Re: SCWC 86 results

Flying Tortoise <purple.mug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Aug 1, 2:19=A0pm, Steve Ball <pretty.g...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Flying Tortoise:





On Jul 30, 9:47=A0am, Steve Ball <pretty.g...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Flying Tortoise:

Dropped off outside riotous hustings, I was recognised (13)
DI(HUSTINGSI anagram)ED
Pretty well done. My only quibble is the use of the past tense =8Cwa=
s=B9
to introduce the definition.

I hate to quibble over a quibble but I kinda have to point out that
DISTINGUISHED, whether as verb or participle, is past tense!

In the cryptic reading, it's just a word. The moderator is objecting t=
o
"[wordplay] _was_ [definition]", when it still is. "Is" obviously does=
n't
work in the surface; what about "Dropped off outside riotous hustings,=
I
might be recognised (13)"? Works for me.

Then he is mistaken in his interpretation. "Was recognised" is the
definition in toto. The "was" is not in any sense a linking word.

Huh? Can you give me an example where "distinguished" is synonymous with
"was recognised"?

Probably not. But I said already the justification is a 'tad
contrived', namely that one is distinguished because one was
recognised.

How about:
"He distinguished red from green in the colorblindness test yesterday"

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Merlyn LeRoy
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