Friday, April 11, 2014

EW:  As a rather avid geocacher myself, I wholly endorse the inclusion of the word "geocache" as an official Scrabble word.  But not everyone's happy about it.  It's not a very useful word, not a very common word, and redundant to a couple of other forms already in the pipeline. But a social media campaign by geocachers (including yours truly) saw to it that the word won the day.

And some folks are troubled:  "I'm angry that my weird, nerdy hobby has been coopted by other people's weird, nerdy hobby."

5 comments:

  1. Adam B.1:37 PM

    This is bullshit. Let's get some ZA.

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  2. mhgatti3:01 PM

    http://youtu.be/YzY-bMBHVlY

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  3. Eric J.9:16 PM

    I pronounce "geocache" like "geoduck."

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  4. ZA is already in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble-2/en_US/search.cfm#dictionary

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  5. Adam B.11:30 AM

    I know. :)

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