You have something of a point there, and we’d be better off if we didn’t have so many men emoting rather than reasoning about important matters in the stereotypical female manner.

But there are a vast number of men who subscribe “devoutly” to religions containing absurd, illogical, vicious, and just plain pointless “doctrines” — presumably in part because doing so gives them emotional satisfaction.

Ostensibly these men refuse to re-examine, let alone leave, the “package deal” they were given by their parents because it would be too emotionally upsetting (and perhaps embarrassing for them and offensive to family and friends).

Related… The words “bow (and arrow)” and “bow (politely)” are _heteronyms_: they are spelled alike but are pronounced differently and have different meanings.

There’s some reason you want to pick up a bunch of rocks. Which means you need to kick a bunch of rocks to test them for curses.

In theory this is great. Makes the world seem more real. If you can think of something you might realistically be able to do, Nethack will probably let you do it and will react in a meaningful way.

In practice, incredibly repetitive. If it was just this one thing, it would be a weird design oversight. Instead the whole game is this way.

Playing every game (that I’ve checked) with hardcore death is boring. The smart thing is to never take any risks. Never allow the game to fight back. Zero tension, and tons of grinding or farming.
They don’t have to be designed this way, but they always are.
Playing a zero-risk style should cap your achievement. Taking risks should be necessary to properly win. The gameplay should be about figuring out how to make the risks profitable (on average). It is likely the Empire will fall before anyone designs a game like this, though.

You are correct re. some rocks, but they aren’t really rocks, just marked a bit like rocks. Half the time the hidden item doesn’t help, or is negative.

Must admit, haven’t played for some time. I liked the Nintendo DS port. Still, never made it to the exit. Final level, many times, but never made it out.

Hit a normal rock, it’s just a wasted move.

This has to be the longest article ever written abut Scrabble.My only question is, why?

but the sweet spot has been found to be (only) 135

Much more parsimoniously explained by there being so many more people with IQ in that range than at the higher end. The normal curve declines steeply in the far tails.

Simply put, other skills matter as well and you are more likely to find people with extremes of those among the many more with IQs around 135.

No need to postulate things like the negative effects of higher IQs. Generally what you find is the higher IQs are even more over-represented relative to their proportion in the population.

Serbs are quite proud of Tesla. I had no idea Einstein married one either. Given what I know about marriages between related persons of profession she may have done a lot without much credit.

Anyway, how did this discussion turn into a thread about Jews?

Rather than say it isn’t true and call the commenter a smear word, bring up some information that proves your opposing point of view. If you don’t, you have no leg to stand on.

I don’t recall a ‘kick the rock’ keystroke, nor ‘striking rocks’ having any effect.

And that’s why you keep dying in Nethack.

Perhaps not that one in particular, since you don’t remember it. You’re failing to remember some other particle of lore.

VG is indeed brain training if you play them as brain training. Much like books in that regard: reading a book is not necessarily an intellectual activity, no matter how ‘smart’ the book is. Whereas if you can get some reps in, it doesn’t matter how ‘dumb’ the thing is.

VG can be especially good brain training because the cycle between prediction and result is so fast.
Not particularly Nethack, though. It has few underlying principles – maybe even fewer than chess. Much more biology than physics. Prediction is a guessing game, and you can’t train luck. You can practice memorization on any game, except the part where memorization is not especially trainable.

Flow of errors

It’s simply a typo. I’ve already acknowledged that I sometimes make them. BFD.

Meanwhile, you’ve made all sorts of wildly inaccurate and nonsensical claims, starting with this howler:

The author gives a glimpse of his true language acuity with the error commonly made by Yanks seen in the quote below.

Yanks may have many retarted [sic] pronunciations,

“…apoloise [sic] for my insulting post..

Homophone and homonym are not synonymous,

Sure they are.

Homonym – one of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning.

Homophone – one of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.

Synonym – A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.

— American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Third Edition 1992

[my bold]

complemented

Really, you just can’t stop the flow of errors, it is funny, see that ‘due’ for ‘do’ is from the Scrabble rote-learner who can’t spell, you defend that, and throw out another word that means something different from what you think.

I don’t recall a ‘kick the rock’ keystroke, nor ‘striking rocks’ having any effect.

Really, if wanting to play video games again, should return to the many I bought and enjoyed but haven’t finished. Finished many, possibly a giant waste of time, but also fun at the time, and to some extent, brain training.

Idiocy.
Possibly as a non-native speaker you didn’t pick up the difference.

