Fourth Podium Poll for 9/16/2020
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I end up with $5600, because I screwed up the Hemingway saying A Farewell to Arms, even though The Sun Also Rises is the only Hemingway novel I've actually read. I've done this before, blanked on that particular title. But since I know I've read it, I can't bear to stay clam, since I should know it, I think it will come to me before time runs out - but instead another title obstructs my way to it. I wouldn't go with Death in the Afternoon, since it's not a novel.
But I got the FJ (knew Crockett died later) and the litmus DD (should have known the Byron, found the Navajo confusing) so I guess I win anyway...
But I got the FJ (knew Crockett died later) and the litmus DD (should have known the Byron, found the Navajo confusing) so I guess I win anyway...
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Never knew "myriad" referred to a specific number.
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$8000 plus DD 1 & 3.
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Nice pulls! That gets you $6000, enough to win if you got FJ. But not enough to win with a savvy wager from second if you missed it. My $6400 put me in the same boat, the highest ordinary (divisible by $200) value to be there. We'll go out for drinks later and talk about the various "one thing"s that could've been different to put us in the champ's spot.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:58 pm I got The Sun Also Rises, Thomas Rhett, Old Dominion, Kelsea Ballerini, and litmus.
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I actually knew the root before I knew that particular word. My dad had a book (it's still around here somewhere) called The Insomniac's Dictionary that I got into as a kid that had a bunch of stuff about words. One section had a bunch of -ocracy and -archy words that referred to who ruled, and the author had listed a bunch of words that referred to rule by a specific number. The last one, with the highest number, was "myriarchy," defined as rule by 10,000. So when I encountered "myriad" at some later point, I was likely able to glean from context that it referred to a large, uncountable number, but I knew from my prior reading that it probably literally referred to ten thousand.
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Well, dang. I'm gonna track down that book and give up the Melatonin.seaborgium wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:07 pmI actually knew the root before I knew that particular word. My dad had a book (it's still around here somewhere) called The Insomniac's Dictionary that I got into as a kid that had a bunch of stuff about words.
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$8400 plus DDs 2 and 3, and I got FJ.
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Curse you again -- another mouthful of coffee to clean off the monitor.
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Only Red River of the North, myriad = 10,000, and The Sun Also Rises. Gives me $3,600, not within striking distance.
Did get Final and all three DDs.
Did get Final and all three DDs.
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I just found the book. It's got (going from high to low) myriarchy, chiliarchy (a thousand), hecatonarchy (a hundred), dodecarchy, decarchy, octarchy, heptarchy, pentarchy, tetrarchy, triarchy, biarchy, and monarchy (with a few alternatives given for several of the lower numbers, and "hecatontarchy"). The author, Paul Hellweg, explained that "hexarchy" already refers to a group of six states rather than to rule by six leaders; he also observed that there didn't seem to have ever been a word for rule by nine. He said he suggested "nonarchy" in a magazine article once, and a reader wrote in saying that that mixed Greek and Latin, and "ennearchy" would be consistently Greek (and that's also where I first learned the Greek "nine" prefix).seaborgium wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:07 pmI actually knew the root before I knew that particular word. My dad had a book (it's still around here somewhere) called The Insomniac's Dictionary that I got into as a kid that had a bunch of stuff about words. One section had a bunch of -ocracy and -archy words that referred to who ruled, and the author had listed a bunch of words that referred to rule by a specific number. The last one, with the highest number, was "myriarchy," defined as rule by 10,000. So when I encountered "myriad" at some later point, I was likely able to glean from context that it referred to a large, uncountable number, but I knew from my prior reading that it probably literally referred to ten thousand.
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You're not supposed to mix Greek and Latin roots in a single word. I learned that on television.seaborgium wrote: ↑Sun Nov 01, 2020 7:38 amHe said he suggested "nonarchy" in a magazine article once, and a reader wrote in saying that that mixed Greek and Latin, and "ennearchy" would be consistently Greek (and that's also where I first learned the Greek "nine" prefix).