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He memorized the French scrabble dictionary, so I doubt it’s in any way useful. He doesn’t know the meaning of any of the terms.
by claudeganon 6y ago
He memorized the French scrabble dictionary, so I doubt it’s in any way useful. He doesn’t know the meaning of any of the terms.
- echelon 6y agoHis brain is now wired with the space of possible spellings and phonemes. That can't have a nonzero impact on learning. He might have a jump on pattern recognition for conjugation, for instance.
- LudwigNagasena 6y agoI don’t think it’s allowed to conjugate verbs in Scrabble.
- cdavid 6y agoI don't think that's true, though I am not a player (only played very casually as a kid w/ my grand parents): https://www.fisf.net/scrabble/decouverte-du-scrabble/r%C3%A8gles-du-jeu.html https://www.fisf.net/scrabble/decouverte-du-scrabble/r%C3%A8... (French, sorry) I don't know how usable French conjugates are in scrabble, though. Intuitively, it should help placing high score letters like z, which is otherwise uncommon in French.
- user5994461 6y agoConjugates are super easy to use. Every verb can generate 50 different words, mostly with subtle variations in ending -e -es -ez -ent / -ai -ais -ait -aient. Playing a verb immediately allows the opponent to play an extension on it and make more points than you. This is a total game changer. I honestly think scrabble in French is a different game as in English. I'd rather see an article explaining the rules of the championship and how French scrabble is alien to what people think of scrabble.
- minitoar 6y agoYou can definitely use conjugated verbs: "All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: words always capitalized, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone, words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe" https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/rules https://scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/rules
- LudwigNagasena 6y agoAh, ok, in Russia in scrabble-like games (Scrabble itself is not very popular) subjugation and declension usually aren’t allowed.
- 317070 6y agoSame in Dutch, I assume because of the possibility of just adding an "e" or a "t" to most words to score its points again.
- minitoar 6y agoNice I love these sort of language differences. In English of course you can add an "s" to many words to make them plural, and that is permitted in Scrabble.