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[Nuriko]

Re: a swing... and a miss

[Arana]

One other interpretation of "sounds like" I am trying is: somethings that sounds LIKE (that its something that appeals to sounds). Sounds like a radio, sounds like a speaker, sounds like a listener. Not getting anywhere with this really, but the old joke "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" made me think of alternative definitions of "like".

I am grabbing at straws here, but aren't we all?

I haven't even been able to come up with a .wav name from this though.

[ElViento]

Work constraints mean I'm late to these puzzles, but I've read the thread and I'll share the thoughts I've had so far on the prepositions.. needless to say, I haven't hit the mark.

"opposites_attract.wav" no go.. I got to thinking this as early on around page 3 IIRC, someone paired off the prepositions and was left with 'opposite' as the odd one out. I plyed about at pairing prepositions that sounded like each other, and I was left with opposite, as well as 'throughout' ... maybe the 'opposites attract' theme could help.

"yankee_doodle; yankee_doodle_dandy" from the preposition song.. no good.

playing around with 'sounds like' and 'preposition' and 'forty won' .. does anyone know the terminology in the senate when you 'fight' and 'win' a 'proposition', like a bill.. I get the feeling we're all reaching pretty hard now. It's gotta be more simple than that, but I hope my thought processes help some!

[Rendon]

[krystyn]

The Yankee Doodle version I learned went like this:

[Sep7imus]

(I admire the musical attempts being made, but I fear that the answer may be more direct than that. So, by all means continue them, but I'm sticking with the more obvious ones.)

I was trying to thinkof other ways of describing the preposition list, to see if I could think of anything that SOUNDS LIKE thsoe descriptions. here are some thoguhts to try to find homophones for:

prepostions list
list of prepositions
[all the forty-one/prime preopostions suggestions]
locator words
all locators (allocators doesn't work...)
prepositional

I can't believe this one is taking us so long!

[l0rd0fm0rgul]

It seems like we are getting off track. Are we asuming that the "sounds like" means like a song? I hold by the theory that sounds like means literally, the answer sounds like preposition, a certain preposition, a combination of prepositions, etc, or even about the coincidence that they are all locational prepositions. This is (to me) the most important fact about them. And since several of the clips we do know about focus on location (Rani going to Boston, her boyfriend on the orbital platform), I think it will be related to location somehow, and not about music. Go ahead and work on it since it is a possibility, but we can't focus exclusively on music, or first letters, or even my theory about location. We need to look at it from every possible angle.

[l0rd0fm0rgul]

Ok, I've been following this for a while, and have posted a few times, but not until now have I actually looked at where the list of prepositions comes from. According to http://ilb.extrasonic.com/index.php/Audio_Clip_Puzzle_Set_4 and the netninja blog, the list of the prepositions is in langshivel.gif. i found this picture on "the hives" page, but when i save it and open it in notepad, i cant find the list. the only thing that seems out of place is at the bottom where it says:

[bcriswell]

[Daffy889]

[Vilnius]

[a7i20ci7y]

Came up with a list of words with the correct number of syllables that "sound like" preposition using RhymeZone. I'm sorry if someone has already done this, I don't have time to read 30 some pages of posts. Might want to try some of these, and don't forget plural forms of the words.

abolition, acquisition, admonition, ammunition, apparition, bad condition, coalition, combat mission, competition, composition, daffynition, decommission, definition, demolition, deposition, dietitian, disposition, electrician, erudition, exhibition, expedition, exposition, extradition, eye condition, field emission, fondkommission, foreign mission, good condition, heart condition, house physician, imposition, inhibition, inquisition, intermission, intuition, in addition, in commission, in condition, in remission, jazz musician, malnutrition, new edition, obstetrician, opposition, phase transition, politician, precondition, preignition, premonition, prohibition, proposition, recognition, recondition, repetition, reposition, requisition, retransmission, rhetorician, skin condition, stage technician, statistician, superstition, supposition, text edition, trade edition, with ambition

[proxenus]

Please excuse my ignorance, I've been unsuccessfully trying to follow this ARG, but I don't have the free time.

I did a search, and nobody has mentioned this page yet:
http://www.ilovebees.com/preposition.html

[flamesuit on]

edit: doh! nevermind.

[keeks]

[KwayZeeyT]

Tried something a little different (I think).

Maybe SOUNDS LIKE isn't literal. It could represent a word, like similar.

I broke it down as:
sounds like = similar/same
pre - before
posistion

SO I tried:
same_position_before
similar_position_before

Neither worked, but maybe it will spark an idea for someone else.