine the Great

do you play off of "e" or "t"? Basically, this is the same as asking if "the Great" is considered part of her name, and I think that's a more legitimate question so to eliminate confusion in such cases I suggested underlining the letter from which play was to continue. (A good alternative example that just occurred to me: King Henry VIII, or King Henry the Eighth, which letter do you proceed from?) Another good use for this that I hadn't thought of before would be cases of inversion such as "Mandela, Nelson."


Quote from: Petra Rocks on February 06, 2009, 08:45:11 PM
Romulus (maybe bending the rules a little bit since it's debatable if he existed) ;P

Famous characters are perfectly legitimate. :)


Ok, understood.

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Delling

Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

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night-owl

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night-owl

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I assume we're always to take the anglicised version of the name? :)

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Delling

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People might run into issues if we asked them to play off of a rho or a xi or anything Cyrillic for that matter. XD :P
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Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

night-owl

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Précieuse and salonnière! :D
"In cases of doubt about language, it is ordinarily best to consult women."-Vaugelas
Space! :D Extraterrestrium! :D Espace! :D

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"Take it from someone who knows sick:  licking corpses is going waaay beyond demented."

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night-owl

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Deloria

 
Holy Roman Empress
Queen of *all* Albion
Précieuse and salonnière! :D
"In cases of doubt about language, it is ordinarily best to consult women."-Vaugelas
Space! :D Extraterrestrium! :D Espace! :D

Delling

Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87