[Dixonary] Round 2213: DRIX

[Paul Keating]

The word for round 2213 is

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* D R I X *
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Capitalization is not significant.

Please concoct a fake definition for this word that you
think your fellow players will find plausible, or
entertaining, or both.

Newcomers to the game are always welcome: your task is to
induce the other players to vote for your fake definition
rather than the real one. You will find the full rules at
http://rules.dixonary.net but they can be summarized thus:
1. Don't look the word up.
2. Make up a fake definition and email it to me.
3. Check back here after the deadline.

The deadline for submissions is on Tuesday 14 June 2011 at

15:00 PDT
16:00 MDT
17:00 CDT
18:00 EDT
22:00 UTC
23:00 BST
23:59 CEST for me

and on Wednesday 15 June 2011 at

08:00 EST in Melbourne.

You can use the email address drix (AT) dixonary (DOT) net to submit definitions.
This is not a requirement: other email addresses you have for me will
also work.

Please put "2213" or "DRIX" in the subject line. This makes incoming
game messages easier to manage, and makes checking for emails stuck in
spam filters less unpleasant.

[Paul Keating]

The round number should of course be 2214.

P

[—Keith Hale—]

Yeah, i don't do WwF, but Scrabble (in person) as well as both Lexulous and
Wordscraper on Facebook are a wealth of words! I'm fair sure all 4 games
use the same words lists (American and Global English).

The book "Word Freak" by sports journalist Stefan Fatsis is quite an
entertaining and informative, geeky read!
http://www.amazon.com/Word-Freak-Heartbreak-Competitive-ScrabblePlayers/dp/0142002267

One fascinating nugget: some of the best players of competitive (English
language) Scrabble in the world are non-speakers of English, from various
parts of Asia. They learn the lists purely by rote, and Fatsis (or was it
me?) hypothesised that this frees them from distractions of what the words
mean, as well as no shyness to play "impolite" words.

I don't recommend to book for non-word-geeks, although they might like it
too. As a self-professed "Verbivore" - i ate it right up. (I even
independently coined "Verbivore" ... years before an internet search showed
that someone else might have coined it around the same time.)
—Keith—



On 13 June 2011 10:30, Daniel Widdis <widdis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> I'm learning all sorts of new words to use in "Words with Friends."
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