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But, let's not get ahead of ourselves, he could easily lose today of course.
Kirk Bevins wrote:PEPTONE
Kirk Bevins wrote:HEROIZES for a beater.
S Kirk Bevins wrote:ROSTRATE for a beater.
You love words too much! Pictures > Words. And in all seriousness I'm learning what these words mean as I make my point, so everyone's a winner.Kirk Bevins wrote:Haha you love your pictures too much.
URODELES for a beater.
Rich Priest wrote:STARWORT in the TOASTER round.
Thing is, I want to learn words to improve my game. There was one thread (LAZURITE/AZURITE etc I think) where people were posting images and I had no idea what they were...so couldn't learn the beaters. Didn't find it to be much of a learning tool.Matt Morrison wrote:Stop trying to beat Google Images though, it won't happen:
Dunno about other people, but when I post word images I make the file name of the file the word, so you can easily find out what the word is if you're interested. Might be easier to just post the word as well, though.Kirk Bevins wrote:Thing is, I want to learn words to improve my game. There was one thread (LAZURITE/AZURITE etc I think) where people were posting images and I had no idea what they were...so couldn't learn the beaters. Didn't find it to be much of a learning tool.
Yeah, absolutely. Chances are (unless you are doing a very rare search like URODELES) then Google will mainly give you images with the keyword(s) in the filename anyway, so that's useful. But yeah, word posting alongside would help.Michael Wallace wrote:Dunno about other people, but when I post word images I make the file name of the file the word, so you can easily find out what the word is if you're interested. Might be easier to just post the word as well, though.Kirk Bevins wrote:Thing is, I want to learn words to improve my game. There was one thread (LAZURITE/AZURITE etc I think) where people were posting images and I had no idea what they were...so couldn't learn the beaters. Didn't find it to be much of a learning tool.
Fair comments, Matt, but how would a picture of peptone be any better than someone just posting the word?Matt Morrison wrote: Yeah, absolutely. Chances are (unless you are doing a very rare search like URODELES) then Google will mainly give you images with the keyword(s) in the filename anyway, so that's useful. But yeah, word posting alongside would help.
Of course, it all goes back to the spoiler threads hate really. I certainly didn't introduce pictures to try to piss you off Kirk, nor to stump your continued growth and development (!!), I was just trying to turn spoilers threads back into something people could enjoy browsing. The chat for as long as I can remember suggests that in the absolutely huge majority of instances, words and numbers solutions simply don't tend to interest anyone other than the people posting them. 95% of the people on this forum don't really give too much of a fuck about the words people post, 99% don't use the spoilers threads as a learning tool.
'Better' isn't the most useful word to be using here, Kirk. As I've said, I think very few people 'use' spoilers threads to learn in the same manner you do.Kirk Bevins wrote:Fair comments, Matt, but how would a picture of peptone be any better than someone just posting the word?Matt Morrison wrote: Yeah, absolutely. Chances are (unless you are doing a very rare search like URODELES) then Google will mainly give you images with the keyword(s) in the filename anyway, so that's useful. But yeah, word posting alongside would help.
Of course, it all goes back to the spoiler threads hate really. I certainly didn't introduce pictures to try to piss you off Kirk, nor to stump your continued growth and development (!!), I was just trying to turn spoilers threads back into something people could enjoy browsing. The chat for as long as I can remember suggests that in the absolutely huge majority of instances, words and numbers solutions simply don't tend to interest anyone other than the people posting them. 95% of the people on this forum don't really give too much of a fuck about the words people post, 99% don't use the spoilers threads as a learning tool.
Really? Wouldn't for me.Matt Morrison wrote: pictures make these words more memorable.
And it's not a new idea. (Full credit to Matt for getting his body parts featured here.)Matt Morrison wrote:pictures make these words more memorable.
Different learning styles??Kirk Bevins wrote:Really? Wouldn't for me.
Well yes, but Matt's comment was "pictures make these words more memorable" and all it takes is one counter-example to invalidate the statement.Brian Moore wrote:Different learning styles??Kirk Bevins wrote:Really? Wouldn't for me.
But if they make words more memorable for one person, isn't Matt's statement true, on average?Kirk Bevins wrote:Well yes, but Matt's comment was "pictures make these words more memorable" and all it takes is one counter-example to invalidate the statement.
...then great (if the point of spoiler threads is to learn words). Matt said most people don't use the threads as learning facilities. I think the pictures are supposed to make the threads more "interesting".Brian Moore wrote: But if they make words more memorable for one person...
Kirk Bevins wrote:someone sack the shuffler.
It started that day Marc. That's probably what gave Matt the idea of posting pictures.Marc Meakin wrote:Where's the picture for ARIOSO?
fwiw Pictures are fine and can be fun, but I am glad that the picture matching craze started after the CREAMPIE epsidode from a few weeks back.
Sorry, just checked back. Matt posted his first picture BEFORE *that* round. Er, I think I did, didn't I? The spoilers would be boring if they were just for one purpose, and I like the mix of different things ... always in awe of Kirk's weird & wonderful beaters (or anyone else's, for that matter), I've enjoyed your pictures, Matt, and appreciate the chance to see if any of the words I got have been got by anyone else (they almost always have been by the time I get round to it.) Oh yes, and inane comments. All part of the mix.Matt Morrison wrote:Evidently no one is really backing me up, precisely because those people who don't give a fuck about spoilers threads are obviously not reading this discussion anyway.
.Matt Morrison wrote: EDIT: Badcock sends a kiss Kirk.
Yes, mate, any method of learning is great. I know I used to look at the words Chris posted in here and think "shit I don't know that word...and he knows it, I need to practise more" (HOUBARA rings a bell for some reason). It's all very well missing words on apterous but I always tell myself "Innis would have got that, Chris wouldn't miss that" and lexplorer tells me if they've offered it before. If they're posting in here it's an easy way to see if they know the word.Matt Morrison wrote: Also: the whole using-spoilers-threads-to-learn... I mean, really? Is this really good tactics? Spoilers threads must be bottom of the list of techniques for learning, surely...