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new rule: the next word has to be longer than the previous word. lol
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Anonymous2005-09-05 11:40
superlative
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Anonymous2005-09-05 14:58
einsteinium
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Anonymous2005-09-05 15:35
magnificient
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Anonymous2005-09-05 16:35
toxoplasmosis
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Anonymous2005-09-05 16:41
superluminal
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Anonymous2005-09-06 5:29
lycanthropy
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Anonymous2005-09-06 13:25
yada
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Anonymous2005-09-06 13:44
damn
(hahahaha)
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Anonymous2005-09-06 17:26
Antidisestablishmentarianism
beat that
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Anonymous2005-09-06 18:40
[m]oot
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Anonymous2005-09-07 21:13
tripartite
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Anonymous2005-09-07 22:08
eat
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Anonymous2005-09-07 23:58
eatery
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Anonymous2005-09-07 23:58
reaction
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Anonymous2005-09-08 0:00
schindler
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Anonymous2005-09-08 0:00
lurer
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Anonymous2005-09-08 3:40
ermine
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MJP2005-09-08 10:26
Endoplasmic
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Anonymous2005-09-08 12:07
micropenis
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Anonymous2005-09-08 15:05
is this thread confusing or what?
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Anonymous2005-09-09 0:11
spiderman
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Anonymous2005-09-09 4:57
netherworld
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Anonymous2005-09-09 6:36
no, do it by syllables.
Worldwide
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Anonymous2005-09-09 6:36
identity
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Anonymous2005-09-09 6:36
t-shirt
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Anonymous2005-09-09 6:40
if the last syllable is a one syllable word, drop the consonant. If you're really stuck, use assonance. However, you'll look illiterate when someone else provides your soultion.
Ersatz
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Anonymous2005-09-09 7:23
>>28 Did you sign your post, or is "ersatz" an english word?
a huge set of words get thrown out because english has a lot of words with endings of a particular syllabal that never appears at the front of a word
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Anonymous2005-09-10 1:58
yeah shiritori is designed for japanese.
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Anonymous2005-09-10 22:57
New to the game. "Art" is one syllable. Do I have to use that syllable (which means I use "art" in a longer word) [1], do I go from the last letter [2], or is it disqualified [3]?
>>44
43 doesn't fail...last syllabel of 'Rusticated' is 'ted'.
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Anonymous2005-09-16 0:58
Earth
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Anonymous2005-09-16 1:44
Teddy is stressed, rustica(ted) is not stressed.
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Anonymous2005-09-16 10:08
>>49
sorry..don't know enough english to know about stressed and unstressed. but does it really matter in shiritori? the japanese have tones/pitch but that does not count in shiritori.
JAPANESE HAS 2, LIKE ENGLISH, ONLY YOU MAY HAVE SEVERAL HIGH SYLLABES AND SLIGHTLY MORE COMPLICATED RULES ON THE LAST SYLLABE. CHINESE HAS 4 TONES. CRUISE CONTROL.
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Anonymous2005-09-27 15:02
mandarin: 4 tones
cantonese: 9 tones
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Anonymous2005-09-27 15:47
It is called "pitch accent". Every mora in a word can have high pitch or low pitch and a set of rules determine which pitch mora caries. Pitch accents are sort of in-between tonal and non-tonal.
Stress accent, like in English, makes the syllable longer, louder and higher in pitch than the surrounding syllables. (Does English have general rules regarding stresses?)
The difference between pitch accent and a two-tone system is that words in the two-tone system can have any pattern of tones. That is, tones are an intrinsic part of the syllable like the consonant and vowel -- which leads to the scripts of the languages having information for tone like in many south east asian scripts. Chinese do not have tonal information in their scripts because the script is ideographic though I am sure pinyin does have tonal information.
Both English and Japanese do have pitch accents which does not appear in their respective scripts. I don't think that pitch affects the next word in shiritori in Japanese and therefore stress should not affect the next word in English.
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