Talk:Rebus/Archive 1

CopyVio
It looks like most of this page was plagiarised from the definition of "rebus" on www.answers.com.


 * I believe that [answers.com] is (among other things?) a mirror of Wikipedia, so the definition there will have legitimately come from this site. --JimmyTheWig 12:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Also all these supposed "rules" for interpreting rebuses are actually counter to the spirit of a rebus. Normally a rebus is a violation of the normal rules governing language - to introduce a set of rules by which a rebus could be interpreted is exactly to eliminate the vital characteristic of a rebus. STUPID. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.243.12 (talk) 15:28, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Cant see
According to the Wikipedia article, This Old Man is a rebus. I can't see how, myself.

Is there something about a rebus that this article is missing?

--JimmyTheWig 16:57, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

I also can't see how earth + nurse = athens. Thats just not a rebus in english please remove. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.243.12 (talk) 15:11, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Doubt
"Nowadays, rebus puzzles are used as brainteasers and placed in IQ tests."

I doubt that. What IQ test bears rebus puzzles? None of the clinically recognized ones that I know of. So please cite a clinically recognized IQ test as an example in the article or get rid of the "and placed in IQ tests" part.

Not
By the definition given in the first part of the article, the I (heart) NY logo and the example puzzles are not rebuses. These examples are simply false and should be removed. Mrrhum 04:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I (heart) New York simply uses a symbol in place of a word, and the puzzles are just word teasers.  I'm going to remove that section. JesterXXV 18:18, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Page being used for personal promotion
Airvegny, twice now you've tried to put your own examples of "rebuses" on this page, puzzles directly from your website that use come convoluted letter-deletion and letter-swapping code to change the name of a picture into the name of a city. These aren't rebuses - rebuses involve at most dropping letters from images, not rearranging the letters in the word representing the image. If you can show a source from something other than your website that demonstrates this as a rebus, then that would be better, but even if you did, including more than a single example is unencyclopedic - Wikipedia isn't for logic puzzles, and there's no reason to have an entire section of them as what you outright said was meant as a game for the readers. --Idran (talk) 03:12, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


 * You mistake. This is real rebuses. See exapmles and evidence. Google, Other encyclopedies


 * None of the Google images from that link you provided have the apostrophe scheme, as far as I can see. I don't think that such a minor subtype of rebuses fits the article, much less multiple examples of such, when the article itself is very succinct.  Removing them isn't vandalism in any way. Capntastic (talk) 07:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Regardless, the examples provided add nothing but length to the article. A single example is more than adequete. Angrysockhop ( talk to me ) 06:56, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Sk8, B&, 4play and so on
Why is there no mention of such usages? Those are rebuses, no? --TiagoTiago (talk) 14:40, 2 June 2010 (UTC) And how about I.O.U. and tax form 1040-EZ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.225.17.141 (talk) 05:22, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Add a section on Rebus Stories: rebuses are not just puzzles
The most mainstream meaning of rebus that I've always been familiar with is their use as a pedagogical aid: for example kid's books where pictures of words are placed above the words or instead of words. They aren't designed to 'trick' people or be puzzles. They are especially helpful for folks learning a new language. Perhaps distinguish them by calling them 'rebus stories' and the other type 'rebus puzzles'. Here are just a few sites illustrating examples and uses of rebus stories:
 * http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/rebus/
 * http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html
 * example story: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Boyinthebarn.shtml
 * http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/writing-poetry-with-rebus-273.html
 * http://www.surfnetkids.com/rebus_stories.htm
 * http://www.storygames.com/TeachManPF/Rebus.html
 * http://connectedmath.msu.edu/teaching/differentiated/ell.shtml#rebus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.177.34.233 (talk) 23:59, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Rewrite, Please
Someone needs to rewrite this article in English, using English spelling, syntax, grammar, and punctuation. rowley (talk) 21:01, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

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Gramograms
I've just stub-sorted and expanded Gramogram (aka Grammagram or Letteral word), which seems to be a specialised form of rebus - something like CU or FUNEX, where pronouncing the letters gives a meaning. Comments, contributions, or a reliable source for the name of these things (quite possibly not the one being used in the article, but I can't find anything else) welcome! Pam D  11:50, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

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