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Re: "Broad categories of words to eliminate... I am always..."
I added PAWL the other day - thanks!
2023-06-25 · 1 year ago
🕹️ skyjake [...] · 2023-06-25 at 08:41:
Is there some objective way to exclude all infrequently used and rare words, regardless of category? Comparing against some dictionary of common words, perhaps. Would seem fair if the same exclusion rule applied to everything.
Perhaps one way to deal with the common suffixes would be to give a point only for the first one that a player submits, and zero points for subsequent variations.
Broad categories of words to eliminate... I am always struggling with the tradeoff of balancing the dictionary: too many words and games become too large to be fun; too few and I get annoyed at 'such obvious' words missing... Currently close to optimal, I think. But I keep thinking of removing entire categories such as: - each word that ends in -MAN has a potential -WOMAN and -PERSON version; - birds - there are so darn many! - plants -- likewise. So many obscure grasses...And I found...