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With the Yliad arc wrapped up, Volume 2 of The Daily Spell is serializing the Oscar Wilde play, The Importance of Being Earnest! I’m really excited for everyone to enjoy its rapid-fire quips and shenanigans (and as for me, I’ll be enjoying a break from writing every day!)
Important note: Volume 2 daily updates are only be available at the-daily-spell.com, not on itch. But since we have this forum, feel free to discuss the The Importance of Being Earnest puzzles and developments here.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=anyone%2C+any+one&year_start=1800&... not at the time this was written, usually!
This might also be a difference in continent... you have to remember Oscar Wilde is writing in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as well as during the mid-nineteenth century (apologies if this is known to you - I don't mean to patronise) and both the meaning of words as well as their "spelling" change faster most people realise - it is just that in English there are a _lot_ of words and there is a limit to how many words change at any one time and though it's difficult for anyone to track at the time, after the fact, once things have settled down for a particular expression, any-one can see it. With other languages with a smaller vocabulary and less geographical range the effect becomes much more concentrated and a greater swathe of the more used vocabulary shifts, though this is changing over time as mass education and mass media reduce the differences in each languages population that geography tends to impose.
It is - hence my having studied it! - but please only take this as a massive overgeneralisation of the actual situation since all this varies massively with education levels, curriculum content and prescriptiveness, language morphology, cultural norms as well as cultural lynchpins (e.g. In Britain the monarchy's use of English is highly conservative and pins a swathe of (British (RP)) English to older meanings to a greater degree than countries with a more verbally fluid "aristocracy" (those whom society / culture tends to emulate the speech of - the upper class and celebrities in the UK, the middle class, idols and royalty in Japan).)
Sorry... got carried away, hence the nested brackets! ;)
A good compromise, I think, and a fun way to read some classics in the public domain. Also a play I love, so that's exciting! I imagine that breaking the scenes up in a way that does not feel too choppy over a longish period of time, since it was meant to be experienced all in one go, may turn out to be the biggest challenge . But a(this) play does have the benefit of being naturally split into scenes. ☺️
Yeah, I’m curious to see how it goes. I’m hoping that the new UI will help, because it always shows all the previous text (but lands you at the bottom to solve the most recent one) so the context is there if you scroll up. I hope everyone will let me know how it feels as we get a little bit further in.
Indeed! As for spoilers, I feel we don’t need to be strict about them when discussing The Importance of Being Earnest. If folks don’t want to be spoiled on a 130-year-old play they can not check the thread until they’re caught up.
While I’m thinking about it - I’ll probably make separate discussion threads for each of the three acts, to give a little bit of structure, but I think we’ll be okay within that.
Anyway, to answer the question, Itch doesn’t have good spoiler tags, annoyingly, although there’s this technique: /t/2151831/adding-spoiler-text-to-your-game-description
It definitely makes it easier, and I should take that into account when trying to pick a good sentence and set the puzzle to make sure it’s not too trivial. But I think I’d prefer to err on the side of easier rather than hard/frustrating, which people have reported with unmarked names (and I agree.)
