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Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:48 am
by Ouagadougou
frog > slimy, unpleasant person > con artist > creepy person > bogeyman > imaginary > ridiculous > superstition > witch > toad > frog

Next word: complex (as a noun or adjective)

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:01 am
by Gojera
complex (adj). > decorative pattern > interlaced pattern > woven pattern > weave > insert > have sex > procreate > be pregnant > bear (a child) > bear (a load) > carry

Next word: to carry.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:26 pm
by Bob Johnson
balance > carry on the head > to carry > be exhausted by > fall asleep > be horizontal > be long

Next: pebble

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:42 am
by Gojera
pebble > counting token > counter > scribe or accountant > long-faced > something long > be long > be long and thin > something long, thin, and straight > stick, staff, or rod > club > mace

Next word: mace.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:52 am
by Alces
round + head > mace > "one who wields a mace" > warrior > man

Next word: taste

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:23 pm
by Bob Johnson
nutritious > delicious > taste (sense) > tongue > (the speaker's) language > familiar language > insult

Next: ripple (n.)

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:15 pm
by Gojera
ripple > undulate > dance sensuously > prostitute > unmarried woman > bride > wife

Next word: wife.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:15 pm
by Rodlox
Gojera wrote:ripple > undulate > dance sensuously > prostitute > unmarried woman > bride > wife

Next word: wife.
wife > female cohabitant (usually in relationship with) > female cohabitant (not in relationship with) > (female) colleague > academic > (the field of) academia

wife > female cohabitant (usually in relationship with) > female cohabitant (not in relationship with) > womens' barrack's inhabitants > womens' barrack


next word: barrage

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:34 pm
by Gojera
barrage > barraged > besiged > pinned down > immobilized > paralyzed > comatose > sleep paralysis > night-mare or hag (supernatural creature) > succubus > fashionable young woman > fashionable clothing > feathers > feather

Next word: feather.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:40 pm
by Rodlox
Gojera wrote:barrage > barraged > besiged > pinned down > immobilized > paralyzed > comatose > sleep paralysis > night-mare or hag (supernatural creature) > succubus > fashionable young woman > fashionable clothing > feathers > feather

Next word: feather.
feather (plumage) > feather (religious emblem) > (stands for) truth, civilization, culture > a cultured person > an educated person > a complete education > a place providing a complete education


next word: wharf

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:53 pm
by Gojera
wharf > harbor > port > port town > commercially important town > fortified market town > fortified winter military settlement > fortified frontier settlement > fortified settlement > bastle > farmhouse > barn

Next word: barn.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:43 pm
by Ċeaddawīc
barn > place in which animals reside > place in which mammalian quadrupeds reside > place in which cows reside > place characterized by many cows or cow-like qualities > (two separate words or senses of the same word) place with lots of cows (> [cow] pasture) / speckled, dotted, splotchy (> separate, broken up, disambiguated, clarified)

NEXT WORD: clarify

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:37 pm
by Torco
clarify-find out-research-adquire a greater understanding of [at this point there's this huge religious renaissance, and society gets really de-secularized]worship/pray.

next: worship/pray

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:21 pm
by Gojera
to honor > to worship > to idolize > idol > a dummy > a fake > a swindler > a swindle > a hoax > a chimera > an illusion > a shape in the clouds > cloud

Next word: cloud.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:23 am
by Pogostick Man
campsite > fire pit > cinders, ashes > smoke > cloud > cotton ball > cotton > textiles > shirt

Next word: bureaucracy

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:58 am
by Rodlox
Rorschach wrote:campsite > fire pit > cinders, ashes > smoke > cloud > cotton ball > cotton > textiles > shirt

Next word: bureaucracy
the workings of those under an Emperor > bureaucracy > many people at work in concert > a great deal of formal work > lots of detail work > cause(s) of eyestrain > ink blindness, working til you're blind > blindness more common in the upper classes > blindness striking the educated > blindness.

next word: work.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:58 pm
by Bob Johnson
enemy > conquered people > slave > work > draft horse > horse > companion animal > friend

Next: stormcloud

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:19 pm
by míkl
Bob Johnson wrote:enemy > conquered people > slave > work > draft horse > horse > companion animal > friend

Next: stormcloud
rain > stormcloud > lightning > electric current > wire

Next: star

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:04 am
by bulbaquil
míkl wrote:Next: star
star > night sky > night > work at night (via verbing) > prostitute

Next: pollute

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:53 am
by Pogostick Man
bulbaquil wrote:star > night sky > night > work at night (via verbing) > prostitute

Next: pollute
pollute > make an area unpleasant > annoy someone through talking or otherwise being loud > inform a crowd of news, as would a town crier > recite > memorize > think of, bring to mind > think up > have an idea

Next. have an idea

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:38 am
by Gojera
have an idea > eureka moment > epiphany > religious or ideological conversion > become a heretic > become a witch > witchcraft > sorcery

Next word: sorcery.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:16 pm
by Bob Johnson
not + know > mystery > unexplained bad happening > sorcery > forbidden knowledge > secret knowledge > technique passed down within a family/etc > trade secret

Next: sleep

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:51 pm
by Gojera
sleep > sleepy > tired > hard-working > diligent > rigorous > strict > cruel > heavy

Next word: heavy.

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:38 am
by Imralu
rock > weight/ballast > heavy > overweight > rounded > blunt > dim-witted > ignorant > naïve > innocent > virgin

Next word: virgin

Re: The Semantic Drift Thread

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:45 pm
by RTLPM
virgin > unspoiled > blank > white > snow > ice > cold > temperature > weather > forecast > foresee > future

Next word: future

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