Jackman’s error was not a type. [sic]

You too don’t know what you’re talking about.

I’ve already stated earlier in this thread that English is my first language. So much for your reading comprehension, but nice work with the name-calling.

My father taught English at a Cal state university for over 30 years, where I also attended grad school in English.

I am a native-born American, educated in my youth by Dominicans and Jesuits in Roman Catholic parochial schools in the Midwest, where I commonly scored at or near the top among my peers in all standard tests; highest IQ in my class; selected for Great Books as an 8th grader; recipient of certificate for high academic achievement on the 1962 NEDT for scoring in the 98th percentile on nationally-administered Scientific Reading Comprehension tests.

Sparkon, you are a pompous idiot with a tin ear.

I can tell you the Air Force Security Service did not select anyone with a tin ear for Intensive Russian training, which I completed, while 1/3 of my class washed out.

I would add few people with tin ears manage at all with Japanese, but I was complemented on my Japanese accent by a number of Japanese during the several years I lived in Japan while in the service, during which time I completed the entire University of Maryland extension set of courses in Japanese. Later, my senior-year Japanese instructor referred to me in class as “the sage,” and had other students direct their questions to me when stumped.

Of course that was long ago, and I tossed my Japanese books aside with the advent of Google Translate, which should make every linguist giddy, but I certainly would not go on a Japanese language blog, and try to lecture the native Japanese speakers about the finer points of their language.

I’ll wrap this up by noting that the Japanese are known for their hilarious English translations, which commonly mix-up R and L. In Misawa long ago, one of the electronic stores had a big sign on its back wall:

STELEO

https://www.pinterest.com/jparbon/funny-japanese-signs/

“Dew, do and due are homophones. Virtually all native English speakers from the United States pronounce these three words exactly the same. ”

Wrong.

” in my fairly long life, I’ve never heard a native English speaker pronounce either dew of due that way. ”

Idiocy.
Possibly as a non-native speaker you didn’t pick up the difference.

Jackman’s error was not a type.

Sparkon, you are a pompous idiot with a tin ear.

What you’re describing is basically the “anagramming” I described in the article. There are certainly worse approaches to Scrabble, but the flaw here is that you’ll spend far too much time trying to find plays, and not nearly enough time (assuming timed tournament conditions) determining the best play.

The memorization process I described entails alphabetizing the tiles on one’s rack during the game, just as they would appear on the flashcard. After enough study, recognition of any valid words becomes instantaneous, or nearly so. No time is wasted shuffling tiles because the player has trained himself to associate the alphagram, in standard form, with the words.

Homophone and homonym are not synonymous, and for all but a minority of US English speakers, the examples I gave are all homophones only in the very limited subset of some forms of U.S. English, but not one of my eight examples of bad usage is a homonym, and to most, not a homophone, either.

Homonyms, jig as a dance and jig as a mechanical or structural support device are homonyms.

Mr. Dackman sure deserved my mocking his use of ‘due’ where it should have been ‘do’. Surprising thing is that you decided to try to jump on me despite my having been correct.

I’ve heard it, albeit only satirically. It’s an upper-crust kind of accent, and of course America lacks an upper crust.

Since I’ve only heard it third-hand, by someone making fun of the kind of person who says it that way, I don’t know if it’s actually upper class or if it’s about middle-class poseurs.

E.g. pronouncing hwat, hwite, or hwale is a real thing, but it’s about being snooty, not about genuinely being an aristocrat. Saying due “properly” may have been the same sort of thing.

Ascending in Nethack reliably is possible – maybe it’s even possible to play well enough to guarantee it.

It’s like chess. It’s also completely unlike chess, since instead of memorizing a bunch of variations on the same theme, it’s memorizing an even larger amount of distinct and unrelated facts. E.g, you have to remember to kick every rock before you pick it up.

How many? Nethack is a bit like chess with 20,000 pieces. You win once you remember what they all do and what other piece to play them on.
There’s a guide. It takes an hour and a half just to read it. https://alt.org/nethack/mirror/homepage.mac.com/mhjohnson/mag-r342.html
There’s background you might also need to read.

Never mind just reading it, think about understanding and remembering to use all the things it says.

(I haven’t tried the guide myself, so it might, further, be missing some stuff. Kicking every rock sounds tedious as hell to me, let alone the rest of the rules, which means I have no desire to play Nethack well. Or even well enough to not die in minutes.)

