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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">> I don't know which texts were used to get the letter frequencies, but</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">> I'm wondering if using the larger volume of texts that we have now a</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma;">
<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> > days would change them any...</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma;">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">At the risk of showcasing my ignorance with regards to Scrabble:</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma;">
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">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?).</span><br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF423101"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> David Holt [kenjutsuka@live.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 01, 2013 22:14<br>
<b>To:</b> tlhIngan Hol mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com> wrote:<br>
> > I got it from DloraH, who got it from janSIy, who I believe originated it.<br>
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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.<br>
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janSIy<br>
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