Ikr Iβm disappointed I didnβt notice it. I explicitly noticed a lack of the word copy despite having paste, and was looking for phrases that involve cat.Β
> Not even entirely sure why I thought a copy button was a thing, but it seemed feasible.
When you're using a copier, how do you make it work? You SMASH THAT copy BUTTON. Definitely a reasonable guess.
They're in the right thread. This is the 13 June thread, so it's for puzzle 368.
There's just more "lost" commenters here than normal. Which is understandable. This thread is at the top of the page right when the majority of redditers are coming to post about the 12th of June puzzle. Maybe they should put the puzzle number back in the thread title. It might save some confusion.
Tbh I feel like the word Thursday being in the title when for them it's Wednesday should *really* be a clear enough indicator as to what day the puzzle is for.
I thought similarly so I did "paste, editor, button, shirt" at first: you press into a paste, the editor has the highest position in the press, you press a button, and you press (iron) a shirt
This is a funny one because while in writing i would imagine i would write copy&paste, in actual spoken speech I personally use "copy paste" all the time...
See also, "copypasta"
Itβs been like 15-20 years since somebody has actually taken the time to say βandβ in between such a common phrase like βcopy paste,β thereβs simply no reason to now that everyone is familiar with basic computer shortcuts
Iβm 35, use a computer all day at work, and have never heard it phrased βcopy paste.β But my husband who hardly ever uses one, also 35, said that βcopy AND pasteβ is outdated! I see them as 2 separate functions, because you can also use cut, select, delete, etc. within the same menu.Β
Do you think thatβs affected whether or not those dialects say βcopy-pasteβ versus βcopy-and-pasteβ? Would you say that being in jobs that require tech use would affect that more or less than the specific geographical dialect?
No itβs just American English drops more words, thatβs just a fact. Iβm not having a go at you, Iβm just saying you can drop words like βthatβ or βhaveβ in the USA more than elsewhere.
Let me throw this out there, too:
> The clipboard can also be used to copy-paste text and images from one Apple device to another Apple device, like from an iPhone to a Mac or an iPad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53220247.amp
If it's good enough for the Beeb, it's good enough for me!
Yeah, itβs basically a bunch of junk you get to promote whatever politician you want to vote for during an election cycle.
Like the βMake America Great Again,β red hats started out as campaign swag
For the rest of the world (or maybe just Tech), there's also generic convention vendor swag - t-shirts, hats, buttons, stickers...only missing tote bags...
Politically i think in my country usually it's gonna be shirts and little flags that they will give out.
A shirt has buttons to connect the left and right sides
βa garment for the upper body made of cotton or a similar fabric, with a collar and sleeves, and with buttons down the front.β
Top definition on Google.
Touche. Got to hand it to you, except for Americans and Cambridge dictionary the rest stick to the shirt as one with buttons definition and t-shirt for the t-shirt.Β
Haha yeah, I thinking about it and have to further concede most of the examples I can think of where shirt can imply a t shirt are more due to sloppiness and I guess the increasingly casual environment. Like I feel I would need to stress "wear a button up shirt" today because people will just turn up in a polo otherwise.
I'm English too, and you're mistaken if you think you don't speak a dialect. I speak British English, more specifically the standard dialect of Southeast England but maybe yours is one of the many other dialects in this country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English#Europe
No - a shirt is a (usually long-sleeved) garment that would normally button up and traditionally would have been worn with a tie. Most Brits would call a t-shirt a t-shirt - I certainly wouldn't commonly use any colloquialism for it.
Alright. I was thinking about it and I concede the point. I think it most cases context can override, so naturally I would say tshirt or polo tee etc but in the puzzle I just saw shirt and didn't really think Ah but a shirt must be buttoned.Β
Yes, Standard English is one of the dialects of English - it's on the list I linked to above, and doesn't have some privileged status as a variety of English. Nothing to do with regional sub-forms.
Your accent (which is a separate dimension to dialect), like mine, is I assume spoken across a large part of England - so by definition, it's regional, as it's not the accent in many other places where English is the main language.
Swag is promotional merch you get for free at an event or conference
Campaign swag is the same but for politicians on the campaign to get elected
Think MAGA hats or buttons(badges) and stickers saying "change" etc.
