Alliterative Amusements
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Let's play a game in the comments today. Offer a prompt by starting a new comment thread with your chosen word or phrase in the subject line. Answer prompts that inspire you with a single sentence using as much alliteration as possible (sometimes it is impossible to have all the words start with the same sound). There are no limits on how many prompts you can offer or answer, and more than one person is welcome to answer a particular prompt.
Or in more appropriate language,
Let's play a game in the comments today. Offer a prompt by starting a new comment thread with your chosen word or phrase in the subject line. Answer prompts that inspire you with a single sentence using as much alliteration as possible (sometimes it is impossible to have all the words start with the same sound). There are no limits on how many prompts you can offer or answer, and more than one person is welcome to answer a particular prompt.
Or in more appropriate language,
Admins advance an alliterative activity for this association's amusement. Whisper words with which wandering wordsmiths may weave wondrous wordplay. Pick a prompt to play, and structure statements starting with selected suggestions.An excellent example of elegant expression is this video excerpt from V for Vendetta.
Fanfaronade
Date: 2013-07-23 12:53 pm (UTC)(Gleefully borrowed from A-Z of Unusual Words.)
tremulous entrenchment
Date: 2013-07-23 12:57 pm (UTC)Callipygian
Date: 2013-07-23 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-23 01:38 pm (UTC)inscrutable
Date: 2013-07-23 01:39 pm (UTC)Re: Fanfaronade
Date: 2013-07-23 01:55 pm (UTC)Persnickety
Date: 2013-07-23 01:57 pm (UTC)1.
overparticular; fussy.
2.
snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3.
requiring painstaking care.
Re: Fanfaronade/Swaggering
Date: 2013-07-23 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: inscrutable
Date: 2013-07-23 03:38 pm (UTC)(I was just revisiting one of my alliterative efforts yesterday--excellent timing, admins! :D )
Re: Fanfaronade
Date: 2013-07-23 07:23 pm (UTC)Re: Callipygian
Date: 2013-07-23 07:29 pm (UTC)Re: inscrutable
Date: 2013-07-23 07:31 pm (UTC)Re: inscrutable
Date: 2013-07-24 12:59 am (UTC)Re: Persnickety
Date: 2013-07-24 07:23 pm (UTC)Re: inscrutable
Date: 2013-07-24 07:30 pm (UTC)