Thread: Tit for Tat expression game

I say an expression a famous one and you answer back the way you wish:


for example


let them eat cake


you say

we don't want cake we want bread

so here it is:


'one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'

Originally Posted by Nacian

so here it is:


'one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'

Nacian, go away with your endless threads based on your inability to understand English. What you have written is a SAW - A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people, it is not a tit-for-tat expression. In a different thread people took time and trouble to explain to you exactly what Tit-For-Tat meant and what construed a tit-for-tat expression by giving you examples, and once agin you have taken no notice and set off on some madcap journey to redefine the English language in your own image. No one here is trying to rewrite French, please leave English alone until you have some slight idea of what you are doing.

Originally Posted by Bloggsworth

Nacian, go away with your endless threads based on your inability to understand English. What you have written is a SAW - A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people, it is not a tit-for-tat expression. In a different thread people took time and trouble to explain to you exactly what Tit-For-Tat meant and what construed a tit-for-tat expression by giving you examples, and once agin you have taken no notice and set off on some madcap journey to redefine the English language in your own image. No one here is trying to rewrite French, please leave English alone until you have some slight idea of what you are doing.

I am sorry?
I cannot possibly understand what your problem is.
This is a perfeclty logical game and I wish to use it to perfect and perform my writing.
Please do not interfer in a rude way just because I happen to have English as a Second language.
and for the records this is the definition of Tit for Tat:

Tit for tat is an English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation". It is also a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

the clue is in retaliation.

And what is retaliatory about 'one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' - which, incidentally should be 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'

Originally Posted by Bloggsworth

And what is retaliatory about 'one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' - which, incidentally should be 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'

Firstly
what is the difference between One and A?
secondly
you can retaliate to that, for fun, in expressive speech, just like limerick, only with expressions like this:

'no one song in the hand is worth two in the mouth' just for laughter.
it is a way of speaking that's all.

Originally Posted by Bloggsworth

And what is retaliatory about 'one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' - which, incidentally should be 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'

To be fair, I think she knows it's not retaliatory. She wants you to retaliate TO the phrase by saying something like, "But a bird in the belly is better than both." Basically trying to one-up commonly overdone sayings.

I'm tired of such posts as well, but I believe she's more on-track with this than you give her credit for.

In which case I apologise.... But it's still not tit-for-tat, it is a rejoinder.

Originally Posted by Bloggsworth

In which case I apologise.... But it's still not tit-for-tat, it is a rejoinder.

Fair point. And anyway, I still share your general attitude. (Though I'm perhaps more optimistic that things can change.)