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Song Uno: From here to Eternity

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L Anthony said:
Nyet! A bit too much of a stretch there, comrade!

Going from Love Me Tender...

Tender Love - Force MDs
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Can you explain how that is a stretch? The accepted practice of parsing words is permitted as long as the resultant word is a complete, contiguous word. Ten is a complete, contiguous word, as are tend and end. Ender would be a proper noun derived from tender in fact there is even a song by Finch titled Ender.

Going from: Used To Bad News

Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King
 
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I've been sitting here with my popcorn watching this unfold. I tend to agree with mongo on this. We've all pulled a word or two out of a title and posted it, as it is a song title, or part of one.
On the other hand, pulling Ten out of Tender may be stretching the envelope, but not breaking it. If mongo had posted "Return to Sender", that would break the envelope.
I'm going to hold off posting until this is resolved, one way or the other. We need clear consensus on this matter.
 
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Ayce said:
I've been sitting here with my popcorn watching this unfold. I tend to agree with mongo on this. We've all pulled a word or two out of a title and posted it, as it is a song title, or part of one.
On the other hand, pulling Ten out of Tender may be stretching the envelope, but not breaking it. If mongo had posted "Return to Sender", that would break the envelope.
I'm going to hold off posting until this is resolved, one way or the other. We need clear consensus on this matter.
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Past practice seems to indicate that the use of matching syllables that are not part of the same word root is not permitted, but tolerated when we're stuck.
Disclosure: I'm a relative newcomer to Song Uno.
 
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mongo2 said:
Can you explain how that is a stretch? The accepted practice of parsing words is permitted as long as the resultant word is a complete, contiguous word. Ten is a complete, contiguous word, as are tend and end. Ender would be a proper noun derived from tender in fact there is even a song by Finch titled Ender.

Going from: Used To Bad News

Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King
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My understanding was that yes, you can parse from a word, but the remainder left over needs to still be a recognizable word or a part left over from the form/tense if the word (i.e., taking park from parking). To me, taking ten from tender left der. However, upon further reflection, someone could have used der and played "Der Kommisar" or something similar (my fault for not recognizing der as a word, despite my taking German many years ago), leaving ten as the remainder. Therefore, I concede Mongo's point and play. Carry on.
 
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Ayce said:
I've been sitting here with my popcorn watching this unfold. I tend to agree with mongo on this. We've all pulled a word or two out of a title and posted it, as it is a song title, or part of one.

On the other hand, pulling Ten out of Tender may be stretching the envelope, but not breaking it. If mongo had posted "Return to Sender", that would break the envelope.
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That has been true in the past.

L Anthony said:
N.Y.
My understanding was that yes, you can parse from a word, but the remainder left over needs to still be a recognizable word or a part left over from the form/tense if the word (i.e., taking park from parking). To me, taking ten from tender left der. However, upon further reflection, someone could have used der and played "Der Kommisar" or something similar (my fault for not recognizing der as a word, despite my taking German many years ago), leaving ten as the remainder. Therefore, I concede Mongo's point and play. Carry on.
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Thank you. To be honest I hadn't noticed the "Der" possibility...there goes 3 years of high school German down the drain.

Just to clarify since this came up a few times recently.

That only happens with compound words and is just a coincidence and by-product of the fact that it is a compound word.

Tradition here is that parsing any word is permissible and has been done in the past as long as the parsed portion is a complete word based on the "using a word from the previous title" rule, and not just a partial word which is then completed in the next play or as someone once tried, using non-contiguous letters to spell out a word.

In the few times we have been stuck and not even parsing worked that I saw, IIRC, the solution was to advance from the previous title played.

So I guess the last legit play was Born In The U.S.A.

Going from: Born In The U.S.A.

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
 
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