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Inanna wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:39 pm
elengil wrote:
RoseMorninStar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:52 pm What the heck?? What are you guys doing?
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I'm gonna go with 'deleting the first 2 lines of blocks before hitting 'submit'?'
But it shows you right or wrong only after you hit enter.

I meant it as a joke - that before they posted the results they just deleted the non-correct rows in the reply box...
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Oh, right. duh. :oops:
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Wordle 215 4/6

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Double letter caught me
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Hidden text.
Me too.
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Wordle 215 3/6

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Hidden text.
Every now and then I wonder how this word made its way into English. To speakers of Slavic languages, it clearly means a thing that performs work, but in English it's meaningless.
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Wordle 215 6/6

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eep that was close.
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Frelga, regarding your query about the etymology of today's word:
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It is Czech in origin. The word robota means forced labor. Karel Čapek used it in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920. Here's the text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59112/5 ... 9112-h.htm
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Narya,
Hidden text.
I know where the word came from, I'm just surprised it became adopted. How many English speakers read Čapek? Even I often confuse him with Jaroslav Hašek, whom everyone should read because he is -ing hilarious.
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Yeah, it caught me today too. (Plus I was sloppy)
Interesting etymology!

Wordle 215 5/6

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Wordle 215 3/6; but I read Al's spoiler.

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:rofl: Meet Lewdle - the naughty 5 letter wordle, and sweardle, with only "four letter words".

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/ ... ame-wordle
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am trying them! Await!

ETA: Well, I obviously do not know enough of these words. Or I don't know if they are classified thus.
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Wordle 216 3/6

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Wordle 216 4/6

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Wordle 216 4/6

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Wordle 216 5/6

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Not one single yellow.
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Co-opting Al’s first word.

Wordle 216 3/6

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Wordle 216 5/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Inanna wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 3:41 pm Co-opting Al’s first word.
I stole one of yours too. Using POINT and MAYBE now.
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Frelga,
Hidden text.
did you try Trick and Crick first?
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