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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by Onavo on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:18PM (#42404787)
It's not as hard as you think, he's an English speaker and French and English shares approximately 40% of the vocabulary. And once you have mastered French, you have the other 80% needed for Spanish as it's a Latin language like French.
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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by recursive on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:31PM (#42404865)
How hard do you think I think it is? Are you implying that it's easy for an English speaker to master the English scrabble word list?
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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by bee_rider on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:50PM (#42404980)
Well, I think it is impossible, so the comment works for me.

And I refuse to update my priors to account for the fact that somebody did it. Because I can’t even memorize the English scrabble dictionary well enough to enjoy playing. I am happier to live in a universe in which Scrabble is just impossible.

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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by latentsea on Friday December 13, 2024 @02:17AM (#42406572)
For the stated time frame, it's definitely as hard as you think, and then much, much, much harder.
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