Talk:Merit's Encoded Message

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  1. Part of speech
  2. More grammatical details
  3. Etymology
  4. Number of letters
  5. Number of syllables
  6. First letter

Crazy attempt to record wrong guesses per word


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"And in the last days of the great Lo Tan, did he give his blessing and protection to the brotherhood of Keepers. And as the Cycle itself turns, with each Great Spirit rising to ascendency and then falling once more only to rise again, so did the PLURAL-MILDLY-OBSCURE-ABSTRACT-NOUN predict that the Dragon Emperors would return. And so as the line of Emperors slept, the Keepers would protect Their legacy from those who would ACTIVE-PHYSICAL-VERB-FROM-GERMAN-AND-IT-REALLY-SOUNDS-LIKE-IT it and cause the downfall of the Dragon's BIG-CONCRETE-NOUN. And thus did the thirteen Keepers receive their charge, and ACTIVE-PRESENT-TENSE-VERB-OOH-FROM-OLD-NORSE-THAT'S-DIFFERENT the three Keys to the Vault and hide them PREPOSITION the three Flames of the Dragon. And the Flame of the Yin was in the body of the land, and it was deep beneath the earth, where it would not be found. And the Flame of the Chi was in the heart of the land, and it was deep within the tree, where it would not be found. And the Flame of the Yang was in the spirit of the land, and it was deep within the waters, where it would not"

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"The Great Keeper is not able to stop us. The first four are dead, though they did manage to SEVEN-LETTER-TWO-SYLLABLE-SIMPLE-ACTIVE-VERB-FROM-MIDDLE-ENGLISH-OLD-FRENCH the FOUR-LETTER-THING-AND-PLACE-WITH-A-VERB-OF-RELATED-MEANING-AND-PRONOUN-OR-ADJECTIVE-WITH-DIFFERENT-MEANING-FROM-MIDDLE-FRENCH and bury their Key beneath Heaven, never to be recovered. The second four have made a SLIGHTLY-UNGRAMMATICAL-PRETENTIOUS-SOUNDING-GERUND with demons and PAST-TENSE-IRREGULAR-ACTIVE-VERB a piece of the BIG-CONCRETE-PLACE away from the Forest, where it can not be reached. But the third four were PAST-PARTICIPLE-ADJECTIVE and have EIGHT-LETTER-PAST-TENSE-REGULAR-MOSTLY-ACTIVE-VERB-ANGLO-NORMAN-MIDDLE-FRENCH their charge. We shall dive into the CONCRETE-BUT-NOT-SOLID-NOUN-FROM-MIDDLE-DUTCH-OR-LOW-GERMAN-OR-OLD-SWEDISH of the Emperors and TWO-SYLLABLE-SIX-LETTER-ACTIVE-VERB-THAT-THE-OED-THINKS-SHOULD-HAVE-A-HYPHEN the Flame this very day, and the Dragon's Hoard will be ours."

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These are the words I have read, and I believe they are true. Thus, I am the last Great Keeper. The rest of the thirteen are dead, or lost, or worse, and so it is only I who remain to fulfill our SIMPLE-ABSTRACT-NOUN. Though I do not have the Keys, I do have the blessing of Dragon. I shall ACTIVE-PHYSICAL-OR-MAGICAL-VERB his Command FIVE-LETTER-DIRECTIONAL-ADVERB-FROM-OLD-SAXON-MIDDLE-HIGH-GERMAN to those who would defy his will, and they shall be bound to His ABSTRACT-NOUN-FROM-ANGLO-NORMAN-OLD-FRENCH, as if they were Keepers themselves. Until freed by touch of the Dragon, they shall serve, FOUR-LETTER-ADVERB-WHICH-IS-ALSO-AN-ADJECTIVE-OR-VERB-OR-EVEN-NOUN-SO-IT-PROBABLY-DOESN'T-END-WITH-LY-FROM-OLD-HIGH-GERMAN PREPOSITION their PLURAL-ABSTRACT-COMMON-GERMANIC-NOUN, as shall any who join with them. The Dragon's will shall prevail until He returns.







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Suffixes not from French

-ship -ness -hood -ric -ly -ing -oid -oholic -orama

Suffixes with arguably Frenchy etymologies

-ery -er -ity -ous -age -itude -ure -tion (also -sion, occasionally -ion) -ance (-ence, -ancy, -ency)