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Eris-Dysnomia pastel battle moot! I too melt tablet sap! Aim on Syd, sire!

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6 hours ago, TheVat said:

Siren ode: Was Plato Alps-awed on Eris?

I just saw the error here. Correction:

Siren ode: was Plato sot Alps-awed on Eris?

4 hours ago, sethoflagos said:

Eris-Dysnomia pastel battle moot! I too melt tablet sap! Aim on Syd, sire!

Did this one get away from you a bit? I strive to connect multiple sentences with an unbroken thread of meaning. (I know, I'm the guy who just tried to situate the Alps out in the Kuiper Belt)

I hope some of this wordplay will somehow help me understand the Standard Model of particle physics. 😁

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

Did this one get away from you a bit? I strive to connect multiple sentences with an unbroken thread of meaning.

Well you gave me the Eris-Dysnomia system, leading inexorably to Roy Batty's

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark, near the Tannhauser gate
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Which became a 'pastel battle moot' (OE: meeting), with C-beams aimed at Syd. Naturally, my own personal involvement would limited to melting the tablet sap necessary to fuel the attack ships.

Makes (satisfyingly surreal if not absurd) sense to me. Don't see what else I could do with it really given your subject matter and your constraints 🥺

2 hours ago, TheVat said:

I hope some of this wordplay will somehow help me understand the Standard Model of particle physics.

Adhering to the mandatory rules of grammar, punctuation, and form clearly parallel the time reversible Dirac formalism. The rest is absurd. Just run with it.

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Punctuation (bad quantum)

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I was unaware of the Eris Dysnomia character, apparently from some sort of digital gaming. (I only knew dysnomia as the neurological condition, so had been a bit confused) I was thinking of the dwarf planet out in the Kuiper belt, also home to Sedna (clearly a missed opportunity there, given my reference to mountain ranges) and Pluto.

2 hours ago, sethoflagos said:

Adhering to the mandatory rules of grammar, punctuation, and form clearly parallel the time reversible Dirac formalism. The rest is absurd. Just run with it.

I'm at parallel, Ella - rapt am I.

4 hours ago, TheVat said:

I was thinking of the dwarf planet out in the Kuiper belt

So was I: the dwarf planet, Eris, and its moon, Dysnomia.

And then there is the subtext of their roles in Greek Mythology: Eris (strife) and Dysnomia (lawlessness, bad government).

Too esoteric?

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TIL dwarf planets have moons large enough to name. Cool. How had I missed this? Dwarf planets...I listen...Alp frawd?

To pet animal as I see, bro, fava for bees is a laminate pot.

(actually wanted to use 'Falala' - being born into abundance - rather than 'fava', but I guess you have a rule against using Twi 🙀)

Could I slip it in as a misspelling of Valhalla? That would work (frawd!!!).

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2 hours ago, sethoflagos said:

Could I slip it in as a misspelling of Valhalla? That would work (frawd!!!).

Hehheh.

2 hours ago, sethoflagos said:

you have a rule against using Twi 🙀

What is this twi you speak of and what rule would I have against it?

Whilst I'm here, here is one that presented itself to me to Emily as she was reviewing with her physician her bone density scans and side effects of a new pain treatment...

Dope rised sex at no osteopenia pain - e-poet soon taxes desire pod.

(You will note liberties taken with rised v raised)

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

What is this twi you speak of and what rule would I have against it?

Twi is an indigenous lingua franca used across much of Ghana. 'Falala' as both concept and given name has been widely exported, even unto Yorubaland.

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

(You will note liberties taken with rised v raised)

...and osteopaenia 😉. Palindromicity, is enough of a constraint, I think.

However, too much linguistic diversity may leave Emily confused as to just how many amphibian poachers were detained in the swamps of East Netherlands region:

Twente nein Eft Act arrests - err at Cat Fen i.e. net newt.

ChatGPT almost gets this except it has to be told that dialect variant 'eft' is the OE root of 'newt' (via 'an eft'/'a neft')

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