Re: Alpha Chain scramble - query needed on D word

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If someone resumes the game, I'll see if I can find it comprehensible

by the time the next game starts.

I thought I understood the rules, but apparently not.

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I can't really suggest anything, I noticed persons were talking about other words being used that were not english. So I would advice that others try to with there own judgement use words that might be challenging but still play an active role in english usage. Such as words presented on this forum and that are common or somewhat common, not entirely advanced such as large medical words. I will keep paying attention to the game and likely re-write a new one with advisory suggestions. As far as the game, I do not who's turn it is but keep going. Persons make it far to complicated and it is just words scambled and de-scambled.Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: Re:> Kate, why do you complicate matters so much? Can't we just have a

little> fun and play a game without analyzing (beating a dead horse) to death?I don't find it fun to play a game without knowing how it operates. suggested that the game should operate without certain words.He suggested how to decide what words we should operate without. I sawsomething in his suggestion that makes that suggestion hard to apply.I asked about that. To explain the difficulty I felt, I gave examples.Plainly this did not work very well. Toni or , can you pleasesuggest a different way I should have tried to show you the difficultyI saw in knowing how to follow 's suggestion? Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@... http://learn.to/handwrite, http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair 325 South Manning Boulevard Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA telephone 518/482-6763 AND REMEMBER ... you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)I'm from this planet, the rest of you are not.Please go back to Mars or Venushttp://www.simplecomplexities.org/community/

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>

> If someone resumes the game, I'll see if I can find it

comprehensible

> by the time the next game starts.

> I thought I understood the rules, but apparently not.

>

>

> Yours for better letters,

> Kate Gladstone

> Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest

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> http://learn.to/handwrite,

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> Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA

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>

I resumed the game pages back. The word was easygoing... Now you can

start one with " F " and if noone gets it, so what? It's a game.

Either someone figures out the word or not. To me it's not a game of

life and death, just a word game. We should try not to complicate it

so...So Kate, you may pick a word that starts with " F " since my " E "

word got overlooked because we were so busy picking the rules to

pieces...

[Guest guest]

's advice sounds very sensible:

> ... use words that might be challenging but still play

> an active role in [E]nglish usage. ...

Hoping that someone will present an " e " -word, I remain ...

Yours for better letters,

Kate Gladstone

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-- Kate please see my reply above... - In

, " Kate Gladstone "

<handwritingrepair@...> wrote:

>

> 's advice sounds very sensible:

>

> > ... use words that might be challenging but still play

> > an active role in [E]nglish usage. ...

>

> Hoping that someone will present an " e " -word, I remain ...

>

>

> Yours for better letters,

> Kate Gladstone

> Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest

> handwritingrepair@...

> http://learn.to/handwrite,

http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair

> 325 South Manning Boulevard

> Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA

> telephone 518/482-6763

> AND REMEMBER ...

> you can order books through my site!

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> I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

>

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Tell me how many words you use everyday that have the words dach and shund in them? Zero is my guess unless you're talking about a weiner dog. Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: Re:> ... There's no point in saying it's an English word when all of it's construct of >letters comes from Germany. ...If foreign origin (and a word having the same "construct of letters" -letter-sequence) makes a word un-English ...... then we can't call "lion" and "table" English words, because thesewords came into England from France, spelled just the way we spellthem in English.We can't call "circus" and "forum" English, because these came intoEngland from ancient Italy (Rome), spelled just the way we spell themin English.We can't call "patio" and "tornado" English, because these came

infrom Spanish-speaking countries, spelled just the way we spell them inEnglish.And I could go on ...If we exclude any of the thousands of English words that use the samesequence of letters in English as in their language of origin, thenwe'll have to keep quite a lot of the English language out of thegame. This will make the game much harder, not easier, to play -because it would mean that everybody will have to ascertain thepedigree of every word he or she might imagine playing, before s/heplays it. For example: , suppose you have to pick a word that startswith the letter "f." You post "rtifu" - nobody gets it - you say "Itwas 'fruit' " - and somebody who didn't get "fruit" will immediatelypoint out that you broke your own proposed rule by giving us thisword, because "fruit" has exactly the same sequence of letters inEnglish that it has in French where it came from

originally. Or else you post "rtifu," then (for instance) I get it, but thensomeone *else* jumps in and says that we *both* broke your ownproposed rule - that you shouldn't have presented the word, and Ishouldn't have solved it, because we agreed to play only with actualEnglish words and not with words like "fruit." This wouldn't happen just with "fruit" - it could also happenwith any of the thousands and thousands of other perfectly ordinaryEnglish words that have the same spelling in English as in theirlanguage of originThanks, anyway, for explaining where your confusion about "dachshund"came from. Certainly no one needs to apologize for such a commonconfusion. Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@... http://learn.to/handwrite, http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair 325 South Manning Boulevard Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA telephone 518/482-6763 AND REMEMBER ... you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

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Here's a radical suggestion for making the game tightly enforceable

and easily played: choose a limited subset of words that is precisely

defined. What words to use? <me looks at computer while typing,

looks at source code... EUREKA! Light bulb turns on> why don't we

limit the valid words to those in a subset of programming languages

that are part of ISO standards?

