[Fictionary] djent and amberat, results

Sun Sep 25 10:24:46 EDT 2016

Welcome, Helen!   The real name of the wax-dripping tool is djanting. I have several.  I used to make, teach, and sell batik.  The Indonesians are famous for theirs, which is usually produced using wax-dipped wood block carvings.  They put the wax on from both sides of the cloth. I was a lot more flamboyant in my designs, but many of them resembled medieval scenes, as we were into SCA with our kids back then--yikes! starting in the late 70's--and I made some banners.  Batik was a medieval craft during the middle ages in Indonesia, but also a similar technique of wax resist was used to decorate etched armor in Europe, and for pysanky eggs in Poland and Russia.  As for pathogens associated with health, I read recently that probiotics were invented during some war--WWI or WWII? when some wounded men suffered from severe diarrhea and were only helped from--yuk!--enemas of feces from healthy wounded guys.  I'm sure the probiotics I sometimes use presently in tea or capsules are sterilized in some way.  LInda 

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From: fictioneric at inbox.com
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: [Fictionary] djent and amberat, results
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 18:42:19 -0400

Sorry I have been so slow.

Nicolas is our winner, with eight points total across two definitions 
and a correct vote for amberat!  Welcome, also, to new player Helen, 
who came in second with her well-beloved ice-moving tool.

The real definitions:

djent, n. In music, a subgenre of prog-metal characterized by use of 
high-gain, palm-muted, low-pitch guitar sounds, and low-tuned, 
open-note, syncopated riffing,

It's onomatopoeic, and, yes, it is a thing:

http://got-djent.com/faq#t1100n1922
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/03/djent-metal-geeks

Credit to Linda who pegged this as the real def.

amberat, n. A hard, resinous, substance composed of dessicated rat urine.

It is absolutely "amber" + "rat" because whoever named it was 
incredible. I am thrilled that this exists -- apparently, packrats 
will use the same den continually for tens of thousands of years. In 
the arid US Southwest this can result in amberat deposits inches or 
feet thick.

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/geos462/packratpsm.gif
http://eekosphere.net/?q=2013/04/28/amberat
http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/cprs/research/projects/global_change/middens.asp
http://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-record-keeper.html

Nature is weird. Also, Nicolas got this one right.

Linda:
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djent, n. A wax-dripping tool used in Indonesian batik and now
     used by batik artists everywhere.  
2 Helen, 2 David, 1 Pierre

amberat, n. A dye made from crushed amber, with a seaweed
     fixative.

Elliott: AMBER

Plus one point for a correct vote for djent, total of 6.

David
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djent, n. A sophisticated djinn.

Pierre: A meta-meta-meta-djinn? "Every djinn has a meta (which is 
also a djinn)."
Elliott: Funny!  But not true.

amberat, n. To be and not to be; applied to subatomic particles.
1 Elliott

Nicolas: Shakespeare's Cat?
Elliott: AMBI + ERAT.  This one is also funny.  One point.

Total of 1.

Nicolas
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djent, n. Uncomfortable seating, from Amharic.
1 Ranjit 2 Elliott

Elliott: Plausible, and it would be funny if true.  Two points.
Pierre: This is teffinitely not the sort of word that English would 
borrow from Amharic.

amberat, adj. Located within walking distance.
2 Ranjit, 1 Helen

Elliott: AMBIT.  Everything should be amberat in this sense.

Plus two points for getting amberat right, total of 8.

Ranjit
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djent, n. A light breakfast, usually toasted bread with a savory
     spread.
2 Fran

amberat, n. A sour-sweet mango chutney.
1 Fran

Elliott: Color of AMBER?

Total of 3

Pierre
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djent, n. A funerary urn used during the Middle Kingdom in Egypt.
1 Nicolas

Nicolas: 1 point, though I'm fairly sure I've heard another word for 
this it sounds plausible.

amberat, n. A messenger who rode a circuit in the Roman Empire.

Elliott: AMBIT + ERAT?

Total of 1

Jean-Joseph
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djent, n. A tool for removing a pear from a bottle of brandy.

amberat, n. A sweet, syrupy liqueur produced from a pear that has
     been soaked in brandy.

Pierre: AMBRETTE. All such defs will be peared away.
Elliott: Shoot, what's a liqueur?  I know they can be sweet and 
syrupy, but do you make them by soaking something in actual liquor? 
No idea.

Total of 0

Helen
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djent, v. To brag, especially with regard to strength or skill in
     sports.

amberat, n. A tool for lifting and transporting blocks of ice
     harvested from a lake or river.
1 David, 2 Linda, 2 Jean-Joseph, 2 Pierre

Jean-Joseph: I've seen some museum exhibits about this, and there is 
a word for this, but I don't think it's amberat.  Two points anyway.
Elliott: Oooh!  Interesting.  They used to do that in the old days; I 
remember hearing that ice from Spy Pond was even exported to 
Argentina when it was summer there.  But would the same tool be used 
for both lifting and transporting?
Linda: . . . and two points to the ice-cutting tools, in memory of my 
great-grandfather who had an ice business.

Total of 7

Fran
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djent, n. A leaf-shaped shield made of layers of thick leather
     over a rib-bone frame.
1 Jean-Joseph

Elliott: Rib bone of what species?  Something sturdy, I hope.  Mammoths?

amberat, n. An early synthetic resin meant to imitate amber.
     Commercial success was prevented by its very low melting
     temperature.

Elliott: AMBER

Total of 1

Elliott
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djent, n. A trained python used to clear a jam in a pneumatic-
     mail system.

Jean-Joseph: Excellent.

amberat, n. A trained mongoose used to remove pythons from a
     pneumatic-mail system.

Jean-Joseph: And the perfect follow-up.
Pierre: A de-obstructor constrictor destructor.
Nicolas: With what do you remove the mongoose?
Elliott: Ferrets would have been of a more plausible caliber, but 
that sounded too much like RAT.

Total of 0

Djent comments:

Fran: None of these look real.
Linda: The mango chutney sounds yummy as does the pear in the liqueur 
bottle, but I must give one vote for the musical djent with its 
myriad descriptions, in honor of my nephew the Heavy Metal musician. 
(Eric says: good call!))
Nicolas: I don't know what those details mean but it sounds like I'd 
like it? (Eric says: be sure to report back and tell us whether you 
did.)

Amberat comments:

Fran: All of these also look like fake definitions, though I loved 
the mongoose.
Nicolas: 2 points. Too gross to not be real?
Elliott: AMBER + RAT

Take it away Nicolas!

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