I agree, somewhat. Though I *would* sacrifice a point or two (or maybe
12, depending on whom I'm playing, and where we are in the game) to
play pongids instead of dopings or filmset over leftism.
Though my point was not about what to play, but rather about how to
rank words by playability. I think everyone can agree--you should
learn all the words, or at least the 135K up through 10 letters. The
question is, what order should you learn them in?
If you're still learning 7s, I'd guess you're not playing GI Joel and
Adam Logan, and learning more obscure words (even some obscurer
anagrams of more common words) could help your game, depending on your
opponents' playing styles. Note that playing more obscure words not
only increases the chance of drawing an unsuccessful challenge, it can
scare an opponent off challenging some obvious phonies (esp. if they
are relatively low-point dumps).
On 4/11/06, Ten Den, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I thought about that originally when I was doing my version of the list.
>
> Although it would be a fun list to study, but I saw two problems with that:
>
> Guys like GI Joel, and Adam Logan are not human.
> It is not generally to your advantage to try to play something that
> might get challenged by sacrificing position or points for it. I wouldn't
> want to influence my brain to think that way.
>
> Chris
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