Wiktionary:Winter/Summer Competition 2023
Intro
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This is to announce the start of the 2023 Winter Competition (or Summer, if you live in the Southern Hemisphere.)
In this competition, your goal is to define as many term as you can in alphabetical order (from "a" to "zzzs") in the format of a play. The person with the most terms defined will win ... something. I don't know what yet.
Rules
[edit]1. Each person can use three sentences for their definition, two for the use and definition of a term and one for some optional stage directions. Dialogue is mandatory, although stage directions are not (and should not be used unless there is a good reason to use them). You do not need to use two sentences to use and define a term, although it is encouraged. Sign your entries like this: ([Wiktionarian]) after what you wrote.
2. Each line of dialogue must be formatted like a play script would be. This is the speaker's name, in bold and all-caps, followed by a colon and them some dialogue. In addition, the term that is being defined must be in bold. Here is an example:
RANDOM CITIZEN #1: I have trumspringa. I have the desire to give up my job for farming. (RandomCitizen1)
Stage directions should be italicized, as so:
RANDOM CITIZEN #1 tosses his briefcase to the left-hand side of the stage.
3. The next term you define should come fairly close after the previous term defined (something like 600 lemmas after the term that's defined). Here is an example of something that would be valid:
RANDOM CITIZEN #1: I have trumspringa. I have the desire to give up my job for farming. (RandomCitizen1) Being the ts is a hard job. Being the person who something something is a hard job. (RandomCiti2)
And here is something that would not:
RANDOM CITIZEN #2: I have trumspringa. I have the desire to give up my job for farming. (RandomCitizen1) This is because you can't zyxt. This is because you can't see. (MidEngFan)
This is because "trumspringa" and "ts" are less than 600 entries away from each other (if they existed with the defined meaning on Wikt), and "zyxt" is more than that (if it was an English lemma).
4. Players can not define two terms one after the other. They must wait for someone else to define a term before they can define another one.
5. I'm allowed to make up new rules when I feel that they are needed.
6. Have fun!
Play
[edit]Act 1
[edit]Scene 1
[edit]- ALICE: Bob, do you have a book? Do you have one book? (CitationsFreak)
- BOB: I'm not sure — can you help me count on my abacus? Can you help me count on my bead frame used for performing arithmetical calculations? (Andrew Sheedy)
- ALICE: Go buy yourself a guide with this Abe Lincoln. Buy yourself a guide with this five-dollar bill.
- ALICE hands BOB a five-dollar bill. (CitationsFreak)
- BOB: How I abhor being given money that I can't guarantee to pay back (I really do hate it)! (Wonderfool)
- ALICE: You are beginning to abrade me. You're starting to get on my nerves.
- CHARLIE enters the room. (Andrew Sheedy)
- CHARLIE: Hey guys! Are you ready for our trip abroad? Off to another country! Woohoo! (Wonderfool)
- ALICE: Absolutely! Certainly! (CitationsFreak)
- BOB: Yep, well, except for the guide book on Mongolia. Following in the footsteps of Gengis Khan should be pretty absorbing, huh, Charlie? It should sustain your interest. (Wonderfool)
- CHARLIE: There is an abundant amount of interest in me. There is a lot of interest that I have for Genghis Khan. (CitationsFreak)
- BOB: Alice, which clothes did you pack in the end? Not the abysmally decorated Hawaiian shirt? Not that horribly garish thing! (Wonderfool)
Result
[edit]Nobody wins.