tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 01 17:31:22 1994
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Re: Scrabble anyone?
On Sun, 31 Jul 1994, William H. Martin wrote:
> According to David E G Sturm:
> > On Sun, 31 Jul 1994, David E G Sturm wrote:
> > > 2. Branching will be very difficult with unmodified Klingon word length
> > > barely above 3. I'm not exactly sure how one would get around this.
> > Neither am I, since I meant to write:
> > "*average* unmodified Klingon word length"
> moHaqmeyna'majvam mojaqmeyna'majvam je
> Dalo'qangchoHlaHbejtaHneSchugh, vaj bISovchoHba'.
Cute, but notice I said *unmodified*. The game of Scrabble becomes
extremely challenging in a language that has a ubiquitous CVC pattern.
Try playing it in Chinese (Pinyin, of course) or Vietnamese (vowel marks
are omitted). Certainly long combinations exists in those languages too,
but the *odds* of having exactly the right tiles are low enough to make
it a small problem. Let's presume we start a game of Klingon Scrabble,
and see how it goes.... (Shall we call it pIqaD'a'mey zha?)
Using my pseudorandom generator, here are your tiles charghwI':
[ch] [a] ['] ['] [m] [e] [D]
We can start with standard rules.... Your move...... :-)
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