Mon Dieu! This is Nigel Richards, a New Zealander who won the French language Scrabble World Championship in 2015 despite not being able to speak the language.
Mon Dieu! This is Nigel Richards, a New Zealander who won the French language Scrabble World Championship in 2015 despite not being able to speak the language.
I mean he’s a pretty legendary player.
Won that title multiple times to be fair.
Hon1c on
This just shows French is just unintelligible babble.
StarbuckWoolf on
I can smell this picture.
sojuz151 on
Knowing how to pronounce french word is making it actively harder to spell it this language.
Primary-Driver-9062 on
I’d love to see French spectators faces
SmilinBob82 on
I thought he was Amish before reading it.
Gold_Kitchen_5711 on
I had a collegue who kept entire english sentences as strings of letters…
sneshny on
he did it in spanish recently as well
TaviTavi420 on
He looks like the kinda guy to memorize the French dictionary.
shaggscoob on
He looks exactly like someone who would memorize the French dictionary
TheDude-ness on
“simply”
SMStotheworld on
Knowing a language is a detriment in scrabble because you think about whether x or y is a word.
If it’s just gibberish you memorize, then you don’t think about that and distract yourself. It’s why top finishers for foreign language scrabble are often people who don’t speak the language. A number of thai people have similarly finished high in french scrabble
“word freak” by stefan fatsis has further detail on competitive scrabble. it’s much more interesting than it sounds.
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My youngest swallowed some scrabble tiles once, and we had to anxiously wait three days before his next vowel movement..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards
I mean he’s a pretty legendary player.
Won that title multiple times to be fair.
This just shows French is just unintelligible babble.
I can smell this picture.
Knowing how to pronounce french word is making it actively harder to spell it this language.
I’d love to see French spectators faces
I thought he was Amish before reading it.
I had a collegue who kept entire english sentences as strings of letters…
he did it in spanish recently as well
He looks like the kinda guy to memorize the French dictionary.
He looks exactly like someone who would memorize the French dictionary
“simply”
Knowing a language is a detriment in scrabble because you think about whether x or y is a word.
If it’s just gibberish you memorize, then you don’t think about that and distract yourself. It’s why top finishers for foreign language scrabble are often people who don’t speak the language. A number of thai people have similarly finished high in french scrabble
“word freak” by stefan fatsis has further detail on competitive scrabble. it’s much more interesting than it sounds.
Old Sheldon
What a treat!
Legend!
Justin Long really let himself go.
He won the spanish one too.
So dumb but so smart at the same time.
He looks 23 and 83 at the same time.
Simply memorized the entire French Dictionary
Simply
I think someone needs an English dictionary
“Simply memorized the entire French dictionary”