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| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4543 Registered: 8-2001 |
I used to think the name of a certain place was paradoxical, but that was because I had a scrund about how that place got its name. I have since met a few other people who had this scrund. What is it?? | ||
| Logician (Logician)
New member Username: Logician Post Number: 537 Registered: 6-2003 |
Paradoxical because it (appears to) describe the place as polar opposite to what it actually is? Is the word 'New' in the name? 'Old'? Is the place a building? Street? Town/city? Country? Subordinate nation state (e.g. Wales, Taiwan etc.)? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4545 Registered: 8-2001 |
Logician (Logician) New member Username: Logician Post Number: 537 Registered: 6-2003 Posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 - 8:55 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Paradoxical because it (appears to) describe the place as polar opposite to what it actually is? yesish Is the word 'New' in the name? no 'Old'? no Is the place a building? noStreet? noTown/city? noCountry? no Subordinate nation state (e.g. Wales, Taiwan etc.)? no | ||
| Buzzard (Buzzard)
New member Username: Buzzard Post Number: 1112 Registered: 6-2003 |
Paradoxical in that the name actually contradicts itself in some way (e.g. "Hill Valley")? Or that it contradicts some property of the place (e.g. "Greenland")? If you had known nothing at all about the place itself, only the name, would you still have thought the name was paradoxical? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4546 Registered: 8-2001 |
Buzzard (Buzzard) New member Username: Buzzard Post Number: 1112 Registered: 6-2003 Posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 - 9:02 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Paradoxical in that the name actually contradicts itself in some way (e.g. "Hill Valley")? no Or that it contradicts some property of the place (e.g. "Greenland")? yes If you had known nothing at all about the place itself, only the name, would you still have thought the name was paradoxical? no | ||
| Buzzard (Buzzard)
New member Username: Buzzard Post Number: 1113 Registered: 6-2003 |
Is the place man-made? or natural? Is it a body of water? island? group of islands? mountain? mountain range? other physical feature? Is the place in the northern hemisphere? southern? eastern? western? Does the name (or some part of it) sound like an English word, but it was really derived from a word in another language with a completely different meaning to the English word? Like the Canary Islands? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4547 Registered: 8-2001 |
Buzzard (Buzzard) New member Username: Buzzard Post Number: 1113 Registered: 6-2003 Posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 - 9:32 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the place man-made? I don't think so or natural? I think so Is it a body of water? yesisland? no group of islands? no mountain? no mountain range? no other physical feature? no Is the place in the northern hemisphere?yes southern? noeastern? yes western? no Does the name (or some part of it) sound like an English word, but it was really derived from a word in another language with a completely different meaning to the English word? no Like the Canary Islands? interesting. I apparently had a scrund about this, too, since I took it for granted thatthe islands were named for canaries. | ||
| Buzzard (Buzzard)
New member Username: Buzzard Post Number: 1114 Registered: 6-2003 |
Is it fresh water? salt water? moving water? still water? Is it in Europe? Asia? Africa? Other? Does the name make it sound like it's something other than a body of water? that it's a different type of body of water than it actually is? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4548 Registered: 8-2001 |
Buzzard (Buzzard) New member Username: Buzzard Post Number: 1114 Registered: 6-2003 Posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 - 10:24 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is it fresh water? no salt water? yes moving water? I think not still water? I think so Is it in Europe? noAsia? yesish Africa? no Other? noish Does the name make it sound like it's something other than a body of water? nothat it's a different type of body of water than it actually is? yope | ||
| Kdoc (Kdoc)
New member Username: Kdoc Post Number: 908 Registered: 7-2001 |
the dead sea? is the scrund that it is actually a lake not a sea? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4551 Registered: 8-2001 |
Kdoc (Kdoc) New member Username: Kdoc Post Number: 908 Registered: 7-2001 Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 12:51 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) the dead sea? yesis the scrund that it is actually a lake not a sea? no--it's much odder (pardoxical, as the puzzle statement says) | ||
| Yabblesmacker (Yabblesmacker)
New member Username: Yabblesmacker Post Number: 275 Registered: 4-2009 |
Is the dead sea the one that has extra buoyancy, which means you can almost 'sit' in it? Meaning you are less likely to drown? And you thought it was named the dead sea because lots of people drown in it? Anything like this? | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4556 Registered: 8-2001 |
Yabblesmacker (Yabblesmacker) New member Username: Yabblesmacker Post Number: 275 Registered: 4-2009 Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 11:25 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the dead sea the one that has extra buoyancy, which means you can almost 'sit' in it? yesMeaning you are less likely to drown? yesAnd you thought it was named the dead sea because lots of people drown in it?yes Anything like this? yes *********** SPOILER ******************* I used to think that the name of the dead sea was paradoxical, because why would they call it a dead sea if you couldn't drown in it? The answer is that plants & animals can't live in it. Sorry it was so easy, but brand-new replacement puzzle won't be. . .I hope | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4557 Registered: 8-2001 |
Yabblesmacker (Yabblesmacker) New member Username: Yabblesmacker Post Number: 275 Registered: 4-2009 Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 11:25 pm: Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only) Is the dead sea the one that has extra buoyancy, which means you can almost 'sit' in it? yesMeaning you are less likely to drown? yesAnd you thought it was named the dead sea because lots of people drown in it?yes Anything like this? yes *********** SPOILER ******************* I used to think that the name of the dead sea was paradoxical, because why would they call it a dead sea if you couldn't drown in it? The answer is that plants & animals can't live in it. Sorry it was so easy, but brand-new replacement puzzle won't be. . .I hope | ||
| Yabblesmacker (Yabblesmacker)
New member Username: Yabblesmacker Post Number: 276 Registered: 4-2009 |
Good puzzle, I didn't know why it was called the dead sea either! | ||
| Nimue (Nimue)
New member Username: Nimue Post Number: 4559 Registered: 8-2001 |
Thanks--please check out my new one! (I've always thought of a good puzzle as taking a long time to solve, but I've noticed that many forum members disagree with me about this.) |
