Timeline for In English are there any rules to prefer the word order "rock, paper, scissors" to name the game?
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| Nov 9, 2021 at 19:24 | comment | added | vectory | Oops, I see @AakashM confirmed the English reading. I want say that not-English is entirely subjective, but since I as ESL do understand AmE fairly well and BrE not really, and neither one understands me even on paper, I'd come down with a triangular argument, not to say circular | |
| Nov 9, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | vectory | I'm not buying the "catalectic trochaic trimeter", though I am in no place to argue about it (I think scissors may be problematic w.r.t. to prosody, for what it's worth). Rather, I suggest that the commentator in question was not speaking about English and instead has translated their form without clearly indicating. It is scissors, stone, paper (Schere, Stein, Papier) Don't ask me about meter but it swings; also klick-klack-kluck and what not. It's notable that meter is important when the phrase is said each beat matching a swing of the fist, until the fist is opened to reveal. | |
| Nov 6, 2021 at 22:33 | vote | accept | Andrey | ||
| Nov 5, 2021 at 11:40 | comment | added | Andrey | After trying to reteach my brain for a day to a new order I think I notices that it's important that people who end with "scissors" say "shoot" often. If you don't ending in "rock" feels most natural as it gives you a good beat to throw the shape. But besides that I think you are right and the order is arbitrary. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 9:57 | comment | added | Vladimir F Героям слава | I am wondering whether the stress on the last word when in-game reciting in Czech makes papír (short-long) better sounding in the final position than the other two (long-short). The stress accent is the same on the first syllable for all of them (all two syllable). The order is the same as in Russian, but the words sound quite differently. | |
| Nov 5, 2021 at 9:21 | history | edited | Yellow Sky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2021 at 9:14 | history | answered | Yellow Sky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |