{"id":102,"date":"2007-06-08T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2007-06-08T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T19:07:23","slug":"the-globe-and-mail-getting-together-to-make-up-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The Globe and Mail: Getting together to make up words"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a review on collective writing projects published today in Globe and Mail<\/a>, Verbotomy is described as “the most entertaining” and as “a word-invention game of the sort you’ll find in quality publications”.<\/p>\n

The review which appears in an article titled “Wikibook = Wikibomb” was written by Tivor Tossell, a columnist who writes for “Seven” the weekly entertainment review published by the Globe and Mail, Canada’s National Newspaper.<\/p>\n

Tossell does an analysis of several online collective projects including A Million Penguins<\/a> by Penguin Books, Portrayl.com,<\/a> Glypho.com<\/a>, Ficlets.com<\/a>, and Verbotomy<\/a>. The print article features a screen shot of the Verbotomy website with the caption: “Verbotomy.com succeeds because it only ask writers to invent a single word.” After reviewing the each of the other collective writing projects, Tossell concludes with his take on Verbotomy:<\/p>\n

Which knocks us down to the lowest rung on the ladder, which, as it happens, is the most entertaining: getting together to make up words. At Verbotomy.com, users play a word-invention game of the sort you’ll find in quality publications. Every weekday, artist and programmer James Gang posts an illustrated definition; players compete to invent a word to describe it. Most of the results are puns and most of the puns are terrible, which, being puns, only makes them better.<\/p>\n

To wit: A third wheel, invited to stay by a couple despite manifest awkwardness, is a “matecrasher.” Emotional frustration at e-mail being returned to sender is “emailaise.” Feeling disappointment at a stupid mistake is to be “blunderstruck.” Think you can do worse? Step right up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the full story: Wikibook = Wikibomb<\/a><\/p>\n

Special congratulations to Steveson0 (matecrasher<\/a>), Clayton (emailise<\/a>) and Rikboyee (blunderstruck<\/a>) for getting their words quoted in the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a review on collective writing projects published today in Globe and Mail, Verbotomy is described as “the most entertaining” and as “a word-invention game of the sort you’ll find in quality publications”. The review which appears in an article titled “Wikibook = Wikibomb” was written by Tivor Tossell, a columnist who writes for “Seven” … Continue reading The Globe and Mail: Getting together to make up words<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,3,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}