Comments | deillort: Bit by common words

deillort

Bit by common words

Aug 11, 2007 15:59

The non-native English speaker in me reared its ugly head again last club session. In my second game I challenged TEETHES, which I later learned is how you spell the word when a child is cutting teeth. Ironically, the same game I played the not too common TENTAGES. Sadly, my opponent held it but did not challenge for he needed the S to play a ( Read more... )

scoring, scrabble, phonies, bingos, club

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graperonto August 14 2007, 14:32:07 UTC

Well... you'd wipe the floor with any of us if we played in Tagalog, I suppose :-)

Some good finds anyway. Don't know that I would have found TENTAGES with a blank.

I *did* manage one win against saganist on line this past weekend. In 2006, I only won FIVE GAMES the whole year against him. I'm already triple that this year.

deillort August 14 2007, 15:40:21 UTC

It always make me smile when people correctly identify my race and the language that I speak :)

Yup, that Mike Thelen sure is hard to beat. On our game last week (first board), he made a great come back after he challenged off duoma* which I confused with DUOMO and DUOMI (it should have been spelled DOUMA).

graperonto August 14 2007, 17:54:45 UTC

I actually live in a commercial building... there are seven stores on the main floor, and 14 apartments upstairs overhead the businesses... and two BASEMENT apartments.

I live in a basement apartment... and the store upstairs from me is called DIVISORIA... a Filipino grocery store. There are a number of Filipino families in my neighbourhood here in Toronto.

So there's my secret. Even before Mr. Thelen confirmed it for me, I knew by your face that you were Filipino.

My Tagalog is limited to two phrases... now my SPELLING is going to be WAY OFF... please don't laugh! One is a question, and the other is the answer to that question...

Kamusta kayo?

Mabutay

deillort August 14 2007, 19:32:03 UTC

Wow, that Divisoria tidbit is really interesting. It's actually the name of a famous market in the Philippines. It's famous for the great bargains you can get there, *but* you must know how to haggle.

No, I didn't laugh at your Tagalog. The first one is an acceptable spelling. The second one is actually spelled Mabuti (the last syllable is pronounced like the ti in tidbit but without pronouncing the d).