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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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  • #6092
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I owe a question from earlier so here goes:

    What is colygraphia?

    Any takers?


  • #6093
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Any takers?

    Just from the word form. Coly is a Greek root used in prefixes for prevent. Graphia comes from graphos to write so something that prevents writing. A dyslexic form, or brain injury, that permits reading but hinders writing - although I've never heard of such a thing.


  • #6094
    New Home
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    I looked it up the other day, someone says it's a "makey-uppy" word for something quite real (I don't mean to say that it means "something quite real", but that it's been coined to describe something that didn't have a technical name).


  • #6095
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Just from the word form. Coly is a Greek root used in prefixes for prevent. Graphia comes from graphos to write so something that prevents writing. A dyslexic form, or brain injury, that permits reading but hinders writing - although I've never heard of such a thing.

    I'll give it to you as you're in the ballpark. Its a fancy name for "writers block". Bandied about in the auld author's circles :)


  • #6096
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    I looked it up the other day, someone says it's a "makey-uppy" word for something quite real (I don't mean to say that it means "something quite real", but that it's been coined to describe something that didn't have a technical name).

    This post has given me a case of colygraphia as I have no idea how to respond! :D


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  • #6097
    New Home
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    Ok, not that the cat is out of the bag, I can stop speaking (well, typing) in riddles - the article I found mentioned that writers' block as a condition didn't have a proper technical/medical term, and that some even didn't believe such a thing existed. By calling it Colygraphia it was thought that it might get more recognition. Ok, maybe I'm still speaking in riddles...:p


  • #6098
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The Taiwanese sports star Yani Tseng was ranked as world No. 1 for 109 consecutive weeks from 2011 to 2013, in what sport?


  • #6099
    New Home
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    Ping pong/ table tennis? (please don't say it was fidget spinning...)


  • #6100
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Ping pong/ table tennis? (please don't say it was fidget spinning...)

    I read that as midget spinning and thought 'what the...'

    But no, not ping pong, table tennis (two distinct games) nor fidget spinning.


  • #6101
    New Home
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    :D

    Yo-yo?

    (I always thought they were the same thing - there I go, my one thing learnt today. Is it like billiards and pool, or something?)


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  • #6102
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    :D

    Yo-yo?

    (I always thought they were the same thing - there I go, my one thing learnt today. Is it like billiards and pool, or something?)

    Not Yo-yo. Are there even world rankings for yo-yo?

    If you think I'm going to start explaining the difference between billiards and pool, which will lead to the difference between billiards and snooker and the differentiation between the five types of pool, you have another thing coming. :)


  • #6103
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The Taiwanese sports star Yani Tseng was ranked as world No. 1 for 109 consecutive weeks from 2011 to 2013, in what sport?

    "Many a good walk ruined", cried the naysayers.

    Golf?


  • #6104
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    "Many a good walk ruined", cried the naysayers.

    Golf?

    That's the game.


  • #6105
    New Home
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Not Yo-yo. Are there even world rankings for yo-yo?

    If you think I'm going to start explaining the difference between billiards and pool, which will lead to the difference between billiards and snooker and the differentiation between the five types of pool, you have another thing coming. :)

    Weeeeeeell, it was worth a shot! :D Wikipedia it is, so. :p

    There are indeed yo-yo world rankings, and I'm pretty sure it's considered a sport.

    (Could you at least explain to me the off-side rule, please? :pac:)


  • #6106
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I don't there is an off-side in yo-yo. Could you be confusing it with the "off-string" routine?


  • #6107
    New Home
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    :D


  • #6108
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    :D

    I am MIA at the moment and possibly for a day or two.

    NewHome, would you set a question for me? Much appreciated.


  • #6109
    New Home
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    What was the original Latin meaning of 'Qui(d) pro quo', which, unlike in English, is still used in some languages?


  • #6110
    New Home
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    (BTW, I looked it up - table tennis and ping pong are the same thing. The International Table Tennis Federation is even considering a name change to The International Ping Pong Federation. https://www.ittf.com/2017/03/17/pingpong-linguistic-battles/)


  • #6111
    New Home
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    Bonus question - it's not my turn, I know, but I saw this and I thought it'd be funny.

    Which US president said "I left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency - even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."?


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  • #6112
    Rubecula
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    try this link New Home sorry it is a bit long winded but the shorter version will not appear now.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFRgIb8mAQ

    bit meant starts at 3 minutes


  • #6113
    New Home
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    Thanks Rubecula! :D

    *Looks up Whiff Whaff on Wikipedia*


  • #6114
    New Home
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    New Home wrote: »
    What was the original Latin meaning of 'Qui(d) pro quo', which, unlike in English, is still used in some languages?
    New Home wrote: »
    Bonus question - it's not my turn, I know, but I saw this and I thought it'd be funny.

    Which US president said "I left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency - even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."?

    Anyone?? Have I managed to kill the thread again?


  • #6115
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Anyone?? Have I managed to kill the thread again?

    George W. Bush.


  • #6116
    New Home
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    No, sorry. :) I'm pretty sure that sentence wasn't uttered accidentally.


  • #6117
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Anyone?? Have I managed to kill the thread again?

    Sorry, I thought I had replied...

    A remedy or medicine.

    And.


    Ronnie Regan.


  • #6118
    New Home
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sorry, I thought I had replied...

    A remedy or medicine.

    Not quite. It's still used, too.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ronnie Regan.

    Yes indeed, that was him.


  • #6119
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Not quite. It's still used, too.



    Yes indeed, that was him.

    Is it a type of barter then?


  • #6120
    New Home
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    That's the meaning it maintained in English, but it's not the only meaning it had, and not the meaning it still has in other languages.


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  • #6121
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    That's the meaning it maintained in English, but it's not the only meaning it had, and not the meaning it still has in other languages.

    Mrs S has given me an answer, as she's our resident expert on French. I'll not post it as it wasn't my answer.


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