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Ad absurdum - at one point, the world Scrabble champion was a fellow who didn't actually speak English. That's not too surprising unless he played in English.
by omaranto 15y ago
Ad absurdum - at one point, the world Scrabble champion was a fellow who didn't actually speak English.
That's not too surprising unless he played in English. Scrabble has editions for many languages.
- dmd 15y agoHe did play in English, actually. That's what made it so ridiculous.
- Someone 15y agoThe guy being allied about is Panupol Sujjayakorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panupol_Sujjayakorn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panupol_Sujjayakorn). He is Thai. In Thailand, scrabble is used to learn English. Unlike with Chinese, it is not impossible to make a Thai scrabble, but I doubt there is one, given the size of its alphabet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet)
- zem 15y agoi've been to the king's cup tournament in bangkok a couple of times. there's a children's tournament run in parallel in the same venue, and it was a truly amazing sight to see thousands of kids squaring off across scrabble boards. i truly wish school scrabble would take off in india; as it is, this year we didn't even manage to find two kids to go for the world youth scrabble championship :(