Come to think there’s a big similarity with I Wanna Be The Guy. An intermediate-skill game goes like this: you play for a while. Then you run into something you haven’t seen before. Then it kills you, because not already exactly knowing its nature is extremely deadly. Then you get to re-play the bits that already don’t kill you.

Thanks for that as it is quite helpful.

After reading your comment I have concluded that you are probably correct about hyperurbanisms. Over the past decade I have made eight trips between Vancouver Island where I live and south-east Africa where I am now, and I have probably been picking up different pronunciations of words that are properly phonetically identical.

For my own part I tend to pronounce “dew” and “do” the same, but “due” with a slight “g” sound at the beginning.

I also found that after reading the same essay multiple times that my head would develop a kind of bobbing motion that may be related to my ever increasing inability to see the actual words on the page with each pass as it were.

Then some time later I was watching a segment of a 60 Minutes-like program with a segment on some mullahs in the Middle East teaching the Koran to a group of seven-or-eight year-olds who were following along with their own copies, and I noticed that their little heads were bobbing along with the same cadence that I had experienced. It occurred to me that they were likely not seeing the words as written but rather what the mullahs were telling them that they were reading. Very profound potential consequences I think.

Also, with respect to the term “typo”, I think that you are correct in its technical meaning. But more than that I find that I rarely make such errors with my handwriting. I think it probably has something to do with the slower speed or words written per minute.

Finally, I absolutely agree with the necessity of proofreaders. Unfortunately, based on a broad sampling of what is presented on the internet these days, they seem to be an ever more vanishing species!

Thanks again, and much appreciated. Tim.

Yanks may have many retarted [sic] pronunciations, I give eight examples above, that does not excuse pretending that the words are the same, as you did.

Yes, I know the meaning of ‘homophone’, but you displayed that you don’t know the meaning of ‘homonym’. you displayed that you don’t know the meaning of ‘homonym’.

No, I’m sorry to say you still don’t know what you’re talking about. The examples you give are misspellings or typos but not mispronunciations.

In my grammar school education, homonym was the term used for words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. We also studied synonyms and antonyms at that level.

Homophone is a synonym for homonym, and is a more recent addition to my vocabulary.

Homographs are sometimes incorrectly grouped with homonyms, but they are an entirely different kettle of fish that cannot lead to misspelling or typos because homographs are spelled exactly the same, but have different meaning.

The different meanings of homographs are usually clear, or can be inferred from reading context.

Just as it’s wise to have someone proof copy before it is submitted for publication, so too it is wise to avoid commenting when sloshed, which is a problem I don’t have simply because I no longer drink.

She just doesn’t know what to due with him.

Give her her do.

Our taxes are do.

We’ll due something some time soon.

We don’t have a clue what to due.

I just don’t know what to due with myself.

Doggie due.

Etc.

I due apoloise for my insulting post, you are generally a commenter I like, and of course, as when I’m tired and drunk, my English breaks, usually avoid, but didn’t this time. Yanks may have many retarted pronunciations, I give eight examples above, that does not excuse pretending that the words are the same, as you did.

Yes, I know the meaning of ‘homophone’, but you displayed that you don’t know the meaning of ‘homonym’.

I didn’t talk about Einstein, I just mentioned that his Serbian wife did the mathematical part of the theory.

But that is wrong, Marcel Grossmann helped Einstein with the esoteric part of math.
Milena Maric was brilliant, but the math assistance came from Grossmann.

I will not go into whether he was a Jew and/or a plagiarist, but the fact is that as a thinker he was far below Nikola Tesla, who changed the course of world history and whose ideas are not yet fully understood.

That is demonstrably not true; Einstein changed the course of world history much more than Tesla.
There is no doubt that Tesla was a genius, but the fact that his ideas still need to be fully understood may mean they are incorrect.

Not quite, it’s not comparable. I’ve wasted and enjoyed too many hours playing Hack, Nethack, Rogue and a couple of ports, reach the twenty-somethingth dungeon near thirtieth, but too many monsters appear.

Have tried not attacking anything unless needed, and just collecting things, but that doesn’t work either. Limit on things to carry.

Ain’t like any kind of chess, s’pose that D’n’D nuts (had friends of the type) may have a better idea of the principles, but I’ve only ever failed near the exit.

So, the winning strategy must be to have as many invisibility potions and kill everything spells as possible, and use them just before escape. Still, half tried that, too, didn’t work.

