Re: CHAT: Postpositions

--- Aidan Grey <grey@...> wrote:
> At 11:36 PM 4/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Matthew Kehrt scripsit:
> >
> > > Anyone ever hear of the preposition game?  It's
> played by people taking
> > > turns listing English prepositions.  The game
> ends when no one can think
> > > of a new preposition, or when someone says
> 'athwart,' unless anyone
> > > present actually knows what 'athwart' means.
> >
> >Sounds a lot like "Finchley Central".  Two players
> alternate naming
> >stations on the London Underground.  The first to
> name Finchley
> >Central wins.  This game can also be played as
> "Nuclear War".
>
> But couldn't you just say "athwart" (though I know
> what that means, having
> been in the Navy - same with "abaft") or "Finchley
> Central" and win right off?
>
>    Aidan
I think the point is to be played between people who
don't know what the secret word is, with a "moderator"
who does and says when the word has been found.

Maybe I'm wrong, though.


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