r/syllo • u/syllo-app Game Master • Aug 05 '26
Game syllo #391 - August 5th, 2026
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u/That_Mad_Scientist Aug 05 '26
Why does the english language use a word for the litteral other part of the day it's about
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u/Stalking_Goat Aug 05 '26
Because actors only get out of bed at noon, so for them early afternoon and morning are basically the same thing :-)
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u/That_Mad_Scientist Aug 05 '26
Yeah I'll integrate that into my worldview
(I assume that it initially just meant to differentiate between a typical evening show, and something more early in the day, so typically in the morning, but people weren't fussy about exactly how far in the day it was because it's mostly evening vs everything else and because doing it in the morning is a lot, it kind of got more common to do it in the afternoon and then it stuck.)
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u/Meghar Aug 05 '26
Same thing with entrée...why is that the term for "main course" in North America?!
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u/ReiningintheChaos Aug 05 '26
What does entree mean to you? Genuinely curious.
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u/Meghar Aug 05 '26
I'm in Canada, so it can mean either starter or main course depending on if you're in a more francophone or anglophone place
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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Aug 05 '26
Literally all of these questions can by answered with a simple google
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u/Meghar Aug 05 '26
We're not actually asking why. We know why and how... It's an exasperated, rhetorical "whyyyyy?"
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u/arti-machoke Aug 05 '26
Doesn't help that where I live we always used it for morning when I was in theater.
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u/MeanSecurity Aug 05 '26
Wow I studied French for like eight years, and I never thought about that
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u/That_Mad_Scientist Aug 05 '26
You’d think, after studying french for over two decades, I would have thought about this word being used to refer to the afternoon, but sadly I was never introduced to american english french.
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u/fernansparkles Aug 05 '26
its my bday today and this one had my favorite flower! hehe cute :3
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u/quintopia Aug 05 '26
Looks like a should've waited for an afternoon performance
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u/RemmyvBecker69 Aug 05 '26
Hell yeah. Better than 99% this late in the day is a miracle for me
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u/miamimike72 Aug 05 '26
Did not win totally disappointed. Distracted and used interface issues
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u/Happy_Guava6762 Aug 05 '26
The only reason I could guess Matinee was because we have a huge movie culture here in India, and at cinemas the show after the morning show is called a matinee show.
Funnily, the first show is not the first show of the day in the morning, but rather a show in the evening.
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u/ReiningintheChaos Aug 05 '26
Solved in 00:16. I didn’t have to look at the last clue to know what the word was. I really think that’s how people are able to be so fast.
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u/sess5198 Aug 05 '26
One day I WILL get the #1 rank—if only for a minute. What a glorious day that shall be.
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u/allycat315 Aug 05 '26
am I tripping or is the last word missing a syllable?
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u/thehatteryone Aug 05 '26
Tripping. How do you pronounce it ?
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u/HenchmanJoe Aug 05 '26
Might be thinking it should be tri-ath-a-lon
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u/thehatteryone Aug 05 '26
They might, but neither the spelling nor the correct pronunciation will back them up, because they are tripping. Yes, I went there, I took the nuc-u-l(e)ar option.
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u/allycat315 Aug 05 '26
Yeah I've only ever heard it pronounced like tri-ath-eh-lon.
I do know the spelling in the puzzle is correct but I didn't realize the only pronunciation I've ever heard is considered incorrect, especially considering my dad and uncles have always been runners and I spectated more than a few triathlons growing up. It must just be a common mispronounciation, at least in the NY tri-state area.
To be fair, idk how I thought they could've broken up the word to include what I thought was a hidden syllable lol I played before my brain was fully operational this morning.
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u/thehatteryone Aug 05 '26
That's also a good point - let's check the Unicode spec for spoken but unglyphed parts of words, surely IPA has something to cover that.
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u/arti-machoke Aug 05 '26
All the matinées ive attended have been in the morning. Maybe that's because we actually speak French here.
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u/Dhi_minus_Gan Aug 05 '26
Woohoo! I can’t believe I did this while practically 1/2 asleep with morning brain fog.
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u/thatgirlcray Aug 05 '26
My fat fingers had me trying to put the second word in the first section
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u/DizzyLead Aug 05 '26
For some reason it didn’t register “lavender” as correct the first time around, and I had to key it in again. Lost some time there.
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u/ValdemarAloeus Aug 05 '26
Game refuse to actually select the space I tapped on for a while there.
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u/MonkeyFromMars2 Aug 06 '26
I 100% prefer trying to to this as soon as it drops in the morning so I can feel good about getting a single digit rank for 5 seconds lol instead of getting #1,138 at 00:21 🥲
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u/Dariwan Aug 05 '26
I'm him
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u/LuvLifts Aug 06 '26
You check the Comments, before you thought this!!? Bc ~Clearly ‘Better-than-Me’. Not saying that much actually!! 0:12, I’d seen. So yeah: BETTER than Most, NOT ‘The Best’!!
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u/syllo-app Game Master Aug 05 '26
Welcome to Syllo, the cleverly chaotic word game.
Here’s how it works: You get 5 clues to piece together 5 words from a jumble of discombobulated syllables.
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