OT- Word of the day.

[Alneyan]

We have the same word in French (with a spelling variation, but that is to be expected), so this word likely comes from a foreign language, and hence isn't present in all English dictionaries, or something along these lines. And French has probably borrowed it from somewhere else as well (from what I can tell, "fenestra" is the latin for "window").

But this wasn't quite exactly a thread for etymology, and so I will stop digressing. I shall now leave the literati to debate about these strange words. (Literati has a nice ring to it, but I cannot think of something better than this one to bring to the thread)

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Slynky:
Scrabble player?! Kewl! Can't find anyone who can handle me in my circle of friends. Be nice if there was an Online place to play Scrabble and have some fun!

There is. Right here. It is Yahoo Literati. It is scrabble just without the scrabble name. My mom used to play all the time. It is alot of fun.

[Randallw]

Yes I find if you know a bit of latin you have a vague idea of what romance words are. a large proportion of english is stolen from french (albeit a thousand years ago) almost the rest is germanic (which I mostly know from military study) and the rest are words the empire stole from anyone they conquered.

edit: just realised I am doing what Alneyan warned of, turning this into a etymological discussion.

[ July 15, 2004, 14:38: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Scrabble player?! Kewl! Can't find anyone who can handle me in my circle of friends. Be nice if there was an Online place to play Scrabble and have some fun!

There is. Right here. It is Yahoo Literati. It is scrabble just without the scrabble name. My mom used to play all the time. It is alot of fun.

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More correctly, it's similar to Scrabble (having taken a look). The values for the letters are different (a 'Q', for example, is worth 5 points instead of 10) and the board is laid out differently. I wonder how challenges really work out on line (I played Hearts for a while till I learned people loaded card-counting cheats programs in a secondary window). And, of course, a timer would be nice (I didn't verify the existance of one in the Literati game).

But in a world where the makers of Scrabble have chosen NOT to give out rights to the game Online, I guess one does what one can to fill the void.

Thanks, Ragnarok .

[spoon]

I'm pretty sure you can play scrabble Online... do a google search, looks like there are more than a few places...

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Slynky:
More correctly, it's similar to Scrabble (having taken a look).

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And, of course, a timer would be nice (I didn't verify the existance of one in the Literati game).

Thanks, Ragnarok.

I didn't compare the two closely as far as layout and points of letters.

And if I recall correctly the timer does exsist on there and you can set it to anything you want. It is optional, however. It does come in handy as some players will take forever to play their word.

You are most welcome.

Edit: You also mention challenges. I forget exactly but I think you just press the challenge button if you don't think the word is correct and the system will varify it. The word database is taken from Dictionary.com. Although I have seen it mess up a few times and add words it should not allow, proper names and such.

[ July 15, 2004, 16:25: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Slynky]

Rags, I was commenting more on how challenging a word could be a possible weak spot in the game with people logged into dictionary.com typing in the word before they clicked the challenge button (or something similar). After finding out how people had card-counting routines running beside their Hearts game...well...I quit playing.

[Alneyan]

If you did want to cheat, who is to prevent you from using a program finding words for you? The computer Version of Scrabble comes with such helps, so you could probably use it in the Online Version (if you have nothing better to do).

Of course, it mostly applies to playing with random people on the net; I guess that we can trust one another on this forum for example.

Slightly less on topic, add ancient Greek to your list Randallw and I think you have all the roots of English words. While they aren't too many actual Greek words that I can think of ("phenomenon" and its plural form "phenomena" would be one, like "psyche" and a few other not so common words), Greek words are commonly used to make compound nouns (such as, say, "biology", the study of life). But it isn't so particular to English alone, and I am digressing even more.

[Iansidious]

New day new word!

Todays Word:

ihram ("ee raam" with long a)

1. white robe worn by Mecca pilgrims: a white cotton robe worn by men when they are pilgrims to Mecca, formed from pieces of cloth wound around the waist and over the shoulder
2. holy state of pilgrim wearing ihram: the state of holiness conferred or symbolized by the wearing of the ihram

Just for David . "David, looks so natty in his new ihram." Also, I love discombobulate. I will have to use sometime.

[ July 15, 2004, 21:31: Message edited by: Iansidious ]

[Intimidator]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by Intimidator:
Why is that AT.

YOu damn europeans are so damn competative. You know why...... (Laughing) Mr. Game Master.

(Seriously, the game was great, everything is going well despite your warp point openers, and the loss of my fleet. I had expected to loose some, but not all, but that is how it works out sometimes.)

Just a bad day for getting bad news. Thats all.

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You forgot to say that you loose ALL 60 of them, and I lost only 7 (with an fleet as large as yours)

So bottom line : I'VE GOT BETTER SHIPS