I find that when I proofread my own writing I do not see what is on the page or screen but rather what my brain thinks is on the page

Yes, this is the exact reason most professional writers give their work to a professional proofreader (or at least, to someone else) to proofread before the work is submitted for publication. In many newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, and publication departments, the copy also has to pass across the editor’s desk before he will release it, or sign off on it, for publication.

When pronounced properly they are very similar but not exact.

Dew, do and due are homophones. Virtually all native English speakers from the United States pronounce these three words exactly the same.

I’ll concede that my American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition, 1992 gives dyo̅o̅ as a secondary pronunciation of dew and due after do̅o̅, but in my fairly long life, I’ve never heard a native English speaker pronounce either dew of due that way. Never, and I was in the U.S. Air Force, and served with guys from all over the country, and have traveled extensively since then.

I suggest that (mis)pronouncing due or dew as dyo̅o̅ qualifies as a hyperurbanism:

hyperurbanism
[ hahy-per-ur-buh-niz-uhm ]
noun Linguistics.

a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker’s own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hyperurbanism

But this quibble about pronunciation is leading us off into the weeds, and likely had nothing to do with author Joe Dackman’s typo.

Typo is short for typographical error, and you can also call it a misprint. Typos are errors made during the typing process that have been missed by editors and proofreaders. Originally, typos were mistakes made during typesetting, but today you can use the term for mistakes in any typewritten text, from instant messages to social media posts.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/typo

I didn’t talk about Einstein, I just mentioned that his Serbian wife did the mathematical part of the theory. I will not go into whether he was a Jew and/or a plagiarist, but the fact is that as a thinker he was far below Nikola Tesla, who changed the course of world history and whose ideas are not yet fully understood.

I stated several important facts when the American deep state worked against Serbian interests and is still working, trying to justify its own aggression by pressuring Serbia to give up Kosovo. Also, it sees Serbs as Russian allies, so it puts more pressure on Serbia, encouraging her puppet vassals in the region to provoke Serbia and start a war against them.

So, the topic you mentioned is secondary for me. I am trying to uncover historical falsifications directed against the Serbs (and against the humanity) and the reasons why attempts have been made to destroy the Serbs for almost 2000 years. We have a strange anti-Serb coalition that works in sync – the Vatican, Communists, Zionists, Islamic fundamentalists, US deep state imperialists but the biggest enemy is human stupidity that repeats the propaganda of the previous coalition and whose Serbophobia is often present on this blog.

Anti-Semitism, real and perceived, is persecuted in all countries and at the end of the day, the US military machine is in the service of global Zionism. On the other hand, Serbophobia is desirable and openly encouraged. Serbs must defend themselves alone from that coalition.

Hi: Thank you for that as it is quite helpful.

I find that when I proofread my own writing I do not see what is on the page or screen but rather what my brain thinks is on the page. About thirty years ago I wrote a hundred-plus page analysis of an important court decision and had read it over at least 20 times over a two month period, at which point I would have bet good money that there could not be more than three to four typos in the whole thing (I have a background in statistical analysis).

I was also about to take a copy of it with me on a month long trip to the other side of the world for a family wedding when my business partner said to the effect “Leave the damn thing alone and get back to it fresh when you get back”.

When I got back and read it again, I found perhaps 3 to 4 typos on almost every page! Clearly I had not been reading precisely what was in fact on the page.

Ever since I have been studying the phenomenon and mentally categorizing the most common types of such errors, starting with double “and” as in “and and” where my brain was not registering the second “and”.

But “due” for “do” is a true anomaly as it does not fit the pattern of anything I have encountered, and seems to be more phonetic-based than visual. When pronounced properly they are very similar but not exact.

Thank you again regardless for the article as there is much fascinating and useful information in there for me even though I am not a Scrabble player.

Tim.

I‘m a fast typist, but of course my fingers cannot keep up with my thoughts as I compose on the fly, and my fingers dance over the keys.

I notice or detect my typing errors when I’ve already typed several characters or even words past them, and typically, I simply mash on the backspace key until I backtrack past the error(s) before continuing.

When I’m cruising along without making typos, I know I have some kind of mental multitasking going on in the back of my mind, so to say, and merely thinking of another word, or having it cross my mind – even the wrong word – can result in my fingers typing it.

We could talk about the right and left hands and fingers being wired to the opposite sides of the brain, and how language is usually deemed to be a left-hemisphere activity, so it seems obvious that signals are flying back and forth across the corpus callosum while we type.

