Megamisama90 -June 2024 Contest- [CLOSED]

romanjr370 • 23 June 2024 at 11:27 PM

D14: Spectrophotometer 🌈

twilightshine • 24 June 2024 at 12:27 AM

almost missed this one!

day 14: spectrophotometer

chaotictreat • 24 June 2024 at 5:20 AM

15: photodecomposition
wow i did NOT like this one XD

megamisama90 • 24 June 2024 at 10:53 AM

Good you didn't @twilightshine! ^^

Goes to see the next word 😃 😋

cranberrycat1 • 24 June 2024 at 11:45 AM

photodecomposition

nocturne • 24 June 2024 at 11:49 AM

Day 15: _ _ o _ od _ _ o _ _ osi _ io _

photodecomposition

christine13531 • 24 June 2024 at 11:58 AM

My guess:
15. photodecomposition

sartre • 24 June 2024 at 12:34 PM

Day 15: Photodecomposition

heatherm19 • 24 June 2024 at 12:57 PM

day 15: photodecomposition

Yikes, lol

spacebunny • 24 June 2024 at 2:52 PM

Day 15
_ _ o _ od _ _ o _ _ osi _ io _
p h o t od e c o m p osi t io n

my brain trynna read what this even is, I am no scientist lmao

romanjr370 • 24 June 2024 at 11:43 PM

D15: Photodecomposition 🍃.

heatherm19 • 25 June 2024 at 2:19 AM

day 15: ovoviviparousnesses

Man I had to go through 4 different word-finding sites to find that one. Wow.

megamisama90 • 25 June 2024 at 4:48 AM

@spacebunny Any photochemical reaction that results in the decomposition of a substance. 😋

It's hard to find words that make sense to me. Some are just too strange to be even words. I guess that's what English is all about...

cranberrycat1 • 25 June 2024 at 7:00 AM

ovoviviparousnesses

chaotictreat • 25 June 2024 at 7:41 AM

16: ovoviviparousnesses
i got this one but i don't like it
the "more correct" form of the noun derived from ovoviviparous seems to be ovoviviparity but i'll accept that ovoviviparousness is an alternate one, makes sense and is listed in a couple dictionaries. however i don't see any examples of it being pluralised and to me it doesn't make sense?? some of these word finding sites and/or dictionaries seem to add in words by going "ooh its a noun that means you can pluralise it" but i honestly don't think you can in this case?? it's like saying "people's happinesses", like it makes sense in theory but isn't grammatically correct, you'd just say "people's happiness". i can think of only one example where pluralising a "-ness" suffix makes sense and that's "illnesses". there might be more but i don't think "ovoviviparousnesses" is one of them...
sorry for the rant lmao i just don't like how it looks as a word and had to try and justify myself with some research/explanation XD
at least i know what ovoviviparous means now (and oviparous / viviparous) ! certainly learning lots of new words in this contest 😊

Update this is what my linguist gf had to say about my above rant:
are you familiar with countable versus uncountable plurality?
“Happinesses is used when there are multiple forms or measures of happiness which are to be distinguished. Typically happiness is uncountable.”
this applies to most -nesses, and is grammatical even if it sounds wrong
so you’re wrong in that happinesses isn’t ungrammatical, it’s just a very rare situational form
So I'll admit I was wrong and it's technically correct (although obscure enough that it may as well not be), but I still hate it lmao

nocturne • 25 June 2024 at 9:52 AM

Day 16: _ _ _ _ i _ ipa _ _ us _ _ ss _ s

ovoviviparousnesses, a "bridging" form of reproduction

christine13531 • 25 June 2024 at 1:25 PM

My guess:
16. ovoviviparousnesses (What the actual heck)

twilightshine • 25 June 2024 at 4:15 PM

16: ovoviviparousnesses

help WHAT

spacebunny • 25 June 2024 at 4:35 PM

@megamisama90 ah yes that makes totally sense I get it now!
....I don't XD

Day 16
_ _ _ _ i _ ipa _ _ us _ _ ss _ s
o v o v i v ipa r o us n e ss e s

wow actually something I know, yet I have to agree on @chaotictreat statement, Ovoviviparity is what I am familair too as well or ovivipary/oviparous/Ovoviviparous <- the most common when reading or seeing it as a topic. So I guess its like greatnesses, betterness, illnesses?

But clever in connection to EggCave 😋

romanjr370 • 25 June 2024 at 11:16 PM

D16: Ovoviviparousnesses.

sartre • 25 June 2024 at 11:52 PM

Day 16: Ovoviviparousnesses

heatherm19 • 26 June 2024 at 3:15 AM

Day 17: counterintelligence

chaotictreat • 26 June 2024 at 4:26 AM

17: counterintelligence

megamisama90 • 26 June 2024 at 10:35 AM

@heatherm19 sorryyyyy~

@chaotictreat I see and understand what you're talking about. I did my own research when picking words and this one too. Not the best word out there. But it was listed as a word so I went with it. I like how it looks like in the start (ovovivi). ^^
Wow, thanks for that input from your girlfriend! I picked the right word xD xD hahahh

@christine13531, @twilightshine Of or pertaining to such kind of animals such as some reptiles whose eggs hatch inside their body. My dictionary's answer.

@spacebunny I don't know how else to descibe it. Use Google translate to translate the sentence to your language? For me it works and I understand it. Not my intention but I'll take it 😋 xD

nocturne • 26 June 2024 at 11:15 AM

Day17: _ _ _ nt _ _ int _ _ _ ig _ n _ _

counterintelligence

twilightshine • 26 June 2024 at 2:18 PM

Day 17
counterintelligence

THE NAMES BOND, JAMES BOND

spacebunny • 26 June 2024 at 4:37 PM

Day17

_ _ _ nt _ _ int _ _ _ ig _ n _ _
c o u nt e r int e l l ig e n c e

faster than its own shadow!

cranberrycat1 • 26 June 2024 at 4:48 PM

counterintelligence

christine13531 • 26 June 2024 at 5:59 PM

My guess:
17. counterintelligence

romanjr370 • 26 June 2024 at 10:17 PM

D17: Counterintelligence 📖📚