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Malrog

OK, I like the analyst theory, this is my take on it though:

We need something that sounds like preposition list. Thus, we can have: <word>_analyst where word sounds like "prepo" (since analyst sounds like "sition list") Anyone find a list of words that sounds like prepo?

- Malrog

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:58 am

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Lurking_Kouzou · Veteran Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 124 Location: Earth

Here is another way to look at it, if it helps:

I broke down the words we were given by number of letters in each.

In the preposition list there are:

5 two letter words
1 three letter words
8 four letter words
9 five letter words
9 six letter words
6 seven letter words
1 eight letter word
0 nine letter words
2 ten letter words

and the dotted lines (------) are each 10 characters long

it may be useful, it may not, run with it as you will

EDIT: Wording changed for clarity
EDIT: Factual informaton corrected (you'd think I could count above 10)

Roland · Boot Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 15

Actually the blanks are 10 characters long... 2 10 character blanks... 2 10 character words, underneath and throughout

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:09 am

Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

Here's another crazy theory (that I didn't check because it's probably wrong):

Tthe prepositions all refer to numbers on a phone keypad (over=2, etc). When pressed in order, it sounds like a well-known song (yankee doodle or something).

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:09 am

Roland · Boot Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 15

tried over_and_out and down_and_out on a whim... no go

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:16 am

peeveen1 · Boot Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 51

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:31 am

Garnet

Maybe we should think more along the lines of this one console in Marathon:

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:31 am

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Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

Tried super_grover.wav (as in "Near, far.") No luck.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:35 am

RandMod6

that's a lot of touch tones..

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:41 am

jegger

Tried fortean_proposition, but no dice. Thought it was a pretty good match, too.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:08 am

Darketnal · Boot Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 26

concerning
respecting
throughout
underneath

Are the 4 english 10 letter prepositions.

Concerning sounds like underneath?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:44 pm

pheoni · Boot Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 12

Read between the lines

Xombies · Greenhorn Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 8

Have we tried just plugging in the propositions after sounds_like? So sounds_like_outside.wav and so on and so forth?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:34 pm

GloryFish · Boot Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 44

Re: Read between the lines

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:09 pm

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klobbermeister

Just fishing, like everyone else right now...

Is there any significance to the types of prepositions in the list? I am not an English major, so never cared to know, but there *are* differences in prepositions, no?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:32 pm