| Author | Message | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4447 Registered: 9-2009 |
I sometimes falattah. Maybe some of you do too. What is it? | ||
| Fionakelleghan (Fionakelleghan)
New member Username: Fionakelleghan Post Number: 404 Registered: 7-2011 |
I assume it's a verb. Is it a word in a language that is not English? Yiddish? Should I suggest other language-based possibilities? (It is a word you made up? Or NOT?) Is it a word made up of parts, such as, um, get-together? Does it mean something peaceful, resting? Or something involving other people? Eating? Talking? Observing? Fun; I love word puzzles! | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4451 Registered: 9-2009 |
I assume it's a verb. Correct. Is it a word in a language that is not English? Not intentionally. Yiddish? Should I suggest other language-based possibilities? No to all. (It is a word you made up? Or NOT?) I made it up. Is it a word made up of parts, such as, um, get-together? Irr. Does it mean something peaceful, resting? No. Or something involving other people? No. Eating? Talking? No to both. Observing? Observing is involved. Fun; I love word puzzles! : ) | ||
| Rbruma (Rbruma)
New member Username: Rbruma Post Number: 1734 Registered: 9-2009 |
Do you do it on purpose? Can everyone falattah? (With the usual distinctions: can a man? a woman? a child? a toddler? a very old person?) Do you need someone else to falattah? Can you do it in the dark? Can you do it inside? Outside? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4454 Registered: 9-2009 |
Do you do it on purpose? No. Can everyone falattah? (With the usual distinctions: can a man? a woman? a child? a toddler? a very old person?) A toddler can't, everyone else listed can. Do you need someone else to falattah? No. Can you do it in the dark? Yope. Can you do it inside? Outside? Yes to both. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 15163 Registered: 4-2010 |
Does falattahing involve speaking? Something else vocally? Do you move while falattahing? Falattah while moving? Does falattahing involve the use of the hands? Feet? Arms? Legs? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4458 Registered: 9-2009 |
Does falattahing involve speaking? Something else vocally? No to both. Do you move while falattahing? I move my body, yes. Falattah while moving? Yes. Does falattahing involve the use of the hands? Yes. Feet? No. Arms? Yes. Legs? No. | ||
| Solitiare (Solitiare)
New member Username: Solitiare Post Number: 334 Registered: 7-2011 |
A toddler can't do it - does it involve a certain amount of education, even if minimal? Reading? doing something (other than intended) on the computer? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4463 Registered: 9-2009 |
A toddler can't do it - does it involve a certain amount of education, even if minimal? Yes. Reading? Yope. doing something (other than intended) on the computer? No. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 15170 Registered: 4-2010 |
Does falattahing involve some kind of gesture? Of exercise? Is another person involved in this? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4466 Registered: 9-2009 |
Does falattahing involve some kind of gesture? No. Of exercise? No. Is another person involved in this? No. | ||
| Fionakelleghan (Fionakelleghan)
New member Username: Fionakelleghan Post Number: 410 Registered: 7-2011 |
Do you do it on purpose? Do you find yourself doing it unconsciously? Is it fidgeting? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4469 Registered: 9-2009 |
Do you do it on purpose? No. Do you find yourself doing it unconsciously? No. Is it fidgeting? No. | ||
| Solitiare (Solitiare)
New member Username: Solitiare Post Number: 337 Registered: 7-2011 |
Are you in a vehicle when you do this? In your own home, or somebody else's? a place of business? your own, or somebody else's? outdoors? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4476 Registered: 9-2009 |
Are you in a vehicle when you do this? In your own home, or somebody else's? a place of business? your own, or somebody else's? outdoors? All of the above. | ||
| Solitiare (Solitiare)
New member Username: Solitiare Post Number: 340 Registered: 7-2011 |
Does this have anything to do with time - the passage of, or the noting of the passage of time? In other words, consulting your watch/clock, without being aware that you are doing so? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4478 Registered: 9-2009 |
Does this have anything to do with time - the passage of, or the noting of the passage of time? Indeed. In other words, consulting your watch/clock, without being aware that you are doing so? Very close! | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 15187 Registered: 4-2010 |
Automatically looking at your wrist whenever someone asks you the time, even if you're not wearing a watch? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 15188 Registered: 4-2010 |
Or maybe looking at your "blank" wrist during a long-winded conversation and saying "Oh, look at the time, I've got to go"? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4488 Registered: 9-2009 |
Automatically looking at your wrist whenever someone asks you the time, even if you're not wearing a watch? Or maybe looking at your "blank" wrist during a long-winded conversation and saying "Oh, look at the time, I've got to go"? No to both. | ||
| Solitiare (Solitiare)
New member Username: Solitiare Post Number: 343 Registered: 7-2011 |
Constantly looking at your watch, and then not being able to give the time an instant later, when somebody asks you? I never do this, because I don't wear a watch, but my husband does it _all the time_. Of course, it annoys him that I ask him the time _all the time_. | ||
| Ciaobella (Ciaobella)
New member Username: Ciaobella Post Number: 247 Registered: 8-2011 |
If Solitaire is right, is falattah... Forgetting about looking at the time....something with an "a" and "h"? Any ideas fellow puzzlers? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 4490 Registered: 9-2009 |
SPOILER Falattah is a word inspired by the acronym 'lattaf' - looking at the time and forgetting'. I don't wear a wristwatch, but use my phone. Too often I find that after taking it out of my pocket to se what time it is, I need to take it out again because I forgot to consciously register what I saw. Thanks for playing! | ||
| Ciaobella (Ciaobella)
New member Username: Ciaobella Post Number: 286 Registered: 8-2011 |
I falattah quite a bit myself. Nice word! I like it. |
