i would have 4 homes in melbourne, paris, edinburgh and new york. and every year i would travel in a loop between them, hitting each tennis grand slam along the way.
ah, dreamlife, you sustain me.
September 9, 2010
September 4, 2010
letters for thought...
so i was watching the us open tonight, a match between james blake and novak djokovic. after staring at their names for two hours, i thought, "damn, djoker (as i affectionately call him), your name would be kick ass in scrabble! it's so full of interesting letters!"
which led me to ask, what makes a letter interesting? is it simply it's rarity of use? i don't feel like k is a particularly underused letter, especially in internet speak, and yet i find it rather appealing. perhaps it's the multitude of angles. maybe it's having angles at all, because v, w, z and x are certainly all interesting. though of course, they are pretty rarely used.
q of course is at the top of the list, simply because it requires the presence of u. expect for qatar! and probably some physics words.
y isn't particularly interesting, but when found in the middle of a word, often seems intriguing. see: scythe, stylus, psyche, etc.
so i dunno. perhaps it's just the foreign-ness of djokovic's name, the silent d, the double v's. all i know for sure is that his name is worth at least 37 points in scrabble, which is nothing to scoff at.
which led me to ask, what makes a letter interesting? is it simply it's rarity of use? i don't feel like k is a particularly underused letter, especially in internet speak, and yet i find it rather appealing. perhaps it's the multitude of angles. maybe it's having angles at all, because v, w, z and x are certainly all interesting. though of course, they are pretty rarely used.
q of course is at the top of the list, simply because it requires the presence of u. expect for qatar! and probably some physics words.
y isn't particularly interesting, but when found in the middle of a word, often seems intriguing. see: scythe, stylus, psyche, etc.
so i dunno. perhaps it's just the foreign-ness of djokovic's name, the silent d, the double v's. all i know for sure is that his name is worth at least 37 points in scrabble, which is nothing to scoff at.
Labels:
interesting letters,
novak djokovic,
scrabble,
tennis,
word nerd
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