Can't find the old WU thread, so I'll just make a new one

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:55 pm

it won't get any prizes but i was pleased enough with DICKHEAD to spend 30 seconds to take a picture.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:05 am

Where is it?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:31 am

here ya go

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:28 pm

when i crap out a game i tend to press 'bonus word' at the end. normally it gives BRR, BRRR

or CWM. today i learnt a new word

VLY

ffs.

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:46 pm

Tis my favourite 3 letter word, just surpassing VAV. Heh. It has a plural form too, VLIES.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:12 pm

How long before FFS makes it in?

http://scrabulouscheats.com/sowpodsthreeletterwords

There's some beauties in there. I can't believe it took them so long to introduce much-needed abbreviations for PAVLOVA and SAVELOY ...

fotherz · Post by **fotherz** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:19 am

Cardinal Sin wrote:There's some beauties in there. I can't believe it took them so long to introduce much-needed abbreviations for PAVLOVA and SAVELOY ...

ZA is also allowed, as an abbreviation for pizza. Can't say I've ever heard that, in all my years of pizza-munching.

If you've ever wanted to be a top Scrabbler, memorise that list. And then the 4s. And the 5s, 6s, 7s and 8s. And you're there.

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:01 pm

Scrabble relies on word knowledge - who would have thunk it, eh?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:51 pm

i was (within the age group) quite good at scrabble when i was eight. in the tournament semi, some remedial kid played CIVE thinking he'd played SIEVE, i challenged and it was allowed: probably an 'african shrub' or 'some other improbable way of killing C and V'. i wept like a gay baby all the way home; at the time i cared about it.

meh. (MEH soon).

we all have moments of weak blindness. but i do still care about spelling; if a word cannot be defined and used in a proper context, it is useless. by definition.

i've said it before and no doubt i'll say it again: scrabble is not a word game, it is all about numbers. WS is getting that way with horrible things like VAV, OCH, VLY etc. and at the other end, extensions of mass nouns/uncountables: ~NESSES, ~ITIES (no verb: boo!)
if you can't use a word in script or conversation it is not a word. but something like INCONSEQUENTIALITIES would be allowed in most word games because it is considered to be good. art vs science again.

but WU is pure and beautiful.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:45 pm

Debating

Istenem wrote:INCONSEQUENTIALITIES

is what this Forum is all about.

Merry Christmas one and all!

roberto la vigna · Post by **roberto la vigna** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:54 pm

Istenem wrote:i've said it before and no doubt i'll say it again: scrabble is not a word game, it is all about numbers.

I think that Scrabble would be better if the words were replaced by random strings of symbols.

The best thing that you could do Scrabble-wise would be to spend a furious year memorising the rest of the words, win a big tournament and give everyone the bird. Would exorcise the demons in a satisfactory fashion.

I only got into word games because I found the people on Countdown irritating and wanted to crush them out of spite. Negative emotions can make great motivators.

You also will probably end up going native.

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Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:31 pm

Cardinal Sin wrote:I can't believe it took them so long to introduce much-needed abbreviations for PAVLOVA and SAVELOY ...

Of course, no sooner do I say that than a god-awful ad springs up on the telly for recording freeview with Alan Carr where he talks about a saveloy sausage then says "Imagine getting stood up by a sav".

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:57 pm

sickening Your Eminence, but not as bad as what i'm just about to do on facebook

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:12 pm

You arsehole.

I'm sure my workmates will think I'm a right weirdo now (even more so than normal).

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:21 pm

had THEODICY this evening which was very pleasing: a word which i didn't know i knew. UNCONTESTED in the same game means it didn't get to the scoreboard but there was a certain pleasure nonetheless.