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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Redball:
The picture on my credit card, plus an absent or illegible signature on the back, means I don't also get asked for a driver license.
Barmymoo:
Eek. Just sent an email to a college alumna (she's an Associate, I think, which means she's specifically interested in supporting current students - a good sign!) asking if she can help me with my dissertation. I'm hoping she might be an in for similar visits to the ones I made this summer in the US. I always hate asking strangers for favours, it was pretty nerve-wracking hitting send. But I did it! I saw a reference to someone who looked like they might be interesting and useful and I contacted them! This is quite a big deal to me.
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: henri bemis on 26 Jan 2013, 00:08 ---I'm quickly becoming addicted to facebook scrabbleish games, but I hate people who cheat, and you can always tell. And they do it all the fucking time. I keep wanting to grab people by the collar and yell 'OH, THAT'S YOUR WORD? DEFINE THAT FOR ME, MOTHERFUCKER!'
If you have to use an app to get your words, you're not playing pseudoscabble, you're just trolling the dictionary.
--- End quote ---
While there certanialy are people using other apps to cheat, Scrabble is not a vocabulary game and many players know only that a word is legal, and not what it means. Similarly, knowing which words are not legal, even though you think they should be ("tase" is not a legal word, even though it has been adopted (from the proper noun Taser) for some years now to be the verb for shocking someone with a stun gun. The OED recognizes it as a word for goodness sake!!)
Zingoleb:
I played down 'zen' on a triple word once in Scrabble; turns out it's not even in the Scrabble dictionary! I lost that game pretty harshly.
Welu:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 26 Jan 2013, 12:39 ---
--- Quote from: henri bemis on 26 Jan 2013, 00:08 ---I'm quickly becoming addicted to facebook scrabbleish games, but I hate people who cheat, and you can always tell. And they do it all the fucking time. I keep wanting to grab people by the collar and yell 'OH, THAT'S YOUR WORD? DEFINE THAT FOR ME, MOTHERFUCKER!'
If you have to use an app to get your words, you're not playing pseudoscabble, you're just trolling the dictionary.
--- End quote ---
While there certanialy are people using other apps to cheat, Scrabble is not a vocabulary game and many players know only that a word is legal, and not what it means. Similarly, knowing which words are not legal, even though you think they should be ("tase" is not a legal word, even though it has been adopted (from the proper noun Taser) for some years now to be the verb for shocking someone with a stun gun. The OED recognizes it as a word for goodness sake!!)
--- End quote ---
From little bits I've read, in professional competitive Scrabble, it is considered bad form to ask a definition. Since everyone there has basically just learned of as many words as possible, the letters are what's important and not the meaning. Although in those situations there's a mediating verifier type person.
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