Concerning Wordle, but about meanings and associations / connotations of words involved therewith, rather than technicalities / strategies in playing the game. On Feb. 17th: on the way toward getting that day's word, I entered SLAVE: whereupon to my surprise, there popped up, "Not in word list"; and the game's "processing" of that word as normal, was denied. I can only assume that this is a function of the game's American / New York Times connection, and the great and all-pervading earnestness nowadays of a considerable sector of the population of those parts, over certain issues. I would not for a moment, deny that slavery is a wicked practice; nonetheless, what would seem from the above, to be attempts to forbid in light-hearted or amusement contexts, the use of words connected with it: strike me as not just unnecessary, but as "secular Puritanism" run completely mad.
And a couple of days before that, the answer-word was CAULK. My housemate and I, do the game daily; he was telling me that on that day, he noticed numerous people voicing objections -- sometimes outrage -- on the Net, about Wordle's taking for its answer-word, such a hugely obscure and outlandish one. We both wondered, what was these folks' problem? -- we reckoning that anyone who knows anything at all about DIY / construction matters, or boats, will be familiar with the word "caulk". Would be interested to hear whether other participants consider these sentiments of ours, to be justified -- or whether we are in this, annoyingly smug vocabulary-snobs; and Wordle out of order vis-a-vis their general clientele, in picking that word?
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