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Just like normal scrabble but with a points multiplier for rare etymology - e.g. x1 for AngloSaxon or Latin, x1.5 for Arabic, Indian, Sanskrit, etc., x2 for Norwegian, Finnish, Japanese, etc.
aa
http://en.wikipedia....CA.BBA.CA.BB.C4.81
is plenty forrin [calum, Nov 21 2011]
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Presumably this is to allow you to get more points for popular linkword/vowelwaste "aa"? |
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Depends what the etymology of "aa" is.
(...later, after [calum]'s linkage...) - ooh, Hawaiian - very good. |
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Finnish should be x3, given that it's in such an
isolated language group. |
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Also, without wishing to jeer, I've got a hunch that
there's a whole mound of words whose etymology is
a quandary (like "jeer", "hunch", "mound" and
"quandary", for example). |
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Given the fact that there are only two or three major primitive language groupings, and a few scattered ones, such as Euskara, if you go far enough you really don't have that many real different etymologies. |
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(Anglo saxon, latin, hindi, Norwegian, sanskrit are all proto-indo-european) |
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(yes but there are some rare words we get from Norwegian and nowhere else, such as "quisling") |
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sp. wordfeud. Quickly hides behind [21Quest]. |
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[Hippo] Except names have etymologies too. Quisling comes from somewhere. Apparently silhouette is derived from a Basque name, which makes the root Euskara even if it did enter the language in France. |
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Any points for picking a specific year, such as
1912? 1912 was particularly rich for words that
have endured in common usage, yielding words
such as:
autis/m/tic
sabotage
ambivalent
schizophrenia
vitamin
moron
electronically
& nosedive |
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How many points for Xhosa's click language? |
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So if we do go at it... to go on to do it is ok by me,
do we do it on an ox or on an ax? |
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Are Etruscan words allowed? There's a bunch of those what need sweeping off. |
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Sort of off topic: I enjoyed [infidel]'s listing of words introduced in 1912; Does anyone know the reason behind the etymology of the word "sabotage"? Dutch sabot shoes and sabot sailboats would seem to have little to do with causing things or processes to fail by intention. Enquiring mind wishes to know. |
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Ah, clunky workmanship...I suspect that is why so many professional halfbakers wear a variation of clogs in the kitchen with varying results. Thank you for the citation, [21Q]. |
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I believe the French word sabot was used for the
fishplates used on the French rail system. Rail
workers removed the fishplates to render rail lines
unsafe during the French general strike of 1912...
hence "saboteurs" and "sabotage". |
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I think a problem here might be that you have to look up the etymology of every single word... I mean can anyone say off the top of their head where 'lamp' came from? |
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I love it. I'm sitting down right now to design my own set of
rules. Maybe I can finally beat T.G.F.J. at Scrabble. (I
know, I know, what kind of writer can't beat his own wife
at a word game?) |
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Scrabble isn't a word game, not really, because it disincentivises the placing of awesome words in favour of chasing points. |
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This would lead to the sort of arguments that are
settled with a dictionary. Therefore [+]. Lends
itself to variants, to e.g. Scrabble with only words of
Germanic origin, Uncleftish Beholding-wise. |
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//disincentivises// Not an awesome word. But gets
more points than "discourages." |
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It's a horrible clumsy artifical and redundant word but it is, to my ears, awesome - a stumbling collapsing run-on of sibilances. |
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