SC - Crossover from Meridien Tavernyard (humor) OT (sorta)
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at efn.org
Wed Dec 1 18:15:06 PST 1999
I'm on dinner break...
Huette von Ahrens wrote:
>
> --- "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org> wrote:
>
> > Queen Carmen's Consort, while not tame by any means,
> > is domesticated.
> > Not a game animal at all.
>
> Hey, just the other day, you said he played Parcheesi
> with your kids. That would make him a game animal, in
> my humble opinion! :-)
>
> Huette
Not quite. The word is the same- but there is more than one definition.
It is the province of punsters and wordplay, but playing a game does not
necessarily make you game, except if your name is Sir Gawain. (I did a
graduate conference paper last year on the multi-valent use of the word
'game' in SGGK- an on-going project- and the subject still makes me
twitch...)
'Lainie
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