synonym game.....
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here goes.....I guess my baby's picking up words, so I thought I'd have a game where we exhaust the possibilities in language for synonyms with a suggestion and we stop when we think we have enough synonyms......I'm going to start with an easy one, and people can use Thesaurus if they want........I just look at my wire paper bin beside my desk, which never gets any use, cos I'm so fastidious I won't let anything settle in it before I move it to the trashcan quick smart, so it just sits there empty and so alone, but the bathroom bin gets filled up with toilet tubes very quickly.........so my word is 'bin, rubbish, garbage, trashcan, trash, rubbish bin etc.....' if anyone can think of any more synonyms, please post them.......I got some more......refuse......detritus.....when one word is finished, we'll move on to another one
....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
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As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
(always has shit i dont need or want)
how many synonyms can there be for rubbish, or garbage bin, I like yours Fins.....
waste disposal unit.....heheheheheh.....when we've thoroughly finished with rubbish, move on to another word......I think night/evening/dark would be a good one, but it's still open
Vesper is a good word!
dusk is the middle english word for dark.
twilight.
I've a feeling that might be tautological. You'd need to use an adjective in place of vesperal, that wasn't synonymical, for it to work. The adjective should evaluate a particular aspect of the dusk, rather than just describe its dusk-ness synonymically as vesperal. (Chomsky has written quite a bit about the differences between evaluative and descriptive adjectives.)
That's a great exercise right there: Finding a near-synonymical adjective to go with a noun, without effecting a tautology!
As an example of another synonym, there's 'nocturn' (as distinct from 'nocturne' which is nightmusic).
That's a good one. I'll think on it. I'm thinking of Maying festivals in medieval England, where people across the social spectrum of a then less class-defined, pre-capitalist society, come nightfall, would all go out into the open air in the summer for the getting of a "Green Gown" (ie, some rumpy-pumpy in the fields at night). The whole idea of Maying was imbued with magical notions of fertility ritual, decadance and nocturnal carnival. Of course, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is all about Maying (usually in June), and here in Cambridge June is the time of the May balls when students stay up all night and party on plush lawns. I'm going to read up about the convention of Maying in a book I have on Shakespearean sources, and see what comes to mind. Are synonymical phrases allowed as well as words?
I'll be back on tomorrow with info! Night.
Yes, I had thought something was not quite right when I wrote it because they are similar, but did not know this was called tautological! if you think of a near-synonymical adjective to go with a noun, without effecting a tautology, please post it.