md65536 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) I correspond with danger, but I won't any longer if you remove a stem I will become stronger What am I? Edited August 20, 2011 by md65536 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 A nuclear fission reactor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md65536 Posted September 28, 2011 Author Share Posted September 28, 2011 A nuclear fission reactor. Naw. Maybe time for a clue: The meaning of the words danger and stronger, as well as the answer, don't matter. The specific meaning of the words 'stem' and 'correspond' are important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I was thinking along the line of hazard (corresponds with danger) becoming hard (ie stronger) with the removal of a 'z' - but will have to restart after your clue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Dude, this was started in August--when was the answer on the horizon? ~suspense is meant for the short term, what'r you doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md65536 Posted October 18, 2011 Author Share Posted October 18, 2011 (edited) Dude, this was started in August--when was the answer on the horizon? ~suspense is meant for the short term, what'r you doing? Blurgh, sorry, thought everyone's forgotten the thread. It seems that at least it had slipped from my head. Who am I then? Certainly you don't know me. Find out and what I mean I'll no longer be. I am a word, and I have more than one stem, It takes some license to remove one of them, but if I've become stronger (look at me, see that I am) put back the stem and I'm where I began. In what sense correspondence? Its mention was terse. It's of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. As riddles go, this one's about fun as cancer You might roll your eyes when you find out the answer. Edited October 18, 2011 by md65536 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Heh, k, I give up.--What are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md65536 Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 Heh, k, I give up.--What are you? Go on, take a guess! What's there to lose? I've already given out so many clues: Meanings of words. Stems, and danger The riddle is strange, the answer yet stranger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lab_supplies Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Grenade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md65536 Posted October 24, 2011 Author Share Posted October 24, 2011 Grenade? Does a grenade correspond with danger, not in meaning but in terminal sound of the two words? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta1212 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 The riddle is strange, the answer yet stranger This made me laugh. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Got the answer from reading just the OP (well, and the nuclear fission reactor answer ). I missed this when it was posted in August. Stranger. Stranger danger, they tell the kids. Remove the stem from the "a" to make an "o" for stronger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md65536 Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) Got the answer Correct. It struck me how different the two words sound, yet visually differ by only a little mark (depending on font I guess), so I made a riddle out of it. I looked up the word "rhyme" to make a clue, and it led to "correspond". To get back to rhyme may require a huge leap in lateral thinking, and might not be that good a clue. Edited February 28, 2012 by md65536 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Correct. It struck me how different the two words sound, yet visually differ by only a little mark (depending on font I guess), so I made a riddle out of it. I looked up the word "rhyme" to make a clue, and it led to "correspond". To get back to rhyme may require a huge leap in lateral thinking, and might not be that good a clue. You made that up yourself? Excellent job. I've done a lot of writing in my life but I don't think I've ever made up a riddle. If I did I guess it wasn't worth remembering. Kudos to you, md65536. A little tip, though. It demeans your creative efforts to give out too many hints. If someone gives up, it's not necessarily because your riddle is too hard. And feel free to bump a thread if you think people have forgotten it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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