[travel scrabble - how serendipitous]
Today London transport was oddly quiet and I made it from Waterloo station to Kings Cross in about 22 minutes. With a couple of sprints I managed to catch an earlier train from St. Pancras to Leicester - woo hoo! That leaves me plenty of time to prepare for this afternoon's discussion on The Future of Language at the IoCT with Nadine Fleischer - editor/designer, Wordrobe
Simon Perril, Poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at De Montfort University, Hugo Worthy, Writer and Archivist, Chris Joseph, Chair, and yours truly. As I settled into my train seat, adjusted my earphones to the melodious bonobo, and gazed out at the whizzing scenery, I prepared to (mentally) go over my thoughts on txt spk. Rather than concentrate on facts and figures (did you know in Dec. 06 Brits sent 4.4 BILLION txts), a reflection in the window caught my eye. A man at the table across the aisle had brought out a travel scrabble pack and was lovingly adjusting the bag of letters and getting ready for a solo game. I couldn't help but squeak: "scrabble?" (I'm never quite sure how much talking to strangers is too much on public transport in this country). He smiled knowingly and invited me for a game. Turns out he was pretty damn good and he's French so we enjoyed a bilingual game. How's that for practising my presentation...ho hum.....
Simon Perril, Poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at De Montfort University, Hugo Worthy, Writer and Archivist, Chris Joseph, Chair, and yours truly. As I settled into my train seat, adjusted my earphones to the melodious bonobo, and gazed out at the whizzing scenery, I prepared to (mentally) go over my thoughts on txt spk. Rather than concentrate on facts and figures (did you know in