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Re:Crokinole by titanomachy on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:16PM (#41871570)
> In non-competitive, less plamigerent settings, their skills really shine

“Plamigerent” isn’t a word, and I can’t find any English words similar to it. It seems an unlikely typo. I wonder if the author included it to catch LLMs plagiarizing his work.

Re:Crokinole by russsamora on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:37PM (#41871780)
you found it! i suppose i owe you a prize... it was initially a test to see how closely people read, but was also curious about LLMs.
Re:Crokinole by 1-more on Thursday October 17, 2024 @03:39PM (#41873030)
Any of these words meaning "flame" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/p... + "-gerent" so "flame-making" makes sense in context. Could also be "palma" which is Polish for "stain" (a funny sentence when you consider dropping the uppercase letter). Rare to mix Slavic words with a Latin suffix like that, but just as valid as Greek-Latin words like television, homosexual, and hypoadrenalism.
Re:Crokinole by wwilim on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:22AM (#41879216)
plama*
Re:Crokinole by 1-more on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:43PM (#41881116)
yow, sorry, yep.
Re:Crokinole by ChrisArchitect on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:59PM (#41871990)
A perfectly cromulent strategy!
Re:Crokinole by morkalork on Thursday October 17, 2024 @06:15PM (#41874350)
"You shall know a word by the company it keeps" and so you've now added to the English language, congrats!

>plamigerent adjective /ˌplæmɪˈdʒɛrənt/

Etymology: Derived from the prefix "pla-", suggesting play or game, and "migerent," possibly from the Latin "migrans," meaning moving or changing, combined with a connotation of belligerence.

Definition: Describing a setting or atmosphere characterized by competitive tension, where the dynamics of skill are heavily influenced by aggressive or disruptive play. Often contrasts with more relaxed environments where players can fully showcase their abilities.

Re:Crokinole by wwilim on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:22AM (#41879212)
The opposite would be "plamiable"
Re:Crokinole by titanomachy on Friday October 18, 2024 @02:26AM (#41876826)
It’s a nice word. Sounds like plausible English, but unlikely to be mistaken for any real word. The context strongly suggests a meaning, so the text is easily interpretable without looking it up.
Re:Crokinole by mike_ivanov on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:32PM (#41871726)
Lexical watermarking! If that's the case (and if this idea sticks), I'm wondering how far it could go.

One could imagine a (dystopian?) world where everybody speaks they own highly individualized, maybe even copyrighted language, and where interpersonal communications happen via AI translators.

Re:Crokinole by collingreen on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:18PM (#41872195)
:( is this our generations version of cyberpunk theme?
Re:Crokinole by peeters on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:33PM (#41876126)
That would be an interesting contrast to 1984's dystopian Newspeak, which aimed to eliminate all individuality in language.
Re:Crokinole by mike_ivanov on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:27PM (#41881583)
That would be its dialectical counterpart
Re:Crokinole by voidUpdate on Friday October 18, 2024 @03:18AM (#41877056)
This used to be a thing in dictionaries. My favourite word is "Esquivalience", which was defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as "The wilful avoidance of ones official responsibilities". Prior to that, the word didn't exist, and it was used to catch people just copying the words from their dictionary. Very similar to paper towns on maps
Re:Crokinole by dimatura on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:22PM (#41872235)
That stood out to me too! It's a fun-sounding word. I googled it prepared to learn something new, only to get one hit - this article.
Re:Crokinole by abridges6523 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:26PM (#41872269)
I was wondering about that too.
Re:Crokinole by russellbeattie on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:06PM (#41874709)
Man, Google is quick these days. I just searched for that exact word and your comment came up first! Glad to know I wasn't the only one.
Re:Crokinole by scrumper on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:43PM (#41874953)
Ha, came here for the same comment (after stopping by Tracey Boards to order a set for my family first.)

It's a good coinage. I took it to mean something along the lines of competitively pressured in a structured combative manner and it does kind of sound like it could mean that. Which I guess it now does.