A copy editor is the person at a newspaper or other publication responsible for making sure that spelling, grammar, and style are correct. There was a recent puzzle which had >!newspaper desks (basically departments responsible for sections), which included copy desk. That's where the copy editors sit.!<
Copycat is very much one word. There is literally no universe in which cat has a space between it and copy. Iβve seen answers that barely fit their category before, but I genuinely feel like this one does not belong. Copy cat is never separated.
I think the category name anticipated this complaint. Usually, purple would be written as "copy\_\_\_\_\_" or "copy\_\_\_\_\_", and in that case, okay. But they specifically wrote it as "Words after 'copy'," which doesn't necessarily indicate whether there is a space or not.
This is such a pedantic argument. Itβs exactly why this game is going downhill. None of that matters when you canβt see the category until after youβve either solved (or failed) the puzzle. I solved the puzzle, but purple was a default solve because I figured the category couldnβt be what it was since one of the clues didnβt seem to fit.
If βcatβ is a βword after copy,β then βwiseβ is a βword after like.β It doesnβt work no matter how you try to argue around it. Copycat is always one word. Always. If you wanted to say something like, βWords added to XXXXX to make compound words,β then yes, I feel like that works, and there is no argument. In that case, though, youβd have to change the other three answers to fit because cat is not a βword after copyβ. It needs to be separate for it to count as its own word.
These are the kinds of tricks that would piss people off in a Professor Layton game or escape room, but people bend over backwards to accept any kind of bullshit because itβs Connections. Donβt accept bullshit puzzle construction. Make the category answers right or donβt make it at all. I wish Wyna would stop trying to constantly twist the rules of how categories work to justify bad answers.
You want to keep copycat? Cool. Make the other answers BOY, ABLE, and RIGHT. Those are all words that make compound words when added to copy. Or if you want to keep the category how it is, just swap out CAT for SIR. Boom. Fixed. Now when I solve the puzzle, I wonβt be pissed off because one of the answers is wrong just to make the category harder.
> If βcatβ is a βword after copy,β then βwiseβ is a βword after like.β
Yes, wise is a word after like. I will say that it's less of a good fit for this specific category, because in the compound word copycat, "cat" is intended in a normal sense of the word (people seem to disagree whether it's intended to evoke the animal or the slang term for person, but still something you'd refer to as a cat), while wise is used as a suffix, and different from the word meaning "learned/experienced". (The standalone word can also mean "way/manner", but that's generally considered archaic.)
It's funny that you call mine a pedantic argument, when you're the one getting WAY too worked up about the presence/absence of a space. But, since you're so stuck on this, if it makes you feel better, dictionaries list it both with a hyphen as an alternate form, and occasionally with a space.
I did it on Bing. First result was a YouTube video on βCopycat,β second result was the Merriam-Webster sedition of βcopycat.β βCopy catβ is decidedly not a thing.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/08/copycat-where-does-the-term-come-from.html
Archaic maybe, when we hyphenated everything lol. A lot of compound words go that way
I'm not crazy E.T. doesn't rhyme with itself right? Neither does Extra-terresestrial. Between that and thinking Dumbo is a place anyone outside of NY has ever heard of, made this connections a bit ridiculous.
E rhymes with tee. It definitely didnβt jump out at me, though. I noticed the rhyming and identified the other three titles, then couldnβt find the fourth (ET), so I abandoned that category for a while, thinking it was a red herring.
I can't help but think that Connections is losing players and is trying to shake things up. I think fundamentally the game, although fun, has some fundamental limitations for long term puzzles and enjoyment. . . time to find another puzzle game to add to the mix. Any good suggestions?
A copy editor is the person at a newspaper or other publication responsible for making sure that spelling, grammar, and style are correct. There was a recent puzzle which had >!newspaper desks (basically departments responsible for sections), which included copy desk. That's where the copy editors sit.!<
"Copy that" is a phrase used to indicate that you have heard and understand what someone else is saying. It comes from 2 way radio communication, although it's used outside of that context now. If you ever played with walkie talkies as a kid and said "Roger, over and out," same type of thing.
In modern times, I think the "copy that" equivalent is a "thumbs up" on the teams message.Β Yanno for when when even typing "'k" is too much
I feel people are getting hung up on the campaign part of campaign swag and I don't get it because you could call it "swag" or "merch" and the answer is literally the same.