Finally, I see that author Joe Dackman had used the word due twice before he mistyped it in place of do.

…but my results were better due to having more time available to apply that understanding…

[…]

Grogginess due to lack of sleep often hindered my Scrabble performance severely. Caffeine and appropriate food helped to counteract this, but not nearly enough. My Scrabble tournament results were mostly either superb or lousy, with little middle ground.

I can arise early and due routine physical or mental work well enough, but with my mind foggy I don’t have the mental energy to hold a train of thought long enough for real problem-solving…

Do new habits die hard, or is it parapraxis, or even a phonologically based lexical selection error?

I dunno, but your typos may vary. Mine sure do.

https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/2380/when-you-think-one-word-but-write-another-similar-sounding-word

Wrong. I don’t write about Jews at all…

Well, your comment sure pushes the narrative used by those that hate all Jews that Einstein plagiarized the ideas for his theories; he was poor at math and other untrue opinions.

But it sounds to me as though what is on the flash cards is patterns, not words to memorize.

It matters not flashcards are for memorization. You seem to have a hard time understanding what memorization is.

Pathetic

Comment
by from discussion
inAskHistorians

“an old Jewish joke”

Only 1 half Jewish (Kasparov) world chess champion in last 50 years. Others are Ding Liren, Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Anatoly Karpov.

Only 1 Jewish person in current World Top 30.

Shortly after Max Planck developed his theories, he went on tour in Europe explaining it to audiences of physicists. One day his chauffeur said to him, Dr. Planck, you are exhausted, and by now I know the answers to all of these repetitive questions, so why don’t you just put on my chauffeurs cap, and sit in the audience, and take a rest, and I will conduct the lecture as a physicist expert on the theories, filling-in for you.

Well, the imposture worked fine until a physicist in the audience asked a novel, creative, extremely complicated question. The flummoxed lecturer responded: That question is so insultingly stupid and it’s so easy that I will just have my chauffeur handle it; he is sitting there in the audience wearing the cap, and I will tell him to answer it.

And that’s the anecdote that gave rise to the phrase “chauffeur knowledge.”

“I can arise early and due routine physical or mental work well enough, but with my mind foggy I don’t have the mental energy to hold a train of thought long enough for real problem-solving.”

You should have a sleep study done. You could be in for a shock.

No worries, the words I mentioned have a Serbian origin. Don’t worry about Sanskrit, it would be too much for this scrabble story.

Not sure why you bring up Sanskrit.

I was alluding to, for instance, the appropriation by English of many French, Latin, and Greek words, or the retention of archaic spelling based on no-longer-current pronunciation, etc.

The rest of of your post is more or less incomprehensible

But it sounds to me as though what is on the flash cards is patterns, not words to memorize.
One could say that I had “memorized” common letter combinations in English.
Long ago I guess I did.

However, I must admit that I couldn’t actually follow the alphagram argument.
How alphagrams relate to actually playable words.
Perhaps the author will clarify whether his success in Scrabble rests on memorization or on pattern recognition.

here’s some scrabble we all can grok:

http://seductivejewess7.com/type-ii-l225-sheila-sarah-luftschein/

Wrong. I don’t write about Jews at all, although I sometimes mention the unprecedented anti-Serb media campaign of their American media during the events in Yugoslavia in the 90s, the decisive role of their politicians in the bombing of Serbia, as well as their exclusivity as victims of genocide and the minimization of Serbian victims in WW2, whose number seems to have been bigger than theirs.

The description of alphagrams didn’t sound to me like memorization per se.

His comment was :
The most efficient way for a human to absorb the huge number of alphagrams needed for competitive Scrabble is to study flashcards.

Flashcards are a tool for memorization.

Yep, Milena Maric did all maths for him.

Indeed, Einstein was not proficient in math to the degree required for his theory, but it was Marcel Grossmann, also a Jew, who helped Einstein with complex math. But the point is it was Einstein that produced the concept of relativity through his imagination, ability to reason abstractly, and to develop and understand new physical concepts.
The purpose of your comment was to belittle the accomplishments of a brilliant Jew due to obsessive hatred of all Jews.

You can be a GrandMaster in chess regardless of your language. However you can only be good in Scrabble in your own language. So if you only speak English you are the Wizard but playing in Spanish you are an asshole. Scrabble therefore is a measure of word knowledge and spelling and not IQ.

As for Blacks, here are some tales from the Crypt in the West Indies. ENJOY !!

