Prompt Post

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to cut the fun off so quickly because  authoressnebula wanted in on the fun; it was her idea.  I was afraid of frustrating you guys too much, but it seems like we've been caught.  Maybe I should have gone with her other fake prompt: Only Fools Fly at Midnight, but I thought ya'll would get right on those stories.  We are going to do things a little different this week, though.  swweeks went above and beyond to find this: 

âme damnée: A devoted adherent; a tool.
1823 SCOTT Peveril IV. xii. 288 He is the ame damnée of every one about my court{em}the scape-goat, who is to carry away all their iniquities. 1830 C. C. F. GREVILLE Mem. (1874) II. xiii. 96 He [sc. Sefton] is the âme damnée of Lord Grey, and defends everything of course. 1879 M. E. BRADDON Vixen III. vii. 185 Their âmes damnées, the men who hold their hods and mix their mortar. 1917 ASQUITH Let. 13 Nov. (1933) I. 46 We are having Col. House, the Head of the American ‘Mission’, to lunch; he is President Wilson's own particular âme damnée. 1938 S. BECKETT Murphy iv. 54 Neary..boarded the first train for Dublin, accompanied by his âme damnée and man-of-all work, Cooper.

So no random generator this week; the REAL prompt for this week is going to be.... drumroll.....
Devotee

And for those tuning in late, this is the original post that didn't catch too many April Fools.

Good morning guys. So, new week, new prompt. Have fun!

Amedifane

Comments

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Okay, you're going to have to give me a clue. It's not in my big dictionary and I can't even get Google to find it.
What the hell does it mean?

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

That might have been a small April fool's joke. The real prompt is DEVOTEE

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten it was April 1st. The calendar above my laptop was still sitting on March. Slaps self!

[smwright.livejournal.com]

All right. I've done Google, Wikipedia, and the free thesaurus/dictionaries. I've also logged into my faculty access at the university for the full version of the Oxford English Dictionary with no luck. Please help.

Please.

Help.

Anyone?

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

thank god I'm not the only one. I was beginning to think I was doing something spectacularly stupid with Google for me not to have found it.
There is solidarity in collective ignorance!

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Indeed there is! I've found a possibility though. Just posted in a separate comment (below).

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

*looks at prompt* *looks at date* Hmmm

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

You caught us. The real prompt is DEVOTEE

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

It's not that I'm a suspicious type, but merely that I did something similar over at open_on_sunday

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

I kinda like that fake challenge. That would be a serious challenge!

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

oh my god. sunnyd_lite is right isn't she. You're just a very evil puppet master jerking all our strings.

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Going out on a limb here. I've noticed on the LCD display in my car, when I play celtic music, if there are Gaelic song titles with accent marks, the display will not read the accent and will change the letter that comes after the accent. Working on this principle as a possible explanation, the word that actually appears in the OED in the closest position to amedifane is âme damnée. Here is the entry:

âme damnée: A devoted adherent; a tool.
1823 SCOTT Peveril IV. xii. 288 He is the ame damnée of every one about my court{em}the scape-goat, who is to carry away all their iniquities. 1830 C. C. F. GREVILLE Mem. (1874) II. xiii. 96 He [sc. Sefton] is the âme damnée of Lord Grey, and defends everything of course. 1879 M. E. BRADDON Vixen III. vii. 185 Their âmes damnées, the men who hold their hods and mix their mortar. 1917 ASQUITH Let. 13 Nov. (1933) I. 46 We are having Col. House, the Head of the American ‘Mission’, to lunch; he is President Wilson's own particular âme damnée. 1938 S. BECKETT Murphy iv. 54 Neary..boarded the first train for Dublin, accompanied by his âme damnée and man-of-all work, Cooper.

I actually hope this is the word, because it would work so nicely with where I am in my story. lit_gal? Any input on the mystery prompt?

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you actually found something so close, I'm impressed. So, just you, the prompt is 'devotee'

[smwright.livejournal.com]

hahaha Dumb luck and good database access at work. lol

However... awesome real prompt!

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

You're no April fool, huh? The real prompt is DEVOTEE

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

authoressnebula found that, so I can't take the credit, I'm afraid

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

*Is glad she lives in another time zone and woke up when this was all settled*

Okay dokey

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

I thought it would frustrate people, but it seems like we got caught pretty quick.

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Well...you're just damn evil. But we knew that. ^^

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Oh, this one was authoressnebula's fault... so call her evil ;)

[dangerous-47.livejournal.com]

I would have freaked out, if I had come earlier. lol.

Great real prompt. I've been tricked like three times already. *sigh*

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then you would have read the comments where other's figured out it was an April fool's joke, and you would have been fine.

[dangerous-47.livejournal.com]

lol. Probably, or I would have just gone into meltdown without reading the comments and freak out. lol.

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, blame ME! LOL ~_^

~Nebula

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

I think we're both in there. But I thought it would frustrate people, and instead they so totally caught us.

[salustra.livejournal.com]

I know I've been gone like, months. Still okay if I join back in?