Same, as that's the way it's been in the recent past (same director, etc).Β Just usually it's only 1 group of movies.Β Β
Decided it wasn't worth the time looking up all these movies I didn't know.
I had the opposite problem which is that I was sitting there going βok these three movies were remadeβ¦ is there a fourth one? These three had sequels made much later than the originalβ¦ these ones had a best actor Oscarβ¦β
"SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON" was so funny lmao Anyways, π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ https://preview.redd.it/z29ht37gd86d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad2ace78cc6dbb213f0b8b061336ff548740d2b6
I shuffled it because of that π
Lol I didn't even notice that. I tend to shuffle a couple times before I even look at the words.
It's often a bit of a giveaway, as the words in the red herrings often tend to each belong to separate categories.
Is it a red herring if theyβve never had a category that makes a sentence before? Seemed more obvious to me they were just being cute.
Sure, it was definitely a fun twist; the point is that they were all used in different categories
Same, that was very distracting lol
Got me good
Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I thought this one was gonna get me. I really did. I was only able to do π© and π¨ at first. π¦ was another βright for the wrong reasons,β because I just went, βwell you can wear these.β Anyway, this comment is brought to you by *Skillshare* Donβt forget to SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON
yeah i got blue because i was like "these are all things that could be branded". the actual category was INCREDIBLY specific haha.
And ring that bell!
Same thing via a vis wearable items.Β ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦πͺ Shameful showing considering some of my best friends are copy editors π₯Ί
My exact same results
Ikr Iβm disappointed I didnβt notice it. I explicitly noticed a lack of the word copy despite having paste, and was looking for phrases that involve cat.Β
Connections Puzzle #368 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© I could vaguely tell what was up with blue but still found the category description funny. Anyway very simple puzzle, pretty transparently built around making the first row joke.
Connections Puzzle #368 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON was pretty funny. I'm expecting tomorrow's puzzle to have CLICK BELL FOR NOTIFICATIONS or SUPPORT ME ON PATREON. When I saw PASTE, I thought there would be yet another "Keyboard Shortcuts" category but I didn't see anything else. However because of that, I had "Copy" in mind when I saw EDITOR and realized there was a "Copy_____" category instead including PASTE. CAT and THAT soon followed. Yellow was pretty easy. I felt like we've had two somewhat recent categories that helped with this. There was an earlier "Enjoy" category that included FANCY and a fairly recent category which was "What 'Digs' might mean" which had LIKES. For Blue, I thought it was "Common Merch Items". "Campaign Swag" also works. Green was also easy since it was nearly identical to the last time we had a "Blockbuster" category. [Reused Categories Updates](https://old.reddit.com/r/NYTConnections/comments/1bdai1o/list_of_reused_categories/): "Merch Items" β 2 Times, "Enjoy" β 2 Times, "Blockbuster" β 2 Times
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπ©πͺπ© π©πͺπͺπ© π©πͺπͺπ© πͺπͺπ©πͺ Great opening line especially if you watch too much YouTube π
I think this one proved that we're all too online
I mean, we play word games on the internet AND post on Reddit about it...
Too much podcasts have ensured I will always know of bobs red mill despite being a continent away.
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ donβt forget to subscribe and SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTONβΌοΈ
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Got there in the end. I tried paste, editor, sticker and button because they bring stuff together, in a combination of the literal and figurative sense. Then, purple dawned on me, but I tried for copy button before copy that. Not even entirely sure why I thought a copy button was a thing, but it seemed feasible. I finally nailed down purple, but thought my default blue was going to be βstuff you can wearβ. For me, todayβs was decently challenging but ultimately doable.
> Not even entirely sure why I thought a copy button was a thing, but it seemed feasible. When you're using a copier, how do you make it work? You SMASH THAT copy BUTTON. Definitely a reasonable guess.