>

> - I *do* have a purpose: the purpose of pointing out the

> logical consequences of the rules that you would like to have a game

> played under.

>

> I'll happily play Alpha Chain Scramble with anyone, either under the

> present rules or with some specified modification such as the one you

> propose (not using any words that keep the " construct of letters "

> which they had in another language).

>

> Playing under any set of rules means knowing that the rules apply

> consistently. If a rule says we can't use " dachshund " because it has a

> German sequence of letters, then we can't use " fruit " because that has

> a French sequence of letters - or so it seems to me. I guess it

> doesn't seem that way to you, so I'd appreciate an explanation of why

> it doesn't seem that way to you. I want to understand how you think on

> this matter.

>

> Since nobody else has posted either in favor of, or against, your

> proposed restriction of the words used in Alpha Chain Scramble, I hope

> that someone else will come up with a solution that makes the game

> easily playable for you without making it hard and unplayable for me.

>

>

> Yours for better letters,

> Kate Gladstone

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>

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Ha, my mother will probably get angry at me getting on this, but I

feel no choice in the matter.

I wonder at the amount of time you put into such a pointlessly

pile of nothingness. Do you do it in a vain and fruitless attempt to

better yourself? Even with the previous question being entirely

rhetorical, I would still expect someone of your nature to give an

answer. I am but a 17 year-old aspie " teen " and even I can notice

such aspects of your person. From your language and wording it seems

you either are a decript old woman who's vanity prevents her from

forming even the most minute of bonds even with someone on the

internet or from the use of s/he and such, a pathetic woman who is

trying to seem independent and strong from a lack of self-esteem,

farced by your abundent self-indulgence.

The reason, nay, the entire message of your posting is of no

importance to anyone but yourself and fellow femi-nazi women,

probably most lesbians of some sort. One might suggest watching

How the Grinch Stole Christmas and learn something from it, heck you

might even learn something.

PS: Do not attempt a vain attempt of a comeback.

Yours Truely,

Noah Barker

>

> Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: Re:

>

>

>

> > ... There's no point in saying it's an English word when all of

it's construct of >letters comes from Germany. ...

>

> If foreign origin (and a word having the same " construct of

letters " -

> letter-sequence) makes a word un-English ...

>

> ... then we can't call " lion " and " table " English words, because

these

> words came into England from France, spelled just the way we spell

> them in English.

>

> We can't call " circus " and " forum " English, because these came into

> England from ancient Italy (Rome), spelled just the way we spell

them

> in English.

>

> We can't call " patio " and " tornado " English, because these came in

> from Spanish-speaking countries, spelled just the way we spell

them in

> English.

>

> And I could go on ...

>

> If we exclude any of the thousands of English words that use the

same

> sequence of letters in English as in their language of origin, then

> we'll have to keep quite a lot of the English language out of the

> game. This will make the game much harder, not easier, to play -

> because it would mean that everybody will have to ascertain the

> pedigree of every word he or she might imagine playing, before s/he

> plays it.

> For example: , suppose you have to pick a word that

starts

> with the letter " f. " You post " rtifu " - nobody gets it - you

say " It

> was 'fruit' " - and somebody who didn't get " fruit " will

immediately

> point out that you broke your own proposed rule by giving us this

> word, because " fruit " has exactly the same sequence of letters in

> English that it has in French where it came from originally.

> Or else you post " rtifu, " then (for instance) I get it, but

then

> someone *else* jumps in and says that we *both* broke your own

> proposed rule - that you shouldn't have presented the word, and I

> shouldn't have solved it, because we agreed to play only with

actual

> English words and not with words like " fruit. "

> This wouldn't happen just with " fruit " - it could also

happen

> with any of the thousands and thousands of other perfectly ordinary

> English words that have the same spelling in English as in their

> language of origin

>

> Thanks, anyway, for explaining where your confusion

about " dachshund "

> came from. Certainly no one needs to apologize for such a common

> confusion.

>

>

> Yours for better letters,

> Kate Gladstone

> Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest

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> Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA

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>

>

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>

> Don't forget, there are links to other FAM sites on the Links page

in the folder marked " Other FAM Sites. "

>

>

>

>

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Re:

On 3/8/06, a name <drumthis2001@...> wrote:

>

> Tell me how many words you use everyday that have the words dach and shund

in them?

