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Machette New user Australia 17 Posts 
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Which of these is the odd one out?
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Prevent.
I always find these questions interesting. Not because of the clever criteria by which the pariah is identified, but because there is generally no objective reason that those are the appropriate criteria. For example, one could say that "Excuse" is the odd one out because it is the only word whose first letter cannot be written (i.e., printed, as a capital) in a single, uninterrupted stroke without retracing. |
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Machette New user Australia 17 Posts
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Correct!
I agree that these questions can have many answers but I find that that makes for an interesting puzzle. Sorting through all the possibilities to find the one correct one. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Exactly. Sort of like answering an essay question: it doesn't so much matter what position you take as long as you can support it with well-reasoned arguments.
By the way, shall we tell them why prevent is correct, or let 'em stew about it themselves for a while? |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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It's the only one of the five that is a God-awful defensive strategy in football.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Machette New user Australia 17 Posts
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I think we wait for a while before we tell them why. Let a few other people have a go.
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WilburrUK Veteran user 389 Posts
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I think I know why it's prevent, but having heard various sports commentators, I'm not sure it is, or will be for long exactly correct.
The only time I've heard of a prevent defence was on Roger Waters album "Amused to death" - fortunately I don't have to endure American football matches being beamed into my home ;-). |
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts
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I think it has to do with pronounciations.
Professor Spellbinder
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mgclmystrymn New user 76 Posts
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Different pronunciations depending on what part of speech the word is used for. The verb and noun forms are pronounced differently. Prevent is a verb only, unless it is used in combination with another word e.g. "prevent defense" (American football). In that case the pronunciation is the same.
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Machette New user Australia 17 Posts
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Correct!
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Nir Dahan Inner circle Munich, Germany 1390 Posts
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On 2009-03-06 19:13, S2000magician wrote: It is the same with number sequences, where the next in turn is asked for. actually you can just name ANY arbitrary number and you can prove it is next in sequence (by easily building a continuous function going through all the values in sequence). ND |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2009-03-08 07:34, Nir Dahan wrote: Exactly! I recall in a calculus text out of which I taught there was an example of a sequence that began 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, . . . . They gave either three or four formulae for the general terms of sequences; all would produce the same four terms shown as the first four terms of the sequence, but the fifth terms were all different; further, some were convergent and others were not. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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On 2009-03-07 14:41, mgclmystrymn wrote: Maybe there's a local usage thing at issue here, but I'm accustomed to hearing the verb "pre-VENT" and the football term "PRE-vent"
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Machette New user Australia 17 Posts
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Yeah, I've never heard it as PRE-vent but then again I'm from Australia and I don't watch much football.
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