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Re:The insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast by charcircuit on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:37AM (#34170717)
Qi is a common word and being 2 characters definitely makes it simple.
Re:The insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast by quickthrower2 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:52AM (#34171090)
Not really. I am yet to hear someone use it in an everyday sentence. It is also a romanisation.
Re:The insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast by iopq on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:08AM (#34171164)
The word "gi" is also a romanization. So is "tsunami" and "matryoshka". Going further, the word "alphabet" is a romanization of ἀλφάβητος in Latin

so any borrowed word from a non-Latin alphabet is a romanization, that's not a sane criterion (κριτήριον)

Re:The insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast by dagw on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:08AM (#34171161)
You obviously don't hang out with people into pseudo-eastern 'philosophy'. I know several people who use it regularly.

Of all the 'weird' two letter words mentioned, I'd consider qi probably the most reasonable and common, and certainly one that I actually hear used

Re:The insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast by Tams80 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:57AM (#34171438)
Especially with it being the name of the defacto standard of wireless charging.

A brand name, yes, but from an actual word.

Re:The insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast by dagw on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:08PM (#34177270)
It was also the name of a promising, but ultimately failed, display technology[0].

[0] Anybody else here remember being both very excited about, and then very disappointed by, the Adam?

Re:The insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast by RandExt on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:35AM (#34172445)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(standard) I see this usage here more often than the mysticism one.