You mean the words " Dachs " and " Hund. " But, anyway, I use the word

" kindergarten " and " Volkswagen " 'way more often than I ever use the

words " Kinder, " " Garten, " 'Volk, " or " Wagen. "

;-)

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Kate Gladstone

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I know personally I read the posts mostly in order - otherwise I

would not be able to keep track.

At the moment I am having great difficulty keeping up with all the

posts and growing rather weary of some things too - I think I'm just

getting a bit tired from trying to keep up.

I'm replying to posts and then realising areas have already been

covered - so then I'm holding my tounge (or in this case fingers from

the keyboard) and then I realise no-one has said what I was thinking

and yet I am too tired to go and find the original post (sigh).

(more sighing - I've been sighing a lot today - people have even

commented - sigh)

> >

> > 's advice sounds very sensible:

> >

> > > ... use words that might be challenging but still play

> > > an active role in [E]nglish usage. ...

> >

> > Hoping that someone will present an " e " -word, I remain ...

> >

> >

> > Yours for better letters,

> > Kate Gladstone

> > Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest

> > handwritingrepair@

> > http://learn.to/handwrite,

> http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair

> > 325 South Manning Boulevard

> > Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA

> > telephone 518/482-6763

> > AND REMEMBER ...

> > you can order books through my site!

> > (Amazon.com link -

> > I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

> >

>

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Thanx for the correction Kate. Still, you have just admitted that you do not, in fact use the words found in the compound word "dachshund". You proved my point. Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: Re:On 3/8/06, a name <drumthis2001@...> wrote:>> Tell me how many words you use everyday that have the words dach and shund in them?You mean the words "Dachs" and "Hund." But, anyway, I use the word"kindergarten" and "Volkswagen" 'way more often than I ever use thewords "Kinder," "Garten," 'Volk," or "Wagen.";-) Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@... http://learn.to/handwrite, http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair 325 South Manning Boulevard Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA telephone 518/482-6763 AND REMEMBER ... you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

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Re:

On 3/8/06, a name <drumthis2001@...> wrote:

> Thanx for the correction Kate. Still, you have just admitted that you do

> not, in fact use the words found in the compound word " dachshund " . You

> proved my point.

What point did you have? I couldn't deduce it from your messages.

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Kate Gladstone

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My point is; Your everyday verbiage does not include the words Dach or Shund if you are in fact an English speaking person. Dachshund is German and you are wrong. I admit that I spelled Dachshund wrong and gave you the website where I got confused. How can you not understand that you could be wrong? Does it make you panic?Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: Re:On 3/8/06, a name <drumthis2001@...> wrote:> Thanx for the correction Kate. Still, you have just admitted that you do> not, in fact use the words found in the compound word "dachshund". You> proved my point.What point did you have? I couldn't deduce it from your messages. Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest

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Thanks for clarifying as far as you did. Did you mean that the fact of

an English word having non-English parts makes the word non-English?

Or what exactly did you mean?

I don't know what it would feel like to panic over getting something

wrong. I get things wrong lots of times, but I don't panic over that.

Why do you ask?

Yours for better letters,

Kate Gladstone

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Sometimes I get a panic feeling that I've suddenly no desire to speak to certain people and yet they keep pressing me and I get upset. No one likes to get upset. I'm asking for you to talk about yourself on this forum instead of asking questions. Believe me, I know what it's like to have low self-esteem and have second thoughts about the way I present myself. Here's one for starters: What kind of architecture do you like and what architecture do you dislike? Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@...> wrote: Thanks for clarifying as far as you did. Did you mean that the fact ofan English word having non-English parts makes the word non-English? Or what exactly did you mean?I don't know what it would feel like to panic over getting somethingwrong. I get things wrong lots of times, but I don't panic over that.Why do you

ask? Yours for better letters, Kate Gladstone Handwriting Repair and the World Handwriting Contest handwritingrepair@... http://learn.to/handwrite, http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair 325 South Manning Boulevard Albany, New York 12208-1731 USA telephone 518/482-6763 AND REMEMBER ... you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold)

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Nick asks:

Here's one for starters: What kind of architecture do you like and

what architecture do you dislike?

I like:

Northern European architecture of the prehistoric through medieval periods

ancient Egyptian architecture

ancient Babylonian architecture

ancient Assyrian architecture

Greek architecture of the Doric order

yurts

log cabins

tents

underground architecture

architecture of prehistoric and tribal peoples around the world

geodesic domes

modern architecture when it doesn't consist of large, shiny parallelipipeds

I dislike:

baroque architecture

the kind of modern architecture that consists of large, shiny

parallelipipeds

buildings that mash together mutually incongruous styles

(e.g., Greek columns on an imitation log cabin with a stucco chimney)

How about you, Nick?

Yours for better letters,

Kate Gladstone

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