Unique Words I've Learned

[2cute]

I spotted SUGGESTION on a board. It's so common I knew it'd be worth next to nothing ... then I saw -ized. Yup, that's right; I played SUGGESTIONIZED for 29 pts/2 records. That elicited an involuntary chortle when it was accepted. I thought, "Come on now. Is that a total WordTwist fabrication?!" It's in Collin's dictionary defined as "to treat or influence by the power of suggestion." Just shows to go (a spoonerism I'm fond of) you just never know...

Edit: I forgot til now to include my recent first time find of TRACTORATIONS for 24 pts. I tried it on a board w not much else available. I wondered if I had unwittingly performed scores of tractorations while tilling fields etc. in my 7 year forced career as a teen on the family farm. Might it be a term to glamorize the drudgery of going in circles for hours at a time? Not the case though; instead it's "archaic. : a technique of therapy first used about 1796 by Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Connecticut, consisting in the operation of drawing over an affected part the points of two small rods of different metals, and held to be helpful in local inflammation or pains (as of rheumatism)." I guess if that didn't work for you back then there was always the often used bleeding to cure you.

I'm so glad medicinal practices have improved! Except for taking Cocaine to improve 'hysteria' in women (which now seems absolutely ridiculous), pharmacology has much improved since the early 20th century.

[lalatan]

I spotted SUGGESTION on a board. It's so common I knew it'd be worth next to nothing ... then I saw -ized. Yup, that's right; I played SUGGESTIONIZED for 29 pts/2 records. That elicited an involuntary chortle when it was accepted. I thought, "Come on now. Is that a total WordTwist fabrication?!" It's in Collin's dictionary defined as "to treat or influence by the power of suggestion." Just shows to go (a spoonerism I'm fond of) you just never know...

Edit: I forgot til now to include my recent first time find of TRACTORATIONS for 24 pts. I tried it on a board w not much else available. I wondered if I had unwittingly performed scores of tractorations while tilling fields etc. in my 7 year forced career as a teen on the family farm. Might it be a term to glamorize the drudgery of going in circles for hours at a time? Not the case though; instead it's "archaic. : a technique of therapy first used about 1796 by Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Connecticut, consisting in the operation of drawing over an affected part the points of two small rods of different metals, and held to be helpful in local inflammation or pains (as of rheumatism)." I guess if that didn't work for you back then there was always the often used bleeding to cure you.

[bwt1213]

6x6 & 7x7 games? Does that mean the 4x4 or 5x5 games will be removed?

Ultahyper would be 2 words for me.

I was being too cute; I don't issue orders to the administrator. I sure would enjoy having a larger game board option, though. If one did come out, there'd be no reason to discontinue any existing game.
As far as two separate words, I remember very distinctly when I was young that "today" was spelled "to-day" and "tomorrow" was "to-morrow" and a lot of the words we now see run together were separate and distinct words. "Whenever" was always "when ever", for example. I expect the trend to agglutination will continue.

[2cute]

I left out "Ultrahyper" as a prefix, so now you have 43 letters. Stephen, stop all development on the 6x6 game. Go directly to the 7x7!

6x6 & 7x7 games? Does that mean the 4x4 or 5x5 games will be removed?

Ultahyper would be 2 words for me.

[bwt1213]

Love it! A 33 letter word! New horizons!

I left out "Ultrahyper" as a prefix, so now you have 43 letters. Stephen, stop all development on the 6x6 game. Go directly to the 7x7!

[mdyak]

No, your brain has supermegaunbrokenfulabilitinesses.

Love it! A 33 letter word! New horizons!

[bwt1213]

No, your brain has supermegaunbrokenfulabilitinesses.

mdyak, I will add on to, but not outdo, your persistentnesses....

I just found PARTICPANTLY, which is apparently an adverb and means "In a participant manner; so as to take part." (Yeah, right, I heard that word all through college, sure....)

So, maybe you are being inspired to more participantly persistentnesses. (Of course, in the real world, adverbs don't generally modify nouns, but we are in wordtwist.)

I think that persistentnesses is a noun., isn't it?

Did anyone else hear that funny clonk-clonk-thud sound just now? And is anyone smelling some smoke?

I think I just broke my brain.