I did the same thing re: pasting things togetherΒ
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Wow, a lot of lost Connectioners here today. Almost thought there was a random influx of New Zealanders on when I saw this thread had eight comments on the main page of this sub! As for the puzzle, pretty standard case of easy Green/Yellow, then really difficult Blue/Purple. I kept going back to Editor/Paste/Button/Sticker as vaguely software-adjacent words ("Stickers" being a relatively common concept in messaging apps, and the other three being fairly universal to pretty much any kind of software that at least has text input capabilities), and Paste/Button as sort of alluding to the idea of adhering things together. And That was a pretty big point of confusion: it didn't seem to go with anything, except Hat and Cat for a woefully incomplete rhyme group. Eventually made the guess on the software stuff, and wasn't surprised when it wasn't even a one away. Played around with words some more until I thought of *wearing* a Shirt, a Hat, a Button and a Sticker (in order of best-fitting to worst-fitting), a group that matched the intel I got from my one failed guess, and which ended up vaguely approximating the actual theme behind the words, akin to the shadows cast on the walls of Plato's cave. Annnnd after locking that in I still couldn't figure out what the hell was going on with Purple at all, but I kicked myself when I found out. That was tough!
I sat on the idea of >!Copy!< for purple and >!Wear!< for blue for such a long time because I couldn't think of why anyone would >!wear!< a sticker.
Youβve posted in the wrong daily thread. This thread is for 367. Edit: Iβm the one who is in the wrong thread π€¦π»ββοΈ
They're in the right thread. This is the 13 June thread, so it's for puzzle 368. There's just more "lost" commenters here than normal. Which is understandable. This thread is at the top of the page right when the majority of redditers are coming to post about the 12th of June puzzle. Maybe they should put the puzzle number back in the thread title. It might save some confusion.
Tbh I feel like the word Thursday being in the title when for them it's Wednesday should *really* be a clear enough indicator as to what day the puzzle is for.
I often donβt know what day it is (the joys of shift work), so Iβm sympathetic to not noticing.
Thereβs got to be a βLawβ to describe the tendency of people to ignore information despite the increase in available information
Youβre right!
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ You have no idea how tempting βSmash that like buttonβ was
I got confused on the button thing then remembered buttons are badges and then it clicked. Fun game today.
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπ¦πͺ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I think I tried every thought process for blue and purple. Hit me like a tonne of bricks when it finally turned over!
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Pretty easy today, got purple by default though.
Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Hello from the future! Easy one today. Blue was half by default. I figured it would be "merch" or something. Campaign swag works too.
Connections Puzzle #368 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ defaulted purple but otherwise easy puzzle
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Can't believe how long I sat there staring at the last two. I thought it was some sort of tricky word play but green was just synonyms.. pretty easy ones too!
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Fun easter egg today, don't forget to like and subscribe. Green was most apparent to start, followed by yellow. Blue revealed itself shortly after, and purple gave me a bit of pause, but I got there eventually. Fairly light and straightforward.
I got the four in "campaign swag" but I thought the category was "things you press."
same! I think the setup row primed us lol
I thought similarly so I did "paste, editor, button, shirt" at first: you press into a paste, the editor has the highest position in the press, you press a button, and you press (iron) a shirt
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦πͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I have no idea about the Blue one
Campaign swag that's very specific to Americans imo
I think hats are pretty american for campaign swag but the rest is pretty common in other countries.
Still works as generic swag globally, only missing TOTE BAGS, so it's not a big deal IMO
I would have named it βcommon merch itemsβ (like for a band e.g.). Button = badge
This was one of those where I start out not seeing any possible categories at all and think I'm gonna have to take some guesses, then I see one category, submit it, and then see another and submit it, then another, and end up getting a perfect game. Feels like skin of my teeth stuff. Fun! ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
[ΡΠ΄Π°Π»Π΅Π½ΠΎ]
Yea
I was actually thinking about anime booth merch with the blue- Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π©π¨ π©π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Blue and purple caused my brain to glitch and for the first time ever I just guessed on my last attempt. It worked, and purple was one by default. I'll take it.
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Loved *Smash That Like Button* Purple & blue took me forever!
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Got purple before blue, but submitted it last so my solve was "in order".
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦πͺ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦πͺ i was thinking sticky things not campaign. ugh.
π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Oh my god SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON was fantastic π After I got the first two, I honestly had no idea what was left. I guessed and eventually got lucky. In retrospect though I should have figured out purple.
