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Alec Rivers wrote:

Kirk Bevins wrote:So, in short, any word lists or word stems or classic rounds etc for me to print off and look at when exercising would be brill.

You could record yourself reading the list out, save it as an mp3 and put it on your iPod (or whatever) to listen to in the gym. That might be easier to concentrate on and, as a bonus, would reduce the risk of major nerd alerts.

THIS! I'm always in the gym and this is how I will beat him!

Dinos Sfyris wrote: and this is how I will beat him!

Never!

Inspired by Matt Bayfield's achievement in the Thread of Brag, could we have a "Top Multi-linguist" Statland page? Perhaps this would be just a sum of each player's highest standard 15 score in each of the available languages.

Matthew Tassier wrote:Inspired by Matt Bayfield's achievement in the Thread of Brag, could we have a "Top Multi-linguist" Statland page? Perhaps this would be just a sum of each player's highest standard 15 score in each of the available languages.

Ha. Top idea.

Matthew Tassier wrote:Inspired by Matt Bayfield's achievement in the Thread of Brag, could we have a "Top Multi-linguist" Statland page? Perhaps this would be just a sum of each player's highest standard 15 score in each of the available languages.

Ta-da. I've managed to grind my way up to 3rd without speaking any language competently except English (and that's arguable).

Brilliant - I throughly approve of this statshot! I'll have to see if I can pick up a few cheap points in Russian, Italian and Spanish and see how long I can stay in the top 3!

Well done to Mr AI on top spot...

Charlie Reams wrote:

Matthew Tassier wrote:Inspired by Matt Bayfield's achievement in the Thread of Brag, could we have a "Top Multi-linguist" Statland page? Perhaps this would be just a sum of each player's highest standard 15 score in each of the available languages.

Ta-da. I've managed to grind my way up to 3rd without speaking any language competently except English (and that's arguable).

No CSW? Also, if you upload the TWL lexicon I sent you a while back, you can have a similar page but exlusively in English-language dictionaries.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Matthew Tassier wrote:Inspired by Matt Bayfield's achievement in the Thread of Brag, could we have a "Top Multi-linguist" Statland page? Perhaps this would be just a sum of each player's highest standard 15 score in each of the available languages.

Ta-da. I've managed to grind my way up to 3rd without speaking any language competently except English (and that's arguable).

Sorry, I didn't understand a word of that.

I've been charged by person(s) unnamed to ask for Hebrew as an available lexicon.

Ian Volante wrote:I've been charged by person(s) unnamed to ask for Hebrew as an available lexicon.

I've been thinking about this for a while. Problem is, what do you put in the Vowels pile?

Charlie Reams wrote:

Ian Volante wrote:I've been charged by person(s) unnamed to ask for Hebrew as an available lexicon.

I've been thinking about this for a while. Problem is, what do you put in the Vowels pile?

After looking at Wikipedia, I see what you mean!

Ian Volante wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:

Ian Volante wrote:I've been charged by person(s) unnamed to ask for Hebrew as an available lexicon.

I've been thinking about this for a while. Problem is, what do you put in the Vowels pile?

After looking at Wikipedia, I see what you mean!

Indeed. Could you use a different way of dividing the letters? Voiced and unvoiced for example?

Why the addition of the flag? It is really off-putting. Staring at the letters, my eyes see a colourful flag and aren't focussing as much as they used to. Maybe I'll get used to it but I suggest only putting the flags as backgrounds when the language ISN'T English. If it is English, keep it white. This should keep everyone happy.

Perhaps this is another bizarre request but Ill put it forward anyway.

I would like lexplorer to tell me the probability of the word i am currently looking at appearing in a game, relative to the most common word of that length. So when you look up a word on lexplorer you can quickly judge weather it is worth knowing or not by the probability rating it has. This would also team up nicely with a "random word" button in lexplorer which lets you specify a word length and probability interval, and then takes you to any random word in the databse fitting thos criteria (a bit like the random page button on wikis).

I'm asking, because judging from this pageyou already have made the gadget which calculate probabilites of words relative to each other, so it would be nice to get another use out of it.

Kirk Bevins wrote:Why the addition of the flag? It is really off-putting. Staring at the letters, my eyes see a colourful flag and aren't focussing as much as they used to. Maybe I'll get used to it but I suggest only putting the flags as backgrounds when the language ISN'T English. If it is English, keep it white. This should keep everyone happy.

It's a subliminal advert for the BNP. Next it will be Nick Griffin's face faded on the letter tiles. I think white for English should be fine. The Union flag doesn't put me off but it does look ugly.