[mdyak]

(I felt an urge to add -nesses to that but resisted.

You're inspiring me to be more persistentnesses!

[lalatan]

...Mostly, if lalatan has already played the board, it's not real likely that you're going to get more out of it than he got! Though it has happened maybe all of 3 or 4 times in the last 10 years. ...

For the first 9 months of this year, I set 8,619 best/longest word records and lost 474 of them, an attrition rate of 5.5%. Although I've worked hard to prevent such losses, my records are far from unassailable (I felt an urge to add -nesses to that but resisted. Old habits are hard to break.) I'm certain if I only played 26+ pt words that rate would drop significantly. But there are too many records to be had and interesting words to find worth <26 pts so I put up with it.

[mdyak]

I just have to ask: Was it possible to put a "ths" on the end of that monster? And Mdyak, I also had Latin in High School, but only two years. Then we moved and the new school didn't offer Latin. However, I remember the beginning of "Braveheart" where the priest is saying a bunch of things in Latin, and I understood every word of it -- even after all those years! And "Gladiator", too, though a lot of that was the kind of rough speech not taught in Latin classes, so I had to guess their meanings from surrounding words and context. I have to think they simplified that stuff, though, because a lot of us old-time nerds learned at least some Latin. So they tossed us a bone.

Nope, not possible to put ths on the end of it, especially as it's already 24 letters and that would make a very strange looking 27 letter board! Mostly, if lalatan has already played the board, it's not real likely that you're going to get more out of it than he got! Though it has happened maybe all of 3 or 4 times in the last 10 years.

Good on you for picking up Latin in Braveheart! I don't think I have that facility. Much better with words on a page.

[bwt1213]

Too funny! A couple of minutes after I wrote the above note to you, I landed on a game you had played and found Quinquaseptuagintilliard that I had never seen before... like I said, just pieced it together.

I just have to ask: Was it possible to put a "ths" on the end of that monster? And Mdyak, I also had Latin in High School, but only two years. Then we moved and the new school didn't offer Latin. However, I remember the beginning of "Braveheart" where the priest is saying a bunch of things in Latin, and I understood every word of it -- even after all those years! And "Gladiator", too, though a lot of that was the kind of rough speech not taught in Latin classes, so I had to guess their meanings from surrounding words and context. I have to think they simplified that stuff, though, because a lot of us old-time nerds learned at least some Latin. So they tossed us a bone.

[mdyak]

Yes, I have found a number of them - have a couple this month too. What I mean about the Latin is that several times now I found these words that I have not seen before, but I'm able to piece them together because I recognize pieces like quattuor or quadra or sesqui from all those years of Latin. There's only 25 letters on the board so only so many pieces that do have to fit together somehow. What they actually mean, though?... got me. I just know it's a lot of big numbers.

Too funny! A couple of minutes after I wrote the above note to you, I landed on a game you had played and found Quinquaseptuagintilliard that I had never seen before... like I said, just pieced it together.

[mdyak]

Congrats. (I'm a little confused though since I know you found a 52-point long number last August.) I never memorized the long number names. I definitely didn't use any knowledge of Latin. (Learning French in school was torture enough for me.) I just read the words once a day for a while, became familiar with the prefixes I didn't already know and the root words. I guess I "know the names" from seeing and playing them.

Yes, I have found a number of them - have a couple this month too. What I mean about the Latin is that several times now I found these words that I have not seen before, but I'm able to piece them together because I recognize pieces like quattuor or quadra or sesqui from all those years of Latin. There's only 25 letters on the board so only so many pieces that do have to fit together somehow. What they actually mean, though?... got me. I just know it's a lot of big numbers.

[lalatan]

So do the rest of you actually know the names of high numbers that we're being given now, or like me do you just figure them out? I'm so thrilled that I've finally found a use for my four years of high school Latin! I'm also excited that I found quinquaquadragintilliard all by myself in a brand new game today.

Congrats. (I'm a little confused though since I know you found a 52-point long number last August.) I never memorized the long number names. I definitely didn't use any knowledge of Latin. (Learning French in school was torture enough for me.) I just read the words once a day for a while, became familiar with the prefixes I didn't already know and the root words. I guess I "know the names" from seeing and playing them.