Author Topic: Difficult Pyramid categories? (Read 15010 times)

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #30 on:** November 10, 2005, 04:13:28 AM »

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Nov 9 2005, 10:46 PM\'](How's about THINGS THAT ARE DEMONSTRATED?)
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Infomercial ovens. Pizza samples.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #31 on:** November 10, 2005, 05:08:10 AM »

Protest rallies.

HYHYBT · « **Reply #32 on:** November 10, 2005, 09:24:20 AM »

I think the Great Lake/ Superior problem would be that 'great' and 'superior' are synonyms, or at least as close to being as some others they've buzzed.

CarbonCpy · « **Reply #33 on:** November 10, 2005, 11:52:20 AM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Nov 10 2005, 05:08 AM\']Protest rallies.

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I may be speaking ex-rectum here, but if a judge was feeling particularly snarky, couldn't he rule that 'protest' was synonymous with 'demonstrate?'

Neumms · « **Reply #34 on:** November 10, 2005, 12:05:16 PM »

[quote name=\'CarbonCpy\' date=\'Nov 10 2005, 11:52 AM\']I may be speaking ex-rectum here, but if a judge was feeling particularly snarky, couldn't he rule that 'protest' was synonymous with 'demonstrate?'

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One doesn't demonstrate a protest rally--a protest rally IS a demonstration. Could they buzz it because it doesn't fit the subject?

clemon79 · « **Reply #35 on:** November 10, 2005, 12:44:43 PM »

[quote name=\'CarbonCpy\' date=\'Nov 10 2005, 08:52 AM\']I may be speaking ex-rectum here, but if a judge was feeling particularly snarky, couldn't he rule that 'protest' was synonymous with 'demonstrate?'

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[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Nov 10 2005, 09:05 AM\']One doesn't demonstrate a protest rally--a protest rally IS a demonstration. Could they buzz it because it doesn't fit the subject?

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I think either of these reasons are fine ones for sounding the buzzer.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #36 on:** November 10, 2005, 07:28:36 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Nov 10 2005, 02:13 AM\'][quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Nov 9 2005, 10:46 PM\'](How's about THINGS THAT ARE DEMONSTRATED?)
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Infomercial ovens.

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Is this legal? "Infomercial oven" sounds like a coined phrase. Maybe "an infomercial's oven"?

Or heck. Just say "Ron Popeil's appliances" and be done with it. ;-)

clemon79 · « **Reply #37 on:** November 10, 2005, 07:55:20 PM »

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Nov 10 2005, 04:28 PM\']Is this legal? "Infomercial oven" sounds like a coined phrase. Maybe "an infomercial's oven"?
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It would float, I think. One is more grammatically correct than the other, but they both basically convey the same idea: the type of oven you would see on an infomercial, as opposed to the one you go down to an appliance store to buy.

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #38 on:** November 11, 2005, 08:38:02 AM »

I don't think "great" and "superior" are close enough to be synonymous. The latter is a comparison to something else, the former, a general description of magnitude.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #39 on:** November 11, 2005, 01:18:25 PM »

Also, superior means best. Great is not necessarily best, especially not in this usage.

It'd be like if I said "A growing jackpot" for "Things that are progressive."