Thanks, you may give us some history of any of – ghost, land, cat, pyre, medicine, vampire, etc. What is the connection between English and Sanskrit (considering the time distance of 3000 years, plus few thousands of kilometers). An English speaker is not able to write any non-English name without spelling and, the other speaker is not able to read his writing.

Are you a little nervous, Anonymous? I have noticed that some Serbophobes are very frustrated when they cannot find a single material error in my comments. Yes, you are right, the Serbian alphabet is the simplest in the world and it originates from the oldest script in the world in Vinca, the cradle of European civilization, culture, language (and alphabet) and is at least 7000 years old. Even a moron like you could learn to read and write without mistakes in three minutes and become a top expert in Serbian Scrabble (or crosswords).

I noticed that error.

I assumed it arose in the same fashion that I quite often make such errors: a kind of short circuit, when I am writing fast, to a homophone of the word I want—e.g., “their” for “there.”

Sometimes this even occurs when I am writing by hand.

I usually catch it immediately, but occasionally I don’t.

There hasn’t been any real progress in physics for at least a quarter-century, and the proximate cause is ‘shut up and compute.’
Indeed it’s already showing signs of regression, having lost things it knew before science was nationalized in 1945.

The most common cause is having non-low-A and reading a bunch of text posted online. End up copying their bad habits even if you know better. Monkey see, monkey due.

Yep, Milena Maric did all maths for him.

It’s fun to play Scrabble. It is a social activity.

Except it is not much fun to play with very competitive people.

They love to block others from making any words and more or less ruin the game.

All they can think of is the number of points they got.

It is possible to enjoy winning and making good plays without ruining the game by having too great a need to win.

Regarding the inconsistencies of English spelling, over the years English speakers have more or less chosen to retain the etymological history in their spellings, instead of “modernizing” and “reforming.” The same is true of many of the choices made in French—spellings reflect the history of the word, not purely the phonetics.

My first hypothesis is mainly that it’s boring. Chess is a repetitive game. 135 is midwit, by the way. Grug brain is below 115 at best.

If you’re genuinely intelligent the solution to every chess problem is: forfeit the game and go do something else. Calculating future chess positions is grunt work, which is why computers are so good at it. No one claims doing multiplication drills is a fun and deep game.

“What you have described is memorization”

The description of alphagrams didn’t sound to me like memorization per se.

Possibly I missed the point of these, but to me it sounded like a more sophisticated version of how I play Scrabble. When I get my rack I immediately start to look not for words to make of the letters in front of me —in my head—but combinations of letters that I know occur in English. That means, consonant clusters with vowels, or combinations with -gh endings, etc.

Quite quickly as I rearrange the tiles in different typical combinations and also look at the board, whole words start to pop out that I wouldn’t otherwise have “seen” or even thought of.

This seems to me to be more pattern creation and recognition than memorization.

But perhaps this system of mine for “excavating” words from a group of letters unrelated to what the author describes.

Yup.

Autistic savants can do some pretty fantastic things:

Calender calculations over 80,000 years

Almost instantly count the matches dumped out of a matchbox

Calculate lengthy prime numbers

Remember day’s events throughout their lives.

All of which doesn’t relate much to abstract logical thinking – the important intelligence.

The back and forth over ‘due’ had me more confused than its actual appearance until I spotted the comment that it sounds the same as ‘do’. Ah yes the American very hard ‘d’ before a vowel. Sometimes Canadian pronunciation is softer, I wonder if they too pronounce ‘due’ as ‘doo’.

Out of buttons, but Thanks.

It happens to me all the time, and I scored 2330 on my GRE in 2000.

STAINER

Not all nouns can get an “s” or be pluralized at all. Quail, sheep, fish (yes, “fishes”), Iroquois, fugu, negress, lioness, penis, deer, labia…

“Physical units having to do with electricity can be prefixed with an AB-.”

Like “AB-Bullshit”?

“A player lucky enough to cover two triple-word squares in a single turn will need to be able to multiply by 9. ”

The players are not responsible for scorekeeping.

“I can arise early and due routine physical or mental work well enough” Yes, dear, of course you can.

The author sounds like a huge fag who wants to brag about how smart he is.

#12 : Serbia, Serbian, and Serbians suck major ass and Mrs. Ass is quite distressed.

You may be a player, and a good one, but not a gambler. No gambler ever let illegality prevent a bet anywhere ever.

