Comments | shawnaree: Too Many Letters on my Rack.

shawnaree

Too Many Letters on my Rack.

Aug 28, 2007 00:43

In an attempt to avoid more homework, namely reading about developmental psychology (at least... I think that's the assignment I'm avoiding), I've been playing a lot of online scrabble at Scrabulous.com ( Read more... )

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Comments 14

equivocally_me August 28 2007, 05:08:22 UTC

It's so much better when classmates hold their own.

shawnaree August 28 2007, 05:14:49 UTC

I agree wholeheartedly.

*sigh* Perhaps I wouldn't have felt so weirded out by their acquiescence if they hadn't seemed so prepared to go over the materials. This is grad school, after all.

peaceofpie August 28 2007, 10:27:19 UTC

QI is an alternate spelling for CHI, like the Chinese word for life energy, as in "tai chi" or "chi gong".

ADZE I don't know off the top of my head, but dictionary.com tells me it's "An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood."

You are very good at Scrabble. You beat me regularly. And I am pretty good at Scrabble. Not tournament-good, but good enough that usually when I play with people I have to either purposely go easy on them or they end up not wanting to play with me anymore. :-/

shannaoneil August 28 2007, 15:23:25 UTC

I really like my scrabble dictionary though I do not use it during game play because it gives the spellings and brief definitions of the words. Then again I am a dork and I study my scrabble dictionary when I am bored. Huggles, play you later.

david_feuer September 1 2007, 03:14:08 UTC

The official Scrabble dictionary sucks because it doesn't have any words the editors consider offensive.

shannaoneil September 1 2007, 16:46:22 UTC

Most profane words are just alterations in usage from nonprofane words. I am honestly at a loss as to what words are profane in any of themselves....

anemptymind August 29 2007, 03:46:49 UTC

Yea, q'i is the correct way to spell "chi." For instance:

"Dude, you're harshin' up my q'i."

I find that male classmates tend to be more easy to debate.

shawnaree August 29 2007, 05:51:09 UTC

... "harshin' up my q'i? I don't even know what that means.

Also, I believe the correct way to spell chi/qi/ki is:

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oh crap, she took Chinese! anemptymind August 29 2007, 12:36:45 UTC

Actually, that word is pronounced "zhongyue," or something.

Definitely not q'i.

Re: oh crap, she took Chinese! shawnaree August 29 2007, 17:15:10 UTC

My point still stands. Which /was/ that there is no "correct" way to spell chi/q'i/qi/ki in English, because it's not an English word. It's a CHINESE word, therefore, the only correct way to spell it is in Chinese.

This is why we have words like tao/dao. It all depends on some random English-speaker's interpretation of a tonal language.

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shawnaree August 29 2007, 05:43:35 UTC

*winks* I /knew/ I knew you. *smooch* How's life?

ridermicah August 29 2007, 05:54:13 UTC

you little sneak!

life is pretty okay. i had been thinking about talking to you about what's been going on in my brain gender-wise, and then you called the other day and i was super excited but about to board a plane. :)

so we should definitely talk. i'm glad we ran into each other online!

shawnaree August 29 2007, 05:56:30 UTC

I am always willing to listen. You are amazing in so many ways. *hugs*