You've never seen "The Bold and the Beautiful", I suppose? Some of the wives there work their way through marriages with all the males in a family...

Please see the link I posted above. A half-brother is not, never will be, a step-brother to the same person. He's one or the other, but not both.

Here's the relevant paragraph from that link:



My bolding.

It's not fair when spanishliz and shuehorn take the same side of an issue. One can't just look at the avatar and know who's saying what. Are you folk step-avatars or half-avatars? Who's the third puppy in that family portrait? A true sibling or just a litter-mate? Or should that be a question for Who Am I?

Oh, mehaul, thank you so much for the wonderful laugh I just had! But don't you think we're a cute litter of pups, really?

Adorable.

Chawbacon
Your answer: an awkward stupid person

an awkward stupid person is the definition for "lummox"

The correct answer was not very intelligent or interested in culture

Basically the same. Maybe they shouldn't be in the same set.

They aren't really that close, aside from both being derogatory. Chawbacon refers to mental attributes, while lummox is primarily physical. I wouldn't necessarily have even included the 'stupid' bit in its definition.

dictionary.com - lummox - a clumsy, stupid person - (therefore, not just physical attributes)
chawbacon - not very intelligent or interested in culture

They do seem close to me.

Now it's my turn to laugh! Yes, spanishliz and I may well be step-relatives of some sort. I think we both speak Spanish, and we both love beagles and have had special pooches pass away. It's an honor to be confused with her!

Not meaning to confuse you, though, mehaul!

Sue

I don't know if it happens to you, but sometimes I'll be reading a post with "my" avatar and I'll say, "I don't remember posting that." Turns out it isn't my post but yours.

I came across this one again. It was actually first mentioned back on page one, in Feb 2010. and then 4 more times since then. It just won't go away.

13. Subject to a palyful hoax or joke
Your answer: play a joke on

typo - playful

Yes, I have done that more than one time

Ahhhh..... Suddenly, things which previously confused me are making sense....

I'm pretty sure this byte is spelled with an I!

12. A line enclosing a plane areas
Your answer: perimeter

Should be singular - area

If you look at it another way, areas could really refer to multiple areas which all could be enclosed, so I think you are missing the nuance of areas which really makes the statement valid and the game much better. I have my degree in areas, so you really are missing a lot. But, the Yankees won, so it is all moot, or mute as some say. Ha.

With the 'a' it should be singular, shouldn't it? 'A line enclosing a plane area'

In your case, you probably want 'A line enclosing plane areas'
Very punny, I'm missing a 'lot'.

I got the answer correct. I just thought it was grammatically incorrect.

LOL! You are so right on. I am just messing with you after the last few wannabe corrections!!

In Differential Calculus it is all the smaller and smaller areas that make up the whole Area (Note cap A vs low case a) enclosed by a line. The real question is "Does the thickness of the line add to the Area or is the Area only that which lies within?" The meditation on this point is why so many math teachers appear to be asleep in class.
---On the other hand---
A line enclosing 'a'(singular) plane area's' (lower case a, plural) is the stripe painted around the sides of aircraft that makes it go faster, which the ssabreman should know! (edit: This would be an even better answer if the typo of the 's' was not an additional letter but a misplaced one, ie, '"a plane's area")

hahaha - Mine or yours?

"We mock what we are to become"

Why in heaven's name do you aspire to be me? One of me is enough.

typo: Should be usually

2. Captain
Your answer: the pilot ins charge of an airship

typo - 'ins'; should be 'in'

Since airships are often in the air for more than eight hours, could the 's' just be misplaced, as in "The pilots in charge of an airship"? Airplanes, one pilot; Airships, a contingent of pilots sharing the title Captain, holding it while on duty.

If that was the case, mehaul, I'd say the entry should be "captains" in the plural. I think it should all be kept singular.

No, in the context, the position is singular. There may be several who work as Captain but there is only one at a time acting in the capacity.

This way (example):
I am an airship pilot. My cousin is also an airship pilot and, coincidently, we both Captain the WAS Blimp. He does the day work and I do the difficult night celestial navigating duty. The WAS Blimp only has one Captain but two pilots. We exchange command of the bridge, and Captaincy, on a routine schedule. Since we are not in the military we hold no 'rank' as captain. The job we perform is one of being Captain. We both need raises by the way. My cousin and I are much like Station from the 'Bill and Ted' movies, two individuals acting in concert.

O.k., I get that, but the entry doesn't state it is all the pilots who captain in one journey - if the entry said "sergeant" you wouldn't feel the need to include everyone who holds the position, surely?

Also, only one person is acting as Captain at any one point in time, so I am inclined to agree with reeshy that the singular is more normal grammatically, logically and factually, even though we can think of a set of circumstances that might allow the plural.

Why are we being so convoluted about what is clearly a typo in the database?

Amen. I think that about at least 50 percent of the responses here.

Isn't this where obscure definitions have to be accepted? If one of the definitions of Captain describes the role played by multiple personages, then it should be accepted here as a possible response even though its not the most well known.
My initial post on this was only to show that the ins typo may not be the only way an error occurred in this instance (An extra letter s versus a misplaced s). Why do we bother at all to post errors here? Nothing can be done to change anything since the content is not FT's to control. I understood these posings are from an outside source. There is no database that we can correct the content of. Unless Terry has editing power in his agreement to use the dictionaries that are the source. Why do the same errors keep coming up? Our input here doesn't fix them. That means this thread is just to discuss the errors encountered in the game. Discussing an error is all I did.