Talk:Wordiff: Difference between revisions

:: There are hundreds of simple words, surprisingly a large number of plurals that are not in that dictionary.   It seems silly to lose a game because the plural of   '''tin'''   isn't in the dictionary.   One solution, of course, is to use a decent dictionary,   but how is anybody to know that a large number of (common) words (that '''are''' words) aren't in a particular dictionary?     It doesn't seem/feel right that a player should lose because a word isn't included, moreover, a common word.   I lost a game when the first word presented was   '''irs'''.     ... Couldn't use   ''ors'',   ''firs'',   ''its'',   ''airs'',   ''ids'',   ''IVs'',   ''irk'',   ''ins'',   ''mirs'',   or   ''sirs''.       I missed   ''IRA''   and   ''ire''.     Bummer.     As a sidenote,   when I was playing Scrabble (®) in my younger and leaner days,   I had quite the huge (mental) collection of three-letter words).   But I digress.     I was toying with the idea that if a word isn't in the dictionary,   that the player could attempt another word.   Eventually, the player would run out of words that   ''are''   in the dictionary.   But that would change the flavor and/or tone of the   ''wordiff''   game quite a bit, I would think.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 15:30, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

::: Ah. Hi Gérard, when playi gplaying with my partner, we either agree what's acceptable, or Google the word when unsure. In the Python source I swapped from the ~25K words of unixdict.txt to another dictionary with over 400K words.