Chess, too, is not an intelligence test. Yes, intelligence selects masters from the top 2% IQ, but the sweet spot has been found to be (only) 135. Not Albert levels. That means other factors are involved that very high IQ often cripples, such as nerve and strategy while under combat.

Scrabble is OK, but try stepping up to the world of Countdown….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6efMaapj94&pp=ygUaY291bnRkb3duIGdhbWUgc2hvdyBsZXR0ZXI%3D
Video Link

Oh, riilly(-.-)Zzz・・・・

Nice post, true on Fischer, people really should be collected his radio broadcast, I would guess that the one where he expl odes with emotion over 9/11 news ‘This is wonderful news!’ [in a very emotional voice]

Your NFL tips also appreciated but I don’t watch it, I’ll copy the list and try to find out how to bet on those things.

Anyway.

Thanks

That’s odd. I don’t recall ever having made that mistake before.

I always turn off auto-complete, auto-spellcheck, and similar things. My interests and language are abstruse enough that failure to do so would result in errors far more egregious than this one.

It must’ve come from my own mind, but I couldn’t tell you how.

“You piece of shit troll.”

The pot calls the teacup black.

Your entirely unfounded claim about “the error commonly made by Yanks” makes you the troll, here, Che Guava.

And despite your attempts to thump your chest about your 2nd grade English spelling prowess, the typo had already been noted in comment 13.

Fisher decided that chess of the international style was too predictable, so advocated Fisher Random Chess, with the positions of the pieces behind the pawns randomised.

lol roguelike chess

Derb would find your comment interesting.

Visuospatial intelligence is in fact one of the most important faculties in real-life scientific discovery.

And it’s completely useless if it’s not being used as an aide to logical intelligence.

Ah, so you’ve never heard of chunking?

Well jews love to promulgate this idea of Eisnstein, a dirty man, As a lazy patentents lerke, he is a lazy patents, by his own admission, and that time a talelenteted Serbian phsycist wife, many antecendts on the path, but when Al published from the Berne patent office, not one reference, not one acknelowedgment.

General rel much the same.

Einsteen, das klaun. But not funny,

Fisher decided that chess of the international style was too predictable, so advocated Fisher Random Chess, with the positions of the pieces behind the pawns randomised.

Bingo. That system would be a much better gauge of intelligence, ie, the ability to think on your feet to solve a problem intelligently.

“Human intelligence [is defined as] mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment.”

High level chess competitions nowadays seem to almost always end in a draw, which doesn’t prove a whole hell of a lot except a high ability to memorize end games. (There are chess players in my family.)

“About 40% of Whites have the same or lower IQ as Black average IQ.”

Not according to my calculator. Whites’ bell curve has an average IQ of 100 with a standard deviation of 15. The proportion of this bell curve below the Black average 85 is
normalcdf(-9E99,85,100,15) = 15.87%, not 40%.

Fisher decided that chess of the international style was too predictable, so advocated Fisher Random Chess, with the positions of the pieces behind the pawns randomised.

Chess puzzles online are randomized. Fischer also bravely pointed out that the Holocaust was baloney.

Jews exaggerate their suffering and are good at writing fiction. Thus, detention became genocide. Traditional Judaism holds that Jewish lives are vastly more valuable than Gentile lives. So, 600,000 Jewish deaths became 6,000,000 when telling the story to the general public.

Magnus Carlsen is another great chess player. He played fantasy football and did very well. Similar to fantasy is gambling.

Below are my picks for the upcoming football season. I can’t actually gamble because it’s not legal in my state (FL).

IQ of a particular group is just an averaged score. We can’t use the top 15% to justify the overall IQ score. Just like Whites using average White IQ to justify their intelligence over Blacks.

It would be helpful if you understood normal distribution and the bell curve. When a populations (let’s call them B) average is pushed to the left, on the X axis in relation to the average of another population (let’s call them W), the values under the curve at the extreme right on W’s axis will far exceed those of B’s. So for this subject, it means that Whites’ high IQ values will significantly exceed those of Blacks.

I was hoping there would be a discussion of black scrabble names but no luck. Darn!

I get it! You got to be dumb to play scrabble!

Gee, you guys is schmart.

About 40% of Whites have the same or lower IQ as Black average IQ.

Assuming there’s about 1 S.D, between them, isn’t 15% nearer the mark?

Einstein was a plagiarist.

Yada, yada, yada, this is the favorite, erroneous claim that those who hate all Jews love to promulgate.

