Yesterday's Semantle chat

[InMySpareTime]

A thread to discuss the word from yesterday's Semantle game without clogging the main thread about today's.
As it's a day late, there's no risk of Spoilers.

https://semantle.novalis.org/ is the game, but we're all about yesterday's word (which at the start of the thread was "Generous")

I'm still fizzing with anger at myself that I gave up on Tuesday's word (selection, was it?!) so am very pleased to have seen bolognese at 325 for generous, it proves how freakin' difficult this game is!

It will be great to have a place to discuss it openly!

Saves clogging up the main thread anyway.
Looking down the word lists I'm starting to think that the Internet has everything except a spellchecker!
Geat FFS 🙄

Can you see yesterday's word list, today? I find it frustrating to be unable to discuss today's word when I'm looking at it. By the time it's yesterdays word, I've moved on! Maybe we need a thread to discuss today's word "with spoilers".

I might screenshot today's word list to discuss tomorrow. I should really plan these things better.

@picklemewalnuts

Can you see yesterday's word list, today? I find it frustrating to be unable to discuss today's word when I'm looking at it. By the time it's yesterdays word, I've moved on! Maybe we need a thread to discuss today's word "with spoilers".

Yes you can! Scroll down to FAQ and there’s a clicky link

And here’s the link
semantle.novalis.org/nearby_1k/Z2VuZXJvdXM=

Ooh, brill @Bytrgrewd thanks 😊

Opening bid:
Why is "souper" at 906?

And 'mannerable' at 917?

I think you have to think at population level, rather than individual level. Like Covid restrictions, they don't make sense for individuals, only for great masses of people!

It reads like a list of unlovable and loveable qualities!

oh yeah... why was kind a cold word when answer was generous?

I really lucked out on that one with lots of early green words, but you get thrown off with some of the colds.

Don't get me started about how answer = field (some days previous) wasn't close to crop, agriculture or wheat...

Today's answer ... well ! I would say it's a literary / novel word but not how usually used nowadays, I guess.

And "cover" wasn't close to answer = 'surrounding' ... really?! Pah.

Crop was a cold word for field too

So for me the diversion was often about sport.
So sport field, lots of sport words, but crop ie farming doesn't make the grade.
And surrounding was about environments more than about actual covers. So the shrouding words were about wrapping something rather than covering it.

Today's is interesting, with some really high words that are quite tenuously linked imo. I mean, the primary use of the S word isn't political. My first green word, which led me to the answer eventually, was Queen. So not really connected in any way! Which became apparent when all royalty words drew a blank!

I'm not convinced...

I'm learning a lot of new words from these lists anyway. I now know that a stong is a parcel of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre.
I did find some non-bolognese foods (there's a stroganoff in there too), but no sign of "portion" or "helping" which must surely be in any generous -->food sentence.

Yesterdays list for discussion.
https://semantle.novalis.org/nearby_1k/c3BlYWtlcg==

Chmn is definitely not a word.

Stero is higher than speak. How?
What even is Stero?

I'm convinced there are typos and abbreviations in the list. So stero for stereo.

The list choice is from newspaper text IIRC, these people have access to spellcheckers.
The game is not made easier by having a proportion of each list taken by non-words and erroneous misspelt words.
I don't even know what urinator was trying to be.

It's an obsolete word for diver, apparently, in addition to the obvious. But that hardly seems relevant.

sterography is a thing, right?
a form of communication

Google says no, there's a wedding photographer called sterography.
Stereography is making those "3D" photos that need the red green paper specs to see them.
Steganography is hiding secret messages inside other messages in code.

I must say, I don't like it. I'm trying to find a rationale where it works, but there really isn't one.

It's not supposed to be related to spelling, so the target word and the 999 word today should not have happened.

That said, although 999 is a red herring, the other words would get you there anyway.

Some oddities on yesterday's list, it seems that circle is more an action than a shape in the dataset:
https://semantle.novalis.org/nearby_1k/Y2lyY2xl

is circle something to do with the game of horeshoes? Was horseshoes the mystery theme? I understand this theme was discussed on reddit but I'm not competent enough with Reddit to find the right thread.