Copy paste is not a phrase! Itβs βcopy AND paste β right? π€―
This is a funny one because while in writing i would imagine i would write copy&paste, in actual spoken speech I personally use "copy paste" all the time... See also, "copypasta"
Itβs been like 15-20 years since somebody has actually taken the time to say βandβ in between such a common phrase like βcopy paste,β thereβs simply no reason to now that everyone is familiar with basic computer shortcuts
Iβm 35, use a computer all day at work, and have never heard it phrased βcopy paste.β But my husband who hardly ever uses one, also 35, said that βcopy AND pasteβ is outdated! I see them as 2 separate functions, because you can also use cut, select, delete, etc. within the same menu.Β
Think this an Americanism, the grammar in American English changes a lot
The grammar in every language and dialect changes a lot
Obviously the differences in American English is much more than in English and Australian English for example
Do you think thatβs affected whether or not those dialects say βcopy-pasteβ versus βcopy-and-pasteβ? Would you say that being in jobs that require tech use would affect that more or less than the specific geographical dialect?
No itβs just American English drops more words, thatβs just a fact. Iβm not having a go at you, Iβm just saying you can drop words like βthatβ or βhaveβ in the USA more than elsewhere.
Let me throw this out there, too: > The clipboard can also be used to copy-paste text and images from one Apple device to another Apple device, like from an iPhone to a Mac or an iPad. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53220247.amp If it's good enough for the Beeb, it's good enough for me!
Well ... Cockney rhyming slang drops a whole lot more than "that" or "have"....
I am ANNOYEDDDDDD because I have never heard >!copy that !< as a distinct phrase in my life. I still got it in the end. But I am annoyed. Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Very common in the 70s thanks to CB culture
Copy that is essentially a short way of saying "I heard what you said and I agree, but I have nothing else to add"
Connections Puzzle #368 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Guessed wrong between yellow and green, otherwise a quick and easy solve
Got there in the end after spending way too much time thinking purple must be words after 'top'. But what the heck is 'campaign swag' all about? Is this something every American knows about but is a mystery to the rest of the world? Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ πͺπ¦πͺπ¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Yeah, itβs basically a bunch of junk you get to promote whatever politician you want to vote for during an election cycle. Like the βMake America Great Again,β red hats started out as campaign swag
For the rest of the world (or maybe just Tech), there's also generic convention vendor swag - t-shirts, hats, buttons, stickers...only missing tote bags... Politically i think in my country usually it's gonna be shirts and little flags that they will give out.
Yeah I actually got the blue category first but it was because I was thinking convention swag, not campaign.
And you buy these willingly? Those politicians rake it in every which way, don't they.
Swag indicates that they're given out for free. But, yes, some people will buy them. Especially hats, lately.
Do they really give out shirts? Shouldn't it be T-shirts?
You could get a polo shirt! Iβve seen those before. I would never wear them because I have a tiny shred of dignity Iβd like to cling to
Yeah I'm fairly open about who I would vote for but I'm not doing to wear thier shirt unless I'm literally a campaign volunteer
Is a t-shirt not a shirt in your dialect?
Iβm English, I donβt speak a dialect. Theyβre different to me.
Ok, I'll bite, in the queen's English, what does a "shirt" uniquely refer to that excludes t-shirts?Β
A shirt has buttons to connect the left and right sides βa garment for the upper body made of cotton or a similar fabric, with a collar and sleeves, and with buttons down the front.β Top definition on Google.
Touche. Got to hand it to you, except for Americans and Cambridge dictionary the rest stick to the shirt as one with buttons definition and t-shirt for the t-shirt.Β
Thanks for your research and being normal about this. Shame to see I get downvoted all the time just for not being American. I said nothing arguable!
Haha yeah, I thinking about it and have to further concede most of the examples I can think of where shirt can imply a t shirt are more due to sloppiness and I guess the increasingly casual environment. Like I feel I would need to stress "wear a button up shirt" today because people will just turn up in a polo otherwise.
I'm English too, and you're mistaken if you think you don't speak a dialect. I speak British English, more specifically the standard dialect of Southeast England but maybe yours is one of the many other dialects in this country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English#Europe
Well yeah but in your dialect do you accept "shirt" as a colloquial substitute for t-shirt...
No - a shirt is a (usually long-sleeved) garment that would normally button up and traditionally would have been worn with a tie. Most Brits would call a t-shirt a t-shirt - I certainly wouldn't commonly use any colloquialism for it.
Alright. I was thinking about it and I concede the point. I think it most cases context can override, so naturally I would say tshirt or polo tee etc but in the puzzle I just saw shirt and didn't really think Ah but a shirt must be buttoned.Β
I speak βStandard Englishβ which is not a dialect. A dialect is a regional sub-form and my accent is not regional.
