words are dumb, and they arent

[xpmorgan]

part of why my scrabble game has suffered this year is that i stopped studying when the battery in my laptop kicked the bucket. i used to study 100 Words a Day on my 1+ hour commute each way to work, learn 100 7s or 8s or 5s or whatever, go over them again on the way home, move onto the next set the following morning. its both an effort to improve

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[ftangredi]

Reading this made me very, very happy. I've struggled with writer's block, and I also know the exhilaration when the urge suddenly roars back to life. Good luck!

[xpmorgan]

its a good feeling, yes. i like what i've been doing with this.

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[ar_raqis]

"and all of these words i've learned over the years, in fact, are very helpful in this new endeavor. unlike some people, who view the words as just a string of letters that form acceptable plays, i love language and have always viewed the game as a way to increase my vocabulary. if i learn a cool word, i want to know what it means. damn, there are a lot of great verbs in English, verbs we never think to use, verbs that are WAY more expressive than 'to be' and 'to have.' as i scribble and scrawl, i find that studying for scrabble helped me more, over time, than i would have imagined was possible

[xpmorgan]

Quote away. you may Quote when ready.

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[j_is_worth8]

A new motto: "SCRIBBLE not SCRABBLE"

[xpmorgan]

the better i feel away from the board, the better i feel at the board. simple as that.

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[bbstenniz]

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I'm still giving you shit if you don't go to summer Reno.

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Since admittedly I do get bogged down in the not learning what words mean, it is really nice that so many of these words come up in school, books, life. Then I do go look them up. I mean, now I know KWASHIRKOR :). And all those weird-plural brain parts.

[nagekinoki]

KWASHIORKOR :P . Did you learn about marasmus too?

It is interesting to see how many of them do pop up. I learned about estoppel through school, too.

[nagekinoki]

Oh, and kwashiorkor has the best roots. In Ghanaian, it means "the evil spirit that inhabits the first child upon the birth of the second".

[bbstenniz]

we did! Zames knows all yet again!

Oh, I know how it is spelled, I typoed.