@pangloss said in Black Cross?:

@roymccoy You have to remember that developers are paid to do things. They cannot, by definition of their jobs, leave well enough alone. If everything were fine in their view they would go home and they'd be out of a job so they always have to continually tweak and "improve" things. It's frigging annoying sometimes and this is an example of it. In no other industry of which I'm aware, does this happen. The motto, "If it ain't broke don't fix it," is anathema to them.

There's truth in what you say, despite a bit of exaggeration. I'm not sure, however, that the Lexulous developers are doing anything, except a very few rare and nonsensical things such as replacing the star (itself unattractive compared to the earlier one) with a plus sign. The arrows still aren't fixed, etc.

@anexparrot said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

I'm no linguist, but I would bet English has borrowed many words from other languages and left the accent marks behind.
Déjà vu?

You don't need to be a linguist to know that. It doesn't justify wholesale abandonment in every case, however. Many accents are properly retained, and these should include the tilde in Spanish ñ. See e.g. http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Senor. I'm suppose MW is being "descriptive" in response to people's being too lazy or illiterate to type the ñ on their phones.

@mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

... It has the tilde in mañana but NOT the one in señor ie it accepts senor but not mañana! Go figure.

I figure MW screwed up (on SENOR, not MAÑANA).

@rikki-bates said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

@roymccoy Must have been the word nortenas (one 'n' not two), which would be the plural form of nortena (definition: an inhabitant or native of northern Mexico). It's legit.

You agree as to this likelihood, then. I don't approve of this inclusion, as ñ is a different letter in Spanish and I don't think Lexulous should allow e.g. senor or manana either. But it does, and if a word's accepted that's what counts in the game.

@tammy-allen-hartsfield said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

My opponent played the word NORTENNAS, which the Lexulous dictionary says is invalid. He got 79 points and I’m not happy. How can this be corrected?

Are you sure he didn't play NORTENAS, which is accepted? I suspect this is what may have happened. If not, a screenshot would be helpful in determining that the error actually did occur and in what context.

@betterlate1-0
It is more probable I muted you because you're annoying, and that is definitely the reason I am doing so now. You can speak all the truth you want – go right ahead. Bye.

@betterlate1-0
I don't remember why I unblocked you, but no matter.

I don't care what it's called, it's crude and ugly when compared to the previous gold star. The most significant thing about this in my book is that the developers either aren't in this forum at all, or they're too lazy or don't have the guts to deal directly with the players and their desires and problems. Or the developers are just not interested, or they expect to be paid for every moment of their engagement and that's not in their contract. The annoyingly boilerplate non-responses of sakamvari are not adequate or satisfying. WHO PUT THE UGLY CROSS OR PLUS SIGN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOARD, AND WHY? Let's hear from this person, why don't we.

@dan said in DIJON Not permitted in SOWPODS:

The wine should still be capitalized as Champagne.

That's nonsense. If you can provide one source that supports that, I can provide a thousand that don't.

@pangloss
Agreed. It's bad. I don't know if it's poor taste, or negligence, or incompetence, or what. I also don't know if the developer or developers have seen your comment. They've shown little or no sign of paying attention even if they do happen to read the forum posts, and I've seen no evidence of that.

I'm sorry no one has answered your question, @Pangloss. If I knew I would tell you, and if I worked for Lexulous I would find the answer. The black plus sign does indeed seem to be a pointless change, and ugly. The black or gray star (I forget which) was bad enough. If somebody wanted to change it they should have reverted it to the gold star of the older versions.

@amy-hall
I never installed the game on my laptop, I play on the website. I did install the app on my phone (for some silly reason having to do with this forum), so I can check on that... but not now because it's my turn.

@amy-hall
Hmm, odd. I don't see it in any of my three (Mac) browsers: Opera, Chrome or Safari. But I just updated the system from 10.12 Sierra to 10.14 Mojave, so I suppose it's because of that somehow.

Greetings, Lexulous Forum. I haven't been here in a while, and having just now looked over the "Getting rid of cheats" thread, I wonder how I have managed to do without you all. In any event I was thinking of nudging my regular opponent, who hasn't played a word in a while; but "Nudge" wasn't there anymore, just "View" when I hover the mouse over it. Screenshot attached – as you can see, there's no nudge button. Anybody know anything about this? It's not important since I can just email my opponent if I really want to see if she's still alive – but I'm curious as to why the button has been removed.

@dan said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

I thought GAMEPLAN was a single word these days. I was wrong.

I was going to say you were right and that it could be – citing Google, which I expected to deliver tons of one-word GAMEPLANs. It did – but nearly all of the first hundred of them were proper nouns, so it looks like you were basically wrong after all.

@sillypsybin said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

PATTY-PHYSICAL is hyphenated. I looked it up on Wiki.

I've requested the unhyphenated variant at dictionaryblog.cambridge.org.

@mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

'Tis a secret! The thread you quote comes to no definite conclusion - merely started another round of speculation

I've seen similar explanations elsewhere. The "US" dictionary is one and the "UK" is another. Since the dictionary is in the game I don't see any compelling reason to be concerned with the particular editions.

@mistertoad
I had no expectations.

@mistertoad said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

PATTYCAKE appears on various websites but dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster only list it as PATTY-CAKE i.e. a combination of two separate words.

I could care less. I was only goofing on sillypsybin's PATAPHYSICAL.

@betterlate1-0 said in Recommend addition/removal of words:

@roymccoy sorry to tell you pattycake is really patty-cake . Hyphenated words are not used.

Thank you ever so much for informing me in this regard.