First of all I agree with Tiger-- the word list is made by some committee somewhere that has NO affiliation with Lex.
Secondly before complaining you guys might want to look in more dictionaries!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wakanda
Noun: a supernatural force similar to mana believed by the Sioux to pervade animate and inanimate objects in varying degrees sometimes giving them extraordinary powers and usually assumed to be the cause of extraordinary happenings
@jrp32 Interesting! Wikipedia says "it is dialect to the eye, rather than to the ear."
Anybody else want them to get new avatars?
I made a poll:
Link to poll on quiz-maker.com
Is it bad form to reply to myself? LOL
I was thinking about this, and it turns out that the reason my relative couldn't see my game posted was because of my formula. I didn't realize it works that way now.
@betterlate1-0 said in Black Cross?:
@roymccoy I am annoying and you just proved why. You do not like the truth or facts. You find it fine that are rude and crude and apparently bully others to get your way. I point it out you censor me. Have a good day
Better, I don't really know Roy, but he doesn't seem like a bully to me.
And you'll probably take this the wrong way, but you would be doing yourself a favor if you thought about and edited your sentences before posting. Like "You find it fine that are rude and crude" -- what was that supposed to mean?
As for the plus sign in the middle of the board, do you people sit and stare at it? Star or plus sign? No big deal to me!
This is a minor thing, but I don't understand why a logged-in session times out so quickly? Just now I was playing on the main website, and clicked to open 'my stats' in a new window, and had to log-in again, even though I was still active in the main lex window!
@mapmakere said in Unusual / interesting words found from lex:
@anexparrot 'evite' is a go, but not 'evote'. UK dictionary. On checking tho, I see the former does not mean an invitation rec'd by email.
Yes, I've seen evite. Eviting is good in both UK and US as is evited!
Two unrelated requests that probably have already been asked for:
Please, can we have a formula in settings for minimum/maximum times we want to play? (Recently I forgot to look at an incoming match, and it turned out it was for a fast game, which I didn't want to play.)
It seems like censoring only has an effect on lobby/chatting. I'm sure a lot of us want it to also block people from joining our games!
Thank you.
What about the people who like glacially slow conversations? One sentence every 11 months?
@dan-mitchell
Perhaps they have fixed censoring.
I agree with you that a very different visual look for the dialog boxes for 'match' vs. 'join' would be very nice.
Don't you wonder if some people match randomly with fast games in hopes of an easy win?
@mapmakere said in Unusual / interesting words found from lex:
@anexparrot 'evite' is a go, but not 'evote'. UK dictionary. On checking tho, I see the former does not mean an invitation rec'd by email.
Yes, I've seen evite. Eviting is good in both UK and US as is evited!
@dan said in Unusual / interesting words found from lex:
@anexparrot This one's kinda silly and not particularly interesting. Just a funny inconsistency I guess.
The other day I was checking if this was valid. Somewhat surprisingly, it's not:
For a laugh, I then went on to check this one. Sure enough, it's valid:
I LOL'ed-- don't think i've ever seen butthead played!
I was just examining my last game and the bot said we missed:
"earthpea" - I've never heard this, but apparently it's an 'American hogpeanut'
"veejay" - I didn't realize this was valid. Isn't it kinda funny that veejays were probably only common from the 1980s until the late 90s?
Anybody else have interesting lex words to share?
@dan said in Chat issues:
@betterlate1-0 said in Chat issues:
It would be really nice if we could censor in the forum too.
Think I've mentioned this before, but that is possible.
Click their picture or username to get to their profile:
Click the three dots, then 'block user':
Thanks, Dan. I had just tried to block somebody and there wasn't that option, but I had forgotten I was not logged into the forum!
@dan I think the obvious answer is that it's fairly easy for the site to get a wordlist for the games but expensive to get a real, good dictionary with definitions. I googled one of lex's weird definitions once and it matched some mediocre (presumably free) dictionary, I forget the name.
Since there is no category that I see for commentary I guess this category will do as well as any. I suppose that many of the people who play word games are logophiles like myself. So, this is for those of you using V2 and getting the definitions of accepted words as a trailer to your screen of the game you are on. When, instead of a definition you just get a notice of "- This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries." or similar wording do you have a specific thought on that, before you look for the word in an aggregate of dictionaries? What is your thought?
I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for?
The words that often really amuse me are the ones the analysis tool says I or my opp missed! For instance, the other day it said we missed "zaptieh!" I'm pretty sure I've never seen that word before. (It's a Turkish policeman.)
@dan said in Poor analysis:
@anexparrot An alternative analysis tool seems to do a better job:
Thanks, Dan. Yes that tool looks much better. Why does your tool have values with decimals?
I was using the tool to analyze my last game, and the silly thing could really use some tuning:
I bingoed with 'conners' for 90, but the tool said the best play was 'nacreous' for 72...
It also sometimes misses easy bingos!
It would be nice if as you step through a game the score displayed reflects that point in the game.
Thank you.
@fiona-smith The dictionaries on here are full of obscure words and a few errors. You might have a look in the Collins dictionary. For instance, about "jedi," it says:
"jedi in British English
NOUN
a person who claims to live according to a philosophy based on that of the fictional Jedi, a caste of wizards in the Star Wars series of films by George Lucas, US film director"
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/jedi
(I'm amused that it says jedi was popular in the 1700s!)
Thanks everybody. Oops, I should have made the title clearer:
She can't move tiles in her rack. (I assume she can't drag them around in the rack.)
I'll update here after I talk to her.
