Word Up

theodp writes "Depending on your perspective, the National Scrabble Championship is a major sporting event, an unrivalled intellectual competition, or the world's biggest dork-fest. So says Slate's Dan Wachtell, who turned to an anagram-drilling Unix program to gain an edge on the 850+ competitors. While hardly mainstream, competitive Scrabble is getting newfound attention thanks to the publication of Word Freak and release of Word Wars."

Comments

Re:scrabble americans

[Anonymous Coward]

I see english isn't your first language, therefore I extend you and yours a warm, welcoming FUCK OFF

Re:Word To You, Bro

[Anonymous Coward]

Dork certainly is a fitting description of someone who turns to a computer to help them with words. It's a game of pitting intellect vs intellect, not intellect vs 'Fred'*.

* Fred is a cycling term for wannabe, but with a strongly negative connotation


Given your snobby attitude, I'd say your games are more intellect vs 'Dick'*.

* Dick is used as a colloquialism in the UK to indicate someone "who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeable."