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This round was the etymology round! A subject that I have a lot of appreciation for. And it was a fun round to do! Quite the battle too! A lot of different interesting entries for sure! I learned a few new things, it was enlightening. :) Anyways.. On to the results!
VOTE ROUND 24
apolymask - Voted for amariespeaks
charisma777 - Voted for amariespeaks
addempsea - Voted for amariespeaks
xomegax - Voted for amariespeaks
leonis - Voted for simplymike
Congrats @amariespeaks ! :) You're now in 5th place and only the third person so far to have achieved more than one win.
Reasons the judges voted the way they did.
My reason.
All of the entries in this round were great and well worthy of consideration, but I felt like you put the most time and gave the most comprehensive in depth explanation. I vote for this one for the etymology round.
addempsea
You seamlessly weaving words and uprooting their meanings to the very core fascinated me into voting for you for this round.
xomegax
You did so much in this post almost all the details are present you have my vote
Ohh.. And.. One other thing I forgot to mention in the last update, @bashadow got an additional 3XP for the bonus on the music round, he was the only one who did a "jingle".
Wins-XP-Level
kryptocek 6-49-1
har5h 1-48-1
jan23com 0-40-1
bashadow 4-34-0
amariespeaks 2-17-0
sandrina.life 1-14-0
plushzilla 1-11-0
auminda 1-09-0
swolesome 1-09-0
bengy 1-09-0
xomegax 1-08-0 now a judge
grizzman 0-08-0
wholeself-in 1-08-0
mr-bike 1-06-0
kenneth1 1-07-0
bitpizza 1-07-0
iexplore 1-07-0
simplymike 1-07-0
noisyboy 1-05-0
deliberator 0-04-0
artgirl 0-03-0
sophiabydesign 0-02-0
warpedpoetic 0-02-0
lynncoyle1 0-01-0
nxtblg 0-01-0
yura81 0-01-0
mnallica 0-01-0
lahvista 0-01-0
chrisroberts 0-01-0
laurawhite 0-01-0
beeyou 0-01-0
Definitely still anybody's game! Especially since we're doing a sweet 16 style challenge.
That means the top 16 people will still have a chance at the grand prize of 158 steem. :)
And.. Your stats will carry over to next season as well, so now is a good a time as any to get started if you wanna play!
If you do want to play, please feel free to ask any questions, or join our discord and have a look around.
PS.. We could use another full time judge as well, or guest judges. We can always use more judges to help vote on the submissions! Lemme know if you might be interested.
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Original by @yeszuzia and modified by @charisma777
Congratulations @amariespeaks, and everyone who played, that was one very interesting round to say the least. We use words everyday, but when we look at the meanings and original uses are we using them the way our ancestors meant for them to be used? I think language is like everything else in the universe, always in flux, always changing, just so we can all stay on our toes.
Well said bashadow. While I think it's good to try to know about the origins or history of language, we can only know so much! And most of what people get by on a regular day involve slang and a constantly evolving dialect. Both worlds are important though I think!
They have to be, we can not use todays meanings for yesterday's writings, the words evolve, the meanings evolve, and I am not talking just over a long time, short time changes as well. 1920 -Gay was totally different word. Original War of the Worlds Masterbate was completely different meaning. Lots of words change generally for the worst, same as with symbols, they get co-opted by a group, then they give it their meaning. Originally an ancient cosmic or religious symbol thought to bring good luck. Most people know what it is, they know the name of it, how many know the history of it. One day it will return to what it was. One day gay will mean a happy go lucky person again, and one day masturbation may return to it's old usage of mumbling words to god. Things change, grow and evolve, nothing stands still, not even time. (I heard that somewhere, it didn't make sense then it still does not make sense-"nothing stands still, not even time"-that part).
I tend to agree! But.. masturbation means mumbling words to god? I couldn't find that on the site I use.. Do you have a link I could read about that? Sounds interesting.
In regards to nothing standing still, I dunno if that's true or not. It seems like we're in a dual reality sometimes so that if there is movement there should also be stillness as well. But.. Who knows the ultimate truth in regards to a lot of these things! They are very difficult if not impossible to prove in some cases i think..
I just checked, did a quick skim through War of the Worlds, and I could not find it again, so my mind could be playing tricks, but I was sure that was the story I saw it in, and when I clicked to define it's usage it came up with mumblings to god, but, I am unable to locate it again, so it is not a reproducible result, so mind issues with myself I guess. Or Kindle messing with me. I should have saved it when i saw it. So sorry, no link, I have tried to find it though.
Ah. Okey doke. Thanks for the clarification and trying to find it! Perhaps I should do a google search and see if it comes up with anything..
thank you @bashadow :) and you're very right everything is in constantly motion, the best we can do is ride the wave.
thank you so much to @IFC and all the judges! I can't believe I've climbed up the ladder like this! I was super surprised this morning to see this!!
This round was so much fun and I'm honored to be chosen as the winner!
You're doing great! And you'd probably have another win if we could have accepted your short story which was really amazing. I hope to save that to show people in the future. It's one of the cool things the community has created about itself. bashadow made a great song you made a great story, there's been a few other cool things like that, but I definitely treasure those a lil extra! :D Nice work in the contest! :)
Well done @amariespeaks!! Watch out @kryptocek, she is coming up fast! What a great round with some awesome entries, but I think the judges got this one right! I need to step up my game, which I think I've been saying to myself for quite some time now! We have such talented contestants! I'm amazed every round with the content that is created! Keep up the good work everyone!! :)
Congratulations @amariespeaks you are getting up there on the board!!! Great job to all of you, these rounds are getting harder to judge. Much love!!!
Oh wow! The beauty of it is that @amariespeaks hasn't even been in since the beginning of the contest either and now she's knocking on the door!
All here entries have been really good so far and the leaderboard is showing it! Congrats :)
that would be a great contest...
Wow great creativity, I like it
Thanks for sharing
nice work you have done @apolymask
nice work!!!!!!