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PhilBot
26-11-2009, 10:51
English Majors please forgive me if I'm not asking the question correctly...

But...

If I'm engaged in a competition, I'm competing.

If I'm being cooperative, I'm cooperating.

So... If I'm engaged in a FIRST Coopertition... what am I doing (in one word)?

Cooperteting?
Competerating?

I'm up for suggestions.

Phil.
JB987
26-11-2009, 10:56
Coopertitioning?
PhilBot
26-11-2009, 11:11
Cool.

Coopertitioning?

How would you say that?

co-op-er-tish-on-ing?

I think any suggested spellings should have a suggested pronunciation attached.
Akash Rastogi
26-11-2009, 11:14
One post before I head to the kitchen to make the stuffing...

It'd be based off of competing and cooperating

Co-opertating.:p :p

Happy thanksgiving all.
JB987
26-11-2009, 11:17
Cool.



How would you say that?

co-op-er-tish-on-ing?

I think any suggested spellings should have a suggested pronunciation attached.

Co-rrrrrect!
dlavery
26-11-2009, 11:23
Shorter is better, so I vote for "cooperting" (co-op-er-ting).


-dave




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JVN
26-11-2009, 12:45
Cooperpeting

Co-op-er-pete-ing
lbarger
26-11-2009, 12:51
I agree with John.
Chris is me
26-11-2009, 13:39
I generally go with one or the other, as I'm usually either competing (on the field) or cooperating (off). If I'm doing both, I'm "being graciously professional" :P.

If I had to pick one I'd go with John's.
Katie_UPS
26-11-2009, 14:51
Coop-er-ting
Rich Kressly
26-11-2009, 22:55
hahahahahahahahahahaahhahaha....

You have no idea how long a colleague of mine and I discussed this VERY thing about six weeks ago preparing to deliver a conference presentation. He posed the question to me and after almost a full day of back and forth, like the veteran English teacher I am, I chickened out and suggested a workaround description.

However, out of what's here so far, I like JVN's choice.
Andrew Schreiber
26-11-2009, 23:13
<Not serious>
Coopertitioneering Pronounced as Co-op per tish in ear ring (See, I even managed to work engineering into there ;) )
</Not Serious>
Akash's was funny too.

JVN's is probably the best but I think that if we tweaked the pronunciation of Dave's we might be onto something since it is much simpler to spell and isn't quite as visually intimidating.
Molten
27-11-2009, 16:04
I have to go with lilstogi. It just seems to follow most grammatical rules and sound right.
DonRotolo
27-11-2009, 16:31
Co-operteting ?
Participating?:rolleyes:
Chris Fultz
27-11-2009, 16:58
coopting or co-opting

co-opt-ing


or)

comopting

com-opt-ing


(i feel like i am playing Balderdash)
demosthenes2k8
27-11-2009, 17:57
Coopertating? (Coop-er-tayt-ing)

Incidentally, is there a verb for "to be Graciously Professional"? There should be.
J93Wagner
28-11-2009, 00:21
Incidentally, is there a verb for "to be Graciously Professional"? There should be.

If you mean for a translation into the infinitive form (Spanish) then I can't help you. But I do think there is a verb in English. In fact you said it yourself. :p
IKE
28-11-2009, 10:41
Copeting. (Co-pete-ing)
RoboMom
28-11-2009, 11:14
Maybe it's time for someone to send a clarification email to Dean's office.
Who knows? The TM or Patent or whatever for the verb may be in progress.
Q. Sheets
28-11-2009, 23:39
Seeing as the word gets its first half from cooperation and second from competition to form "coopertition," the verb must be the same way...

cooperating and competing

So it can only be one of four ways: coopereting, cooperting, coopeeting, or coopeting

However, I agree with dlavery, liking the second best.

Quentin Sheets
johnr
08-12-2009, 19:55
Spotted this in the game description of Mario Brothers for wii [•Join up to three friends for hilarious multiplayer action that combines competition and cooperation }. Maybe someone should trademark a word and sell it to nintendo
Cynette
10-12-2009, 17:48
I need to get int CD more frequently! This thread just made my day!

So far my favorite, although totally impractical answer is:
<Not serious>
Coopertitioneering Pronounced as Co-op per tish in ear ring (See, I even managed to work engineering into there ;) )
</Not Serious>

I'm leaning torward Co-opeting pronounced Co-op-eet'-ing.

I can see it now at a competition...
Adult to students- What are you doing?
Student 1 - We're co-operpeting!
Student 2 - No, we're co-opertating!
Student 3 - You're both wrong! We're co-operting!
Student 1 - No I'm right!
Student 2 - No way! We are definitely co-opertating!
and so on, until...
Adult - I don't think it matters whatever you are trying to say, shouldn't you all be driving the robot?
Gary Dillard
12-12-2009, 10:21
I'm going to go with Dave here.

You used different forms of the base words in your examples. The equivalents are (noun - adjective - verb):

Cooperation - Cooperative - Cooperating
Competition - Competitive - Competing

So by combining the common parts you get:
Coopertition - Coopertitive - Cooperting

Note that the adjective form is different than the verb form (as it is in competitive and competing)
Alan Anderson
14-12-2009, 09:08
Cooperation - Cooperative - Cooperating
Competition - Competitive - Competing

So by combining the common parts you get:
Coopertition - Coopertitive - Cooperting


Bravo!
PhilBot
14-12-2009, 09:30
I'm going to go with Dave here.

You used different forms of the base words in your examples. The equivalents are (noun - adjective - verb):

Cooperation - Cooperative - Cooperating
Competition - Competitive - Competing

So by combining the common parts you get:
Coopertition - Coopertitive - Cooperting

Note that the adjective form is different than the verb form (as it is in competitive and competing)

Looks good on paper, but the middle form is very akward and doesn't seem right to me. How many sylables does it have?
Gary Dillard
24-04-2012, 13:00
I thought I'd resurrect this thread , since it's such an integral part of this year's game. We forgot to include the true verb tense, which would be (by the reasoning above) "to cooperte". Thus, in asking the opposing alliance if they would like to join you on the coopertition bridge, the correctly phrased question should be "Would you like to cooperte with us?".
lakstick
24-04-2012, 17:44
From what I had heard, the Coopertition aspect is referring to the mix of competition and cooperation. Balancing on the Coopertition bridge only only involves the cooperating aspect, therefore the verb is just cooperating. I'm not entirely sure if that is correct, but I heard it somewhere. Haha:)