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1 posted on 12/13/2024 3:02:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Impressive, but let’s see him do that using the
language of the Ojibwe Indians of Canada.

The word
miinibaashkiminasiganibiitoosijiganibadagwiingweshiganibakwez-higan

is 66 letters long and describes Blueberry Pie.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 3:24:17 PM PST by lee martell
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[“Just mentioning his name makes me tingle; he’s a phenomenon,” Eric Salvador Tchouyo, a world champion Scrabble player from Cameroon, told Radio France Internationale.

“I often say he would make a good doctoral thesis topic for students in medicine because it’s incomprehensible that someone could have such memory capacity in a language he doesn’t speak.”

Describing Richards, 57, as an “exceptional” person, he noted that whenever Richards turned up at a tournament, the other players knew they were playing for second place at best.

“When Nigel Richards sits at a table, everyone loses their nerves, even the biggest champions,” he said. “Playing against Nigel Richards is like playing against a computer.”]


4 posted on 12/13/2024 4:16:38 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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