tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 01 13:27:30 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble
- From: "Michael Roney, Jr. PKT" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:27:11 -0500
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From Wikipedia: <br><br><br>In an English-language set the game contains 100 tiles, 98 of which are marked with a letter and a point value ranging from 1 to 10. The number of points of each lettered tile is based on the letter's frequency in standard English writing; commonly used letters such as E or O are worth one point, while less common letters score higher, with Q and Z each worth 10 points.<br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">~Michael Roney, Jr.<br>Professional Klingon translator<br>webOS developer<br><br>Sent from my HP TouchPad</div></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">On Jan 1, 2013 4:21 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: <br></span>
<div><font size="2"><span><span>> I don't know which texts were used to get the letter frequencies, but</span><br>
<span>> I'm wondering if using the larger volume of texts that we have now a</span><br>
<span> > days would change them any...</span><br>
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<span>At the risk of showcasing my ignorance with regards to Scrabble:</span><br>
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<span>Does one actually need a corpus to decide character values for Scrabble? I imagine that a lexicon along with the rules for appending affixes would suffice, as the deciding factor is what words can be formed, rather than what
words are most commonly used (or do rare/difficult words weigh more heavily in that calculation?).</span><br>
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<div id="divRpF423101"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> David Holt [[email protected]]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 01, 2013 22:14<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:<br>
> > I got it from DloraH, who got it from janSIy, who I believe originated it.<br>
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I didn't originate it, but I may have been the first one to bring a converted set to the qep'a'. I got the frequencies and values off this very list and I no longer remember who did the calculations or came up with the values. It was probably 15 years ago.
The game is fun, but the scores are somewhat artificial since the point values were based on rarity of English letters and so it's weird to have common letters like <tlh> be worth so many points. I think any new calculations should be based on Qov's <nuq
bop bom>, since that is a large piece of original tlhIngan Hol writing.<br>
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janSIy<br>
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