You piece of shit troll.

and due routine physical or mental work

‘Do’, not ‘due’ is correct, not my first language, but in such a case, error is easy to see.

LOL, one is Norwegian, Swedish parents who adopted the other.

The author of this article is ample demonstration.

Or possibly the text was produced with voice to text software, and was not subsquently grammar- or spell-checked?

True, but the grandmasters memorise huge numbers of plays. Once read about how many Fisher and Spassky read. Thousands, the main points are openings, end-games, and particular arrangements, so that by memorisation, they play the advantageous of the former, and try to set up or block the latter.

Many variants of chess exist, I know and have played Japanese shougi and similarly named Chinese chess, but very different games and very different from each other.

A bookshop near Tokyo Station had an exhibition of different types of chess, and explaining the play, so many! Everywhere in N.H. from Spain to Japan, with eight or more slightly or somewhat different games in between.

Fisher decided that chess of the international style was too predictable, so advocated Fisher Random Chess, with the positions of the pieces behind the pawns randomised.

This Scrabble saga is bizarre. Both the Chisala articles and this one (which I haven’t fully read) make no sense to me. So, some Black people are good at Scrabble. So what? Should we organize some Scrabble competitions in the ghetto, so perhaps they’ll kill each other less? Or is the idea to use Scrabble instead of the SAT for Harvard admissions?

I like Scrabble. But all these pointless articles about IQ are stupid, on par on Steve’s articles about golf. Surely there are more pressing matters these days?

In the last two Chess World Championship matches, the Challenger was a Jew. Ian Nepomniachtchi. He lost to Magnus Carlsen in 2021, and lost to Chinese Ding Liren in 2023.
Ah, in 2012, the Challenger was Jewish Boris Gelfand – he lost to Indian genius Vishy Anand.

Anyway, currently Jews are STILL overrepresented in the chess élite: Svidler (retired?), Dubov, Radjabov, Aronian and the aforementioned Nepomniachtchi…
.
.
.

The greatest, by far, female chess-player ever is Jewess Judit Polgár.

He argues that this fact invalidates the poor results of African populations in IQ tests, his key point being that you have to be very smart to excel at this game.

IQ of a particular group is just an averaged score. We can’t use the top 15% to justify the overall IQ score. Just like Whites using average White IQ to justify their intelligence over Blacks. About 40% of Whites have the same or lower IQ as Black average IQ.

Capital idea Bro!

As a matter of fact, why don’t we mate every subconscious, with a woman from Norway, Sweden Iceland or Denmark to further the experiment, until the supply runs out!

The author gives a glimpse of his true language acuity [sic] with the error commonly made by Yanks

You don’t know what you’re talking about. I can’t recall ever seeing or reading that particular typo before, and unlike you, English is my first language.

Do and due are homophones, or homonyms – words that sound alike but have different meanings. The question raised in comment 13 by Timothy Madden is an interesting one.

That type of “unforced error” is called a malapropism, or dogberry.

It is indeed possible, as Chisala has pointed out in his discussion of French Scrabble, to excel in this game without any proficiency in the underlying language.

My late mother and her sister were vicious scrabble players. My wife has also been pretty dedicated to the game. I have been excessively educated in verbal disciplines and have spent a career making combinations of words into arguments and explanations. I’ve also been generally fluent in two Romance languages when I have the opportunity for immersion.

I considered these scrabble contests to be frivolous matters and, one evening, decided to sit in on a game with my Mother and Aunt. I figured I’d blow them away with my verbal skills. Instead, it took me fifteen minutes to call bs on the whole thing and angrily concede.

Thank you for explaining to me my misconceptions.

Strip Scrabble is the best. Why is this a pressing subject matter at present? Hopefully they’ll let us play scrabble in the new camps.

“But Ganesh Asirvatham’s name is Hindu and his appearance Dravidian, so presumably he is much closer genetically to the Anglo-Saxon Richards than to the Igbo and Yoruba champions of Nigeria.”

I don’t recommend this experiment but one way to find out about his genetic make up is to mate him with a white woman and if the byproduct looks like Barack Hussain Obama then he is a negroesque Igbo but most likely the child would look like Carmen Diaz.

P. S. I investigated his name and found that he is named after the potbellied, elephant trunk Hindu god Ganesha and his last name means blessing … it explains why he likes scrabble.

Certainly, there are Jews formidable at Maths too.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

True. He is Afro-Colombian by birth – adopted by Swedish parents. So, being “Afro-Colombian” makes him likely tri-racial.