When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal
Learned a new word today!
The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.
When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:
Alright. Imma gonna work on a board game that involves hippoppoppotamussesses and come up with all sorts of ogonalistic words to describe the various moves.Khemehekis wrote: ↑27 Jul 2023 22:56When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal
Learned a new word today!
The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.
You're welcome.elemtilas wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 05:05Alright. Imma gonna work on a board game that involves hippoppoppotamussesses and come up with all sorts of ogonalistic words to describe the various moves.Khemehekis wrote: ↑27 Jul 2023 22:56When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal
Learned a new word today!
The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.
Thanks mate!
When I was in school, I played nim against a computer at the Lawrence Hall of Science.
I've heard of Nim, I think. Isn't it the one with the six dots in a hexagon?Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 14:59When I was in school, I played nim against a computer at the Lawrence Hall of Science.
The computer beat me every time.
In Inner Bruise, I made "nim" a slang word for idiot. Like "nimwit".
Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.
Thanks.Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 15:25Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.
You're welcome.Üdj wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 15:55Thanks.Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 15:25 Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.
Ah! So you keep track of the number of each word? Cool! Is word number 31,416 significant somehow?Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 16:27You're welcome.Üdj wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 15:55Thanks.Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 15:25 Nim is the game with lines/bars, and at each turn, a player has the choice to take away one, two, or three lines. The player stuck with taking the last line away loses.
Nim is called paged in Kankonian. According to my dictionary spreadsheet file, paged was the 21,538th word to be added to Kankonian. That would mean it was probably added some time in 2010.
Divide by 10,000 and you'll have your answer.
oh my goodness...wow! How did I not notice!
If I continue on my present Laakitlantu word-making rate of around 5.86 words per day (which I may not, because I have other languages too), it'll take me around 14.68 years to reach that point. It's a level of dedication to which I doubt I can compare!Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 16:53 The whole "conlanging beast" thing was a joke started by Tanni (a now-banned user and one of the people who wrote to Ursula) when I reached that word:
viewtopic.php?p=95178&#p95178
CBBizens have come back to it, again and again.
You'll have one on me if you continue at that pace. It took me almost 16 years to reach the 31,416th word.Üdj wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 17:09If I continue on my present Laakitlantu word-making rate of around 5.86 words per day (which I may not, because I have other languages too), it'll take me around 14.68 years to reach that point. It's a level of dedication to which I doubt I can compare!Khemehekis wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 16:53 The whole "conlanging beast" thing was a joke started by Tanni (a now-banned user and one of the people who wrote to Ursula) when I reached that word:
viewtopic.php?p=95178&#p95178
CBBizens have come back to it, again and again.
Btw, the definition of hippogonal that I read was, "neither orthogonal nor diagonal on the chess board", which fits the (m,n) definition, if you assume that they can neither be zero nor equal to each other. And the "hippoppoppotamussesses" is a fairy chess piece that moves like a knight but only if it is able to capture, at least according to the Wikipedia list.elemtilas wrote: ↑29 Jul 2023 05:05Alright. Imma gonna work on a board game that involves hippoppoppotamussesses and come up with all sorts of ogonalistic words to describe the various moves.Khemehekis wrote: ↑27 Jul 2023 22:56When I read that post, I looked it up on Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippogonal
Learned a new word today!
The hippo- part comes from the fact that knights are shaped like horses.
Thanks mate!