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Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Thursday, October 20, 2005
I Play Ultimate Scrabble.
I've never held with the idea that Scrabble is reducible to a red bound dictionary, rote memorization and the reduction of words to character strings. There's a huge Pakistani contingent that's cleaning up in worldwide Scrabble tournaments right now, because they don't even have to know the meanings of the words they set down.
Scrabble players should know what their words mean. They should know what the language means-- and how it bends. Language is a plastic thing and confining it to a static set of letter strings-- it just seems to take the point away, to me.
Here (with thanks to Phil Kahn) is a game I played at Ubercon with Phil and Erica Henderson. Some of the creative words are mine, some are Phil's, at least one is Erica's (at my urging)-- but as far as I'm concerned, none are too sketchy to be disallowed. This is how the game SHOULD BE PLAYED.
Scrabble players should know what their words mean. They should know what the language means-- and how it bends. Language is a plastic thing and confining it to a static set of letter strings-- it just seems to take the point away, to me.
Here (with thanks to Phil Kahn) is a game I played at Ubercon with Phil and Erica Henderson. Some of the creative words are mine, some are Phil's, at least one is Erica's (at my urging)-- but as far as I'm concerned, none are too sketchy to be disallowed. This is how the game SHOULD BE PLAYED.
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Saying that I played with Erica and T is elevating me to way too high a status. The fact is, I was stone-cold pwn'd. I left before the end, because I found no point in recieving any further abuse.
I'm one of those players who LOVES being able to stick an "S" on the end of a word. Like I just screwed someone out of a compound word.
Like a champion of bastardidness
Like a champion of bastardidness
Heehee, yeah, "chiding."
Phil sells himself short. I got some lucky letters, is all. Erica came back hard after he was gone and (heheh) almost won.
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Phil sells himself short. I got some lucky letters, is all. Erica came back hard after he was gone and (heheh) almost won.
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