[Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble

[Tim Stoffel]

Robyn,
    Could you analyze your own writings? I bet that would give a good
letter frequency representation.

Tim Stoffel

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On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 14:09 -0800, Robyn Stewart wrote:
> That's an interesting question. Is the letter frequency distribution
> of a large piece of text different than the frequency distribution in
> a complete wordlist of that language?  I think a list compiled just
> from TKD affix and vocabulary lists might competitively
> under-represent qaghwI', as it's in so many affixes. 
> 
> I found a shortage of qaghwI'mey during game play, but the
> artificiality of the arbitrarily high scores for tlh and ng didn't
> bother me much. It was just a luck thing.
> 
> - Qov
> 
> At 13:21 '?????' 1/1/2013, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
> > At the risk of showcasing my ignorance with regards to Scrabble:
> > 
> > Does one actually need a corpus to decide character values for
> > Scrabble? I imagine that a lexicon along with the rules for
> > appending affixes would suffice, as the deciding factor is what
> > words can be formed, rather than what words are most commonly used
> > (or do rare/difficult words weigh more heavily in that
> > calculation?).
> > 
> > 
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > From: David Holt [kenjutsuka at live.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 22:14
> > To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble
> > 
> > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Alan Anderson
> > <aranders at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > > > I got it from DloraH, who got it from janSIy, who I believe
> > originated it.
> > 
> > I didn't originate it, but I may have been the first one to bring a
> > converted set to the qep'a'.  I got the frequencies and values off
> > this very list and I no longer remember who did the calculations or
> > came up with the values.  It was probably 15 years ago.  The game is
> > fun, but the scores are somewhat artificial since the point values
> > were based on rarity of English letters and so it's weird to have
> > common letters like <tlh> be worth so many points.  I think any new
> > calculations should be based on Qov's <nuq bop bom>, since that is a
> > large piece of original tlhIngan Hol writing.
> >  
> > janSIy
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