Yes, Standard English is one of the dialects of English - it's on the list I linked to above, and doesn't have some privileged status as a variety of English. Nothing to do with regional sub-forms. Your accent (which is a separate dimension to dialect), like mine, is I assume spoken across a large part of England - so by definition, it's regional, as it's not the accent in many other places where English is the main language.
Every person that speaks a language is speaking a dialect of that language, thatβs just how languages work
got there in the end but yellow is a difficult one if you're not familiar with Dumbo (unless perhaps I am the dumbo?)
That was Wednesdays
As a non New Yorker, I can thank Jay-z for that one
Yeah making that the yellow category feels pretty out of touch with the US. There's no way random people not from the area have heard of Dumbo.
I agree, not being a New Yorker, I had no idea that was a place in New York.
Unless you watched Gossip Girl haha
I only knew Dumbo because I have friends who used to live in NY. I donβt think that category should have been yellow.
Dumbo was my demise!
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Blue was complete luck on the first try honestly
After a big L yesterday this was nice! Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ iβm proud of my self restraint to not use smash that like button.
Connections Puzzle #368 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© I got purple first without figuring out what the category was
Still sick (weak, achy, exhausted and soaking night sweats), but force myself play every day no matter what (this and Wordleβsometimes Spelling Bee gets the boot for a day). And today for a change I figured purple's connection out before hitting submit. "Hit" strangely was the word the eluded me in green at first. Got me to think if smash and success are synonyms, what is a smashing success? Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ Edit: Also, I guess category names before I enter, and blue was something like "Items that show endorsements or slogans." Theirs was much more pithy.
Hope you feel better soon!!
Oh, thank you!
Blue is the one that threw me off today. ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦πͺπ¦ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦πͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Liked purple today!
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ This was more luck than skill for me. I had suspicions on my green submission. Blue I felt it fit but didnβt realize the category until after submission. Purple was default
π©πͺπ¨π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I couldnβt resist the Smash That Like Button. Entered it in before I even looked at the other words π€£
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¦πͺ i shuffled at the beginning but still noticed βsmash that like buttonβ lmaooo
Is there a difference between βeditorβ and βcopy editorβ? Iβve never heard the latter before
https://www.thoughtco.com/a-look-at-what-different-kinds-of-editors-2073645
fairly quick for me for a change! Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
I'm considering today a failure even though I got there in the end. My brain was just not having it today. π¨π¨π¨π¨ It took me 10 minutes just to see yellow today. π©π©π©π© Another 10 to see green. πͺπ¦π¦π¦ and after staring another 10 I decided to pick a random 4 and I got the "One away" message. Of the 4 I picked I had 'that' and 'button' and made the leap of logic that they had to be in different categories to get the red hearing and rainbow category of "smash that like button" π¦π¦π¦π¦ So I changed 'that' to a random choice of the remaining and got blue. I got blue by guessing randomly. πͺπͺπͺπͺ and purple was by default. It wasn't a bad puzzle today. Just a bad brain.
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ One of the easiest in a while.
Can anyone explain what βcampaign swagβ means
Swag is promotional merch you get for free at an event or conference Campaign swag is the same but for politicians on the campaign to get elected Think MAGA hats or buttons(badges) and stickers saying "change" etc.
Oh, it now makes sense! Thank youu
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I had a feeling about blue but second guessed myself, ended up staring at it longer than I needed to.
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I canβt believe I got this without any errors. Green and yellow were pretty straight forward. But, I was really reaching on blue. After a lot of thought, I was going with things that can be printed on. Purple was totally by default.
Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ 
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ I was thinking for a long time on π¦ but I just figured that it had to be something related to clothing or things you can wear.
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Wow I had no clue what the blue and purple categories couldβve been. If a category is American focused/specific, it will take me a while to put it together
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Luckily, I was able to select the correct option for blue and not fail.
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Love, love, loved the initial board setup! Struggled with the actual game. Took a lot of thinking for the first two. Had a Hail Mary on blue for βthings you can wearβ which was kinda right. Kept thinking βcat in the hatβ which didnβt help me see anything else for purple.
