Namechange

[prog]

I hereby declare that the name of the puzzle-solving group that gathers together at my house sometimes, and is mostly-but-not-entirely made of members from the "Immoral, Illegal & Fattening" MIT mystery hunt team, to be Shabbas Llamas. This comes from an excellently incorrect clue answer we generated on Sunday, thanks to hahathor.

For lack of a better name, I two months ago described ourselves as "Immoral Illegal & Fattening (and friends)" for listing purposes in the issue's leaderboard, since we placed among the previous issue's first ten solvers. I regretted this as soon as I saw it in print; it struck me as an unauthorized use of a name that I don't own, and felt yuckier given that IIF's team captain is listed in the magazine's masthead.

I like this solution much better, and hope nobody thinks ill of me for the unintentional slight!

Comments

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

Sure they do. It's pronounced Shabbat Llamat. Accent on the second syllable in both words. At least, that's how I read it.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

is that pronounced /sha-BAT ya-MAT/?

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

I was thinking /sha-BAT la-MAT/, but there's a good case for a y instead of an l.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I'd go with Shabbat Llamot, myself, since the second word is clearly a feminine plural. :-)

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

Good point, but doesn't that break the rhyme?

[dougo.livejournal.com]

It wasn't meant to be a rhyme, but it was meant to have only As as vowels (to fit the puzzle theme). Shabbat Llamas would work just as well, I think, or even Sabbath Llamas. Although Shabbas Llamas has nice assonance and meter (at least the way hahathor pronounced it).