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Post by robkuntz on Oct 21, 2016 16:13:53 GMT -5
I would describe it as a cross between brainstorming (where all ideas are valid and no judgments are made at this point) and free word association (but not limited to words). It is certainly interplay... that is part and parcel of brainstorming in a non-judgmental environment. interplay |ˈintərˌplā| noun the way in which two or more things have an effect on each other. So Hengest, maybe it's all that imaginative play that I had suggested earlier and that is natural to humans and mammals.... We can attach other symbols to it (i.e., meanings) but in the end is it not imaginative interplay? |
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Post by hengest on Oct 21, 2016 16:33:51 GMT -5
I would describe it as a cross between brainstorming (where all ideas are valid and no judgments are made at this point) and free word association (but not limited to words). Thanks, Mighty Darci. Something like that. It seems to me that there's usually an implicit "limit" to what can be introduced. Which I suppose is true of the things you named. robkuntz, yes, as you said. imaginative interplay. I didn't mean to beat this to death, but when tetramorph asked me to clarify what I meant, I figured I'd give it a shot. Am intrigued by the variety of responses, though. |
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Post by tetramorph on Oct 21, 2016 18:13:23 GMT -5
hengest, okay, I read you. I guess I always thought that those people whom I didn't talk thusly with were folks I wasn't very close to. Perhaps I wasn't very close to them because we didn't have the same imaginative way of conversing? Don't know. There is always a time for small talk. And there is always a time to check in and process things and help each other out. But what you are describing sounds like "having fun together," and "joking around." Which is just the conversation friends have, at least in my experience. So, cool.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 23:40:08 GMT -5
Thanks for the reply, tetramorph . Let me clarify one thing and then I will try to describe the topic in more detail. Clarification: certainly I wasn't suggesting that we were the only culture that had conversations. Just wondering if this thing is at all special or not universal, occurs more often in certain subcultures, is more a lingua franca in some countries, etc. So, what is the thing? I can't even come up with an imitation. Can't do it solo. But a little more description: You are sitting with two or three friends. Someone generates a thought about a situation that could arise ("if Max came over and wanted to play Pathfinder", "it turned out there were possums living in the toilet tank"). Someone elaborates it or introduces a change ("I'm sure he would have us all wear blindfolds so we aren't influenced by our die rolls", "Not in the toilet tank, in the septic tank is more likely"). These are often motivated by some known feature of the kind of situation, a characteristic of the person involved, or adjustment for more or less verisimilitude. Then this snowballs, with various parties adjusting and expanding the "imagined" situation for enhanced fascination, humor, or to illustrate some point. This goes on until it transforms into something else or it's time to fix supper or whatever. Make any sense? Edit: Whoops. Forgot the contrast. Well...apparently some people, even close friends, mostly do what I would consider small talk OR look for comfort or solidarity regarding difficult or annoyimg things in their lives. Um... I'm lost. You're playing Pathfinder while there are opossums in your septic tank? I'm not being sarcastic. I have NO idea what you're trying to say here. |
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Post by hengest on Oct 22, 2016 0:31:26 GMT -5
The idea was that the Pathfinder thing and the possums were separate threads of thought. Unrelated to each other and not taking place at the same time. I see that I explained this poorly.
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Post by robkuntz on Oct 22, 2016 2:54:51 GMT -5
But in keeping with "interplay" I forward "Pathfinder Possums" as now being relevant!  |
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Post by monk on Oct 22, 2016 18:41:21 GMT -5
Absolutely the "soil" has been altered. I think most of us would be appalled if we knew how few children today are growing up without the influence of fairy tales and folktales and parents that read and tell stories and sing with their kids. Some kids are only exposed to sanitized, bland dead stuff. That definitely alters the "soil." If it were up to me part of that school day would be spent on world culture in the form of fairy tales, folk tales, folk songs and the like and children would be taught to tell those tales and sing those songs and how to create their own stories and songs. We are limiting our kids with our current education. There are good schools out there, but they are few and far between. They could do so much more. How many potentially great teachers are being destroyed by our educational system. I agree! Luckily there is still a little leeway, and the "alternative" education movement is growing. I work at a junior high school of the arts that integrates storytelling, animation, painting, theatre, etc. into all of the curriculum. It's wild. I'm not technically a teacher (rather a therapist) but I work with students and have run a "tabletop rpg" enrichment class for the last 3.5 years. Kids of all stripes take to RPGs like lice to hair, as I'm sure you're aware. It's a great opportunity for me to inject the power of fairy tales and legends and just encourage the raw, instinctive love they naturally have for the same. |
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Oct 22, 2016 23:58:33 GMT -5
But in keeping with "interplay" I forward "Pathfinder Possums" as now being relevant! Only if using rules of a non-rule nature. |
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Post by Necromancer on Oct 26, 2016 7:03:05 GMT -5
Slightly off topic perhaps, but hopefully still a valid post since some of the posters here have touched upon the subject. I recently read an article based on a study that stated the following:
80% of our vocabulary derives from written (in various forms) text
The vocabulary of a 7 year old consists of 5000-7000 words
The vocabulary of a 17 year old who has not read or has not been read to, consists of 15000-17000 words
The vocabulary of a 17 year old who has read or has been read to regularly, consists of 50000-70000 words
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Post by Mighty Darci on Oct 26, 2016 7:42:58 GMT -5
As they say, "Reading is FUNdamental!!"  |
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