[OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

[Aditya Vishwakarma]

Scrabble implementation in arabic
http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/

other foreign language tilesets
http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/index.html#foreignscrab

However,  i am yet to find any implementation of scrabble in Hindi. I think
Hindi would be a too complicated to implement but would ask some hindi
professors i know for confirmations.


On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritiki at uoregon.edu>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> >  > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma
> >  > <adi.vishwakarma at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology student at NSIT,
> Delhi.
> >  > >
> >  > > I am working on making a Scrabble game as a GSoC project called
> Wordsmith.
> >  > > The wiki page is located here -
> >  > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble)<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith%28scrabble%29>
> >  >
> >  > Does Scrabble exist in Hindi or any other language of India?
> >
> >  Sure.
> >
> >  Either you place one syllable per square or separate the consonants and
> vowels
> >  into disjoint glyphs (probably looks funny but remains readable).
>
> That sounds like you're making it up, since you say "probably looks
> funny". You couldn't make a set with enough tiles to hold the several
> hundred possible syllables, and the phonology doesn't work to combine
> random syllables into words of any length. Hindi in separated letters
> would look more than funny.
>
> होली would end up looking like ह  ो ल  ी, or
> ह
>  ो
> ल
>  ी
>
> I'm asking whether anybody has _seen_ Scrabble in an Indian language.
>
> >  > I know
> >  > how we could support Scrabble in any linear alphabetic writing such
> as
> >  > Cyrillic alphabet, but I have trouble imagining it in Arabic,
> Chinese,
> >  > Amharic, or Japanese kana.
> >
> >  I don't know what you would do with Chinese and Japanese kana.
>
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