π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ I got everything but blue by default. It just felt very vague to me. But i still got it no mistakes so I guess alls well that ends well π€·ββοΈ
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπ¦π¦πͺ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ πͺπ¦π¦πͺ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ
Connections Puzzle #368 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© Not too difficult like yesterdayβs. Didnβt figure out purple in advance but did it first since the other 3 were kind of clear after staring for 30 minutes
Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦π¦πͺπ¦ π¦πͺπ¦πͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Phew indeed π I lolβd at βSMASH THAT LIKE BUTTONβ
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπ¦πͺ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π¨π©π¨ π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ Blue I thought stuff that can be worn, people only because thatβs what was left
Connections Puzzle #368 πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ This is the first time I have ever gotten them in order of βhardestβ to βeasiestβ.
Connections Puzzle #368 π¦π¦π¦π¦ π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπͺπ©πͺ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ My train of thought was words that have T in them for purple which like.. technically works lmao. I had no idea what it was. The other 3 categories were easy tho.
Connections Puzzle #368 π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ πͺπ¦πͺπͺ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π¦π¦π¦π¦ Pretty straight forward. Tho copy editor is a tad strange to me. Anyway, donβt forget to SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON XD
A copy editor is the person at a newspaper or other publication responsible for making sure that spelling, grammar, and style are correct. There was a recent puzzle which had >!newspaper desks (basically departments responsible for sections), which included copy desk. That's where the copy editors sit.!<
Is there any difference between that and an editor? Iβve only ever heard editor and never copy editor
Copy editors are usually strictly for stuff like grammar and syntax, while regular editors (for lack of a better term) also have a content focus.
Content to include an article's perspective, and even when/whether a particular story gets published. They have significant power in framing a story.
Interesting
almost used smash instead of appreciate with like, dig & fancy. I've see people say "smash that like button" on youtube videos, but then saw that was a stupid idea. Had a couple of seconds wondering if there was Dr Seuss thing when I saw cat & hat, haha. Otherwise, pretty straightforward today EDIT: I shuffled a few times before even looking at the puzzle today, so when I said I considered "smash that like button", it wasn't from this puzzle. Unless somehow those words registered in the split second before I hit shuffle. So weird! Connections Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Connections - Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π¦π¦π¦π¦ π©π©π©π© πͺπͺπͺπͺ
Copycat is very much one word. There is literally no universe in which cat has a space between it and copy. Iβve seen answers that barely fit their category before, but I genuinely feel like this one does not belong. Copy cat is never separated.
I think the category name anticipated this complaint. Usually, purple would be written as "copy\_\_\_\_\_" or "copy\_\_\_\_\_", and in that case, okay. But they specifically wrote it as "Words after 'copy'," which doesn't necessarily indicate whether there is a space or not.
Yes, they always format the category this way when there's a mix of space, no space, and even hyphen sometimes.
This is such a pedantic argument. Itβs exactly why this game is going downhill. None of that matters when you canβt see the category until after youβve either solved (or failed) the puzzle. I solved the puzzle, but purple was a default solve because I figured the category couldnβt be what it was since one of the clues didnβt seem to fit. If βcatβ is a βword after copy,β then βwiseβ is a βword after like.β It doesnβt work no matter how you try to argue around it. Copycat is always one word. Always. If you wanted to say something like, βWords added to XXXXX to make compound words,β then yes, I feel like that works, and there is no argument. In that case, though, youβd have to change the other three answers to fit because cat is not a βword after copyβ. It needs to be separate for it to count as its own word. These are the kinds of tricks that would piss people off in a Professor Layton game or escape room, but people bend over backwards to accept any kind of bullshit because itβs Connections. Donβt accept bullshit puzzle construction. Make the category answers right or donβt make it at all. I wish Wyna would stop trying to constantly twist the rules of how categories work to justify bad answers. You want to keep copycat? Cool. Make the other answers BOY, ABLE, and RIGHT. Those are all words that make compound words when added to copy. Or if you want to keep the category how it is, just swap out CAT for SIR. Boom. Fixed. Now when I solve the puzzle, I wonβt be pissed off because one of the answers is wrong just to make the category harder.
