He didn’t need to in order to win the Scrabble and indeed, speaking a foreign language needs a lot more than memorising a dictionary, though that in itself was a massive accomplishment.
Depends how much of the dictionary he memorised! I'd think memorising a dictionary covet to cover would be more work than learning to speak a conversational level of French, but I guess he didn't actually have to memorise the whole dictionary, just enough to have a decent number of words to play in scrabble
Nigel Richards. Check out Will Anderson's youtube channel, he covers pro scrabble matches in the style of chess commentary, and he has a lot of videos featuring Nigel
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TheWordBotcher@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Guy made it his mission to beat the French using their own language while still refusing to speak it.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 2y
I can't think of anything more French!
Dave@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 2y
I thought this sounded familiar. The article is from 2015!
FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 2y
Wow, my error not seeing the article date, sorry about that. It popped up on my feed this am. Better look more carefully in the future.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 2y
Haha all good, an interesting story none the less. It's been over 9 years, think he speaks French yet?
FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 2y
He didn’t need to in order to win the Scrabble and indeed, speaking a foreign language needs a lot more than memorising a dictionary, though that in itself was a massive accomplishment.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 2y
Depends how much of the dictionary he memorised! I'd think memorising a dictionary covet to cover would be more work than learning to speak a conversational level of French, but I guess he didn't actually have to memorise the whole dictionary, just enough to have a decent number of words to play in scrabble
Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
Nigel Richards. Check out Will Anderson's youtube channel, he covers pro scrabble matches in the style of chess commentary, and he has a lot of videos featuring Nigel
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Searle would say he's brainless.
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
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