Time for a new protocol?

[fpoodry at speakeasy.net]

Thanks for the sympathy, Jim!

But I am not feeling like it is much of an ordeal.  David actually sent me a definition for word #7 that had to do with the melancholy one feels at not being able to succeed at a project after multiple tries.  But I am having fun, I am not yet at the end of my list, and I am enjoying reading through the dictionary and adding to my list.  And Pierre hasn't said he knows HAMBA .....yet.....
;-)
Anyway, I don't want to change the rules YET, I am up for the challenge!

-Fran




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Moskowitz [mailto:jim at jimmosk.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 01:13 PM
> To: fictionary at plover.com
> Subject: Time for a new protocol?
> 
> I've been watching with growing amazement as Fran has suggested word 
> after word, none of which I knew, that all had to be disqualified 
> because they were familiar to someone.  I'm not sure what to suggest, 
> but I think we may need to make some change to our process so 
> word-choosers aren't put through this kind of ordeal.  Maybe we have 
> so many omnilects on the list that we should switch to only 
> disqualifying a word if more than one person knows it, and that 
> person is just out for the round?
> 
> Jim
>