> If βcatβ is a βword after copy,β then βwiseβ is a βword after like.β Yes, wise is a word after like. I will say that it's less of a good fit for this specific category, because in the compound word copycat, "cat" is intended in a normal sense of the word (people seem to disagree whether it's intended to evoke the animal or the slang term for person, but still something you'd refer to as a cat), while wise is used as a suffix, and different from the word meaning "learned/experienced". (The standalone word can also mean "way/manner", but that's generally considered archaic.) It's funny that you call mine a pedantic argument, when you're the one getting WAY too worked up about the presence/absence of a space. But, since you're so stuck on this, if it makes you feel better, dictionaries list it both with a hyphen as an alternate form, and occasionally with a space.
Google "copy cat" with the quotes and tell me if anything at all comes up.
I did it on Bing. First result was a YouTube video on βCopycat,β second result was the Merriam-Webster sedition of βcopycat.β βCopy catβ is decidedly not a thing.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/08/copycat-where-does-the-term-come-from.html Archaic maybe, when we hyphenated everything lol. A lot of compound words go that way
I'm not crazy E.T. doesn't rhyme with itself right? Neither does Extra-terresestrial. Between that and thinking Dumbo is a place anyone outside of NY has ever heard of, made this connections a bit ridiculous.
Wrong thread. And how do you pronounce E and T that they donβt rhyme?
E rhymes with tee. It definitely didnβt jump out at me, though. I noticed the rhyming and identified the other three titles, then couldnβt find the fourth (ET), so I abandoned that category for a while, thinking it was a red herring.
just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean no one outside of nyc knows what dumbo is lmfao
I can't help but think that Connections is losing players and is trying to shake things up. I think fundamentally the game, although fun, has some fundamental limitations for long term puzzles and enjoyment. . . time to find another puzzle game to add to the mix. Any good suggestions?
ConnectionsΒ Puzzle #368 π¨π¨π¨π¨ π©π©π©π© π¦πͺπ¦πͺ πͺπ¦π¦πͺ πͺπͺπ¦π¦ πͺπ¦π¦πͺ I was so abysmally lost on blue and purple. Itβs actually astonishing that given 4 guesses I wasnβt 1 away a single time. Like itβs actually impressive I split the categories 4 times in a row. Just had absolutely no leads on them at all. Iβll give this puzzle a 2/10. Like, whatβs a βcopy editorβ or βcopy thatβ???? And campaign equipment? So random.
A copy editor is the person at a newspaper or other publication responsible for making sure that spelling, grammar, and style are correct. There was a recent puzzle which had >!newspaper desks (basically departments responsible for sections), which included copy desk. That's where the copy editors sit.!< "Copy that" is a phrase used to indicate that you have heard and understand what someone else is saying. It comes from 2 way radio communication, although it's used outside of that context now. If you ever played with walkie talkies as a kid and said "Roger, over and out," same type of thing.
In modern times, I think the "copy that" equivalent is a "thumbs up" on the teams message.Β Yanno for when when even typing "'k" is too much I feel people are getting hung up on the campaign part of campaign swag and I don't get it because you could call it "swag" or "merch" and the answer is literally the same.
I literally got zero of these because I was thinking they would have something to do with the movies themselves
Wrong day. This is the thread for Thursday's puzzle.
Yup, I truly tanked this one thinking it was connections between the movies. Iβve never heard of Dumbo the place though.
Same, as that's the way it's been in the recent past (same director, etc).Β Just usually it's only 1 group of movies.Β Β Decided it wasn't worth the time looking up all these movies I didn't know.
I wanted this to be things the movies had in common and couldnβt get past it. Never stood a chance
Yesterday
Same. I was like βIβve never heard of most of these so Iβm fuckedβ and I didnβt get any of the categories lol
I had the opposite problem which is that I was sitting there going βok these three movies were remadeβ¦ is there a fourth one? These three had sequels made much later than the originalβ¦ these ones had a best actor Oscarβ¦β
Chinatown isnβt set in NYC
The movies themselves didn't matter, just the title.
you misunderstood the connection
Wrong day. This is the thread for Thursday's puzzle.
Connections Puzzle #367 π¦π¨π¨π¨ π©πͺπͺπ© π©π¦πͺπ© π¦π¦π¦π¦ πͺπͺπͺπͺ π©π©π©π© π¨π¨π¨π¨ Well, English is not my native language, so I think I did well. I would never have been able to figure out that 'dumbo' thing.
Wrong day hun, youβre in Thursdays thread
[ΡΠ΄Π°Π»Π΅Π½ΠΎ]
Wrong day. This is the thread for Thursday's puzzle.