Jon O'Neill wrote:

Kirk Bevins wrote:Why the addition of the flag? It is really off-putting. Staring at the letters, my eyes see a colourful flag and aren't focussing as much as they used to. Maybe I'll get used to it but I suggest only putting the flags as backgrounds when the language ISN'T English. If it is English, keep it white. This should keep everyone happy.

It's a subliminal advert for the BNP. Next it will be Nick Griffin's face faded on the letter tiles. I think white for English should be fine. The Union flag doesn't put me off but it does look ugly.

I should add that I mean it looks ugly in the wrong proportions, faded like that.

Gavin Chipper wrote: Indeed. Could you use a different way of dividing the letters? Voiced and unvoiced for example?

That was my idea too (or something similar) but I haven't read up enough on the phonetics yet. Also I thought I had a Hebrew lexicon but actually I don't, so I'd need to find one of those too.

Jon O'Neill wrote:I think white for English should be fine.

Reported for racism.

Kirk Bevins wrote:Why the addition of the flag? It is really off-putting. Staring at the letters, my eyes see a colourful flag and aren't focussing as much as they used to. Maybe I'll get used to it but I suggest only putting the flags as backgrounds when the language ISN'T English. If it is English, keep it white. This should keep everyone happy.

I was wondering about this when I sent Charlie the flags but, as it's his application, I thought I'd let him decide on its inclusion. Maybe the flags could be optional (selected in Settings).

Alec Rivers wrote:Maybe the flags could be optional (selected in Settings).

Now this I like, with the default being no flag.

Kirk, I disagree with you about the flag

Alec Rivers wrote:

Kirk Bevins wrote:Why the addition of the flag? It is really off-putting. Staring at the letters, my eyes see a colourful flag and aren't focussing as much as they used to. Maybe I'll get used to it but I suggest only putting the flags as backgrounds when the language ISN'T English. If it is English, keep it white. This should keep everyone happy.

I was wondering about this when I sent Charlie the flags but, as it's his application, I thought I'd let him decide on its inclusion. Maybe the flags could be optional (selected in Settings).

Could Alecs idea be put into action? Not a fan of the flags so having the option of hiding them in the settings would be good

Jason Larsen wrote:Kirk, I disagree with you about the flag

No Kirk's right. Burn the flag for all its symbolism.

I agree with the previous comments about having a plain background for English as these are by far the vast majority of games played and keep the other flags for the much less played other language variants.

Our Irish/American/etc... friends may agree with me!

No, you all are British!

The Union Jack is your flag!

Marcus Hares wrote:Our Irish/American/etc... friends may agree with me!

Except that the lexicon is English, not Irish/American/etc.

Jason Larsen wrote:No, you all are British!

The Union Jack is your flag!

Yeah and Queen Elizabeth II is our queen - doesn't mean we want her face on apterous when we're playing does it?

Kirk Bevins wrote:Yeah and Queen Elizabeth II is our queen - doesn't mean we want her face on apterous when we're playing does it?

I'd like an option to see the face of our Queen whilst playing Apterous. She would fill me with pride and hopefully improve my performance.

Edwin Mead wrote:

Kirk Bevins wrote:Yeah and Queen Elizabeth II is our queen - doesn't mean we want her face on apterous when we're playing does it?

I'd like an option to see the face of our Queen whilst playing Apterous. She would fill me with pride and hopefully improve my performance.

Just sellotape a coin to the rim of your monitor, if you can afford to do so.

Ben Hunter wrote:

Edwin Mead wrote:

Kirk Bevins wrote:Yeah and Queen Elizabeth II is our queen - doesn't mean we want her face on apterous when we're playing does it?

I'd like an option to see the face of our Queen whilst playing Apterous. She would fill me with pride and hopefully improve my performance.

Just sellotape a coin to the rim of your monitor, if you can afford to do so.

Leave his rim out of this.

Edwin Mead wrote: I'd like an option to see the face of our Queen whilst playing Apterous. She would fill me with pride and hopefully improve my performance.

What about an option to see the face of Jason Larsen?

Well...

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Edwin Mead wrote: I'd like an option to see the face of our Queen whilst playing Apterous. She would fill me with pride and hopefully improve my performance.

What about an option to see the face of Jason Larsen?

THIS!^

I am at a loss for words right now, and I don't mean that in a good way.

You don't want to be Apterous' Next Top Model?

In superstats can we have a list of the most recent pencils gained per person please? Some of my latest goaty ones have been corkers.

Pencils announced in aptochat, I reckon.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Edwin Mead wrote: I'd like an option to see the face of our Queen whilst playing Apterous. She would fill me with pride and hopefully improve my performance.

What about an option to see the face of Jason Larsen?

In a weird coincidence I saw the face of Jason Larsen in an omelette I made the other night. I should really have taken a photo, it was awesome. But I ate it instead.

