People have been playing with words and meaning for almost as long as there have been languages.
In any language you look at, you can find examples of wordplay taking place in various different ways.
At http://www.fun-with-words.com/index.html all sorts of different kinds of wordplay have been collected together and explained, with examples.
For this blog post, look down the left side of the page and pick two kinds of wordplay you have never heard of, read about them, and write your own explanation of how each one works. Then write two examples for each (write your own, don't just steal an example from the site).
1. Mnemonics are basically just patterns in sentences that assist you in remembering the sentence itself. There is always something about the sentence that you can remember. For example, you can rhyme a sentence so you can remember it better. "It takes a *genius* to come up with solutions about *Venus.*" Another example would be to make a word out of the first letters of the words of your sentence. "Darnell Elects Mean Evan As National Secretary. (DEMEANS)"
ReplyDelete2. Oxymorons are basically putting two words that do not suit; they contradict each other. For example, you can say burning ice. Ice would normally be cold, but if it burns, than it is hot. In logical terms, that would mean the ice is so cold it burns. Another example would be destructive peacekeepers. Peacekeepers normally maintain a truce between each other, however they can be destructive at times by going to war, etc. In logical terms, if peacekeepers break their truce, then something destructive will happen.
Tanya Girouard
ReplyDelete1) Tongue Twister Fun: It is attempting to recite a tricky rhyme or phrase as fast as possible without tripping over the verbal challenges.
2)Spoonerisms : Is words or phrases which letters or syllables get swapped.
josh: boggle is a game were you find the words in a square of letters and need as many as possible. then if the other player has the same word you must cross out the word until nethier of you have the same words. then each letter counts as 1, ex: boggle is 6 or fire is 4 then add the total of the letters in the words up and thats your total. the player with the most points wins.
ReplyDeleteThe first activity I did was: http://www.fun-with-words.com/index.html, being the second option on the blog. Basically what happens on this web link is to show words that can be formed with only the first row of your keyboard, same for the second row and so on. My favorite word was: tetterwort.
ReplyDeleteMatthew Morin
ReplyDelete1) tongue twister fun: it is a silly poem with the same words that have two different meanings and people trying to say them as fast as they can makes it easy to mess them up.
2) Pangrams: it is again silly little sentences that don't make sense but the objective is to have every letter of the alphabet in the sentence.
SARA LONG SAID ;well there is anagrams that mean a total other thing when we mix the letters up and it's all kinds of games with words kind of like that there, personally i wouldn't play that game on my free time but it's not useless because it does make sense, it's smart!
ReplyDeleteNet Lingua
ReplyDeleteIt's basically just internet language. It consists of words, phrases and emoticons that you wouldn't usually say in person or write on paper.
ex.: :), lol
Spoonerisms
When you mix up letters in a sentence. It's usually between two words and the first couple letters are switched around.
ex.: "Can I borrow your BookMac?", "Pass me my botter wattle, please?"
1.Angry Hungry and Gry : It first appeared
ReplyDeletein 1975. There is only 3 word ending with Gry.Angry and Hungry what is the thired one? We are using words ending with gry when we are speaking but in the writing world there is only 2 words ending in Gry. Angry Hungry and gry is a puzzle that has to do with finding other words in the English language. It is a dificulte game since there aren’t plenty of words ending with Gry, so the puzzle is hard.
Tamie
Alissa: The first activity i did was the fun with words exercise. I looked at spoonerism first and i found out that they are words or phrases where letters or syllables get mixed up. EXAMPLE: Hey pass me the bater wattle.
ReplyDeleteThe second exercise i did was pangrams, which i later found out are actually sentences that use every letter of the alphabet in them.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/it-strategy/2006/06/06/10-flagrant-grammar-mistakes-that-make-you-look-stupid-39273376/
ReplyDeleteChristopher: i went to this site i thought that it is very good in showing norms of erreurs that a few people would do, and others that would show the most common on most of people. It permits us to know how stupid spelling mistakes can be for some people.
WILLIAM BAILEY
Delete-I chose the game boggle, it is very intersting and it helps us to form words like polo, pool, mool
i did lots of mistakes that are stupid because i didnt think before spelling a word porperly