No

How about a 'Happenings Archive'?

how about a 10 letter and 7 number version.
Call it Junior Hyper.

Marc Meakin wrote:how about a 10 letter and 7 number version.
Call it Junior Hyper.

Or 9 letter and 6 number - that's Hyper Junior.

Gavin Chipper wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:how about a 10 letter and 7 number version.
Call it Junior Hyper.

Or 9 letter and 6 number - that's Hyper Junior.

Maybe call it Hyper Intermediate then.

I think the true nature of the lives of the players would be shown with an average time per day stat alongside the most time played stat.

Shaun Hegarty wrote:I think the true nature of the lives of the players would be shown with a average time per day stat alongside the most time played stat.

Please, no

Marc Meakin wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:

Marc Meakin wrote:how about a 10 letter and 7 number version.
Call it Junior Hyper.

Or 9 letter and 6 number - that's Hyper Junior.

Maybe call it Hyper Intermediate then.

Doesn't matter really - my post wasn't serious. But yeah, maybe your second name is better anyway.

Gavin Chipper wrote:But yeah, maybe your second name is better anyway.

Meakin?

Charlie Reams wrote:

Gavin Chipper wrote:But yeah, maybe your second name is better anyway.

Meakin?

No, youkun...

Just want to add voice to the anti flag campaign! Find it distracting.

Why do Top Dog games resume automatically? Me no like.

I did like the flags though.

Ian Volante wrote:Why do Top Dog games resume automatically? Me no like.

It's assumed that if you logged out with an unfinished Top Dog game, it was probably a crash or similar and you just want to get on with the game. What alternative use case do you have in mind?

Charlie Reams wrote:

Ian Volante wrote:Why do Top Dog games resume automatically? Me no like.

It's assumed that if you logged out with an unfinished Top Dog game, it was probably a crash or similar and you just want to get on with the game. What alternative use case do you have in mind?

Fair enough in the usual situation I suppose. I should have been clearer that there were a few times tonight when logging in and out a lot that I was wanting to do save the games until later when everything has settled down a bit, or when my opponent had appeared and it was tough enough to get one game window to work properly.

I was also getting two copies of the same game at times as well, but I suspect that's more to do with a backlog of game open/kill messages getting through to the server or whatever.

When you play top dog conundrum version and buzz incorrectly it is annoying when the clock runs down.

One thing i've noticed, which is trivial but still a change, is that when you solve the conundrum, it just goes off the screen now and ends the game. Also, in Hyper, the DC words on the score interface......sometimes if you leave the mouse arrow over the words, it shows you all the different alternatives when there are several of them, but if there are only 2 or 3, you have to maximise the game window in order to see them. Sorry if this sounds picky, they are just observations. Also, if you have a player 'muted', shouldn't this mean that they can't incessantly invite you to play them out of wilful annoyance?

Particularly in light of Happenings being dominated right now by loads of nameless nominations for Dale's high score game, I wonder if the text for GOTW nominations ought to be changed from:

Innis Carson's 134-170 game
with Dale Levell received a
nomination for Game of the Week.
4 minutes ago.

to:

Ian Volante nominated
Innis Carson 134-170 Dale Levell
for Game of the Week.
4 minutes ago.

or something similar. Makes Happenings read a lot better, but too many links? Hmm.

Just wondered if you could put a cap on the length of words generated by the 'words using...' tab in Lexplorer? Or an option to cap it. Right now it prints too many words because it uses the hyperdictionary, and it stops at 100 words. It'd be nice to type in say a seven letter word and see all the eights and nines that contain it.

Wondering if it would be possible to have a further breakdown of the most common words section in statland by number of vowels/ consonants.

So, for example when you look at the list of most common nines you can make it show only the most common nines with 3, 4 or 5 vowels. Because nines are most common in 4 vowel selections, and people most frequently pick 4 vowels, the whole list of most common nines only contains one selection which isnt 4 vowels (SERTPLIAN). So this feature would be great as a way to learn some nines which dont have 4 vowels but are still likely to come up, as well of course as words of shorter length with an irregular vowel/consonant ratio.

e.g. Successful attempt at Star 29 in The Ovapass. (on a game page)

Make The Ovapass or whatever link to the appropriate info page for that path.

Matt Morrison wrote:e.g. Successful attempt at Star 29 in The Ovapass. (on a game page)

Make The Ovapass or whatever link to the appropriate info page for that path.

There is no info page for paths though. ..

Charlie Reams wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:e.g. Successful attempt at Star 29 in The Ovapass. (on a game page)

Make The Ovapass or whatever link to the appropriate info page for that path.

There is no info page for paths though. ..

Oh, sorry. Meant like this one: http://www.apterous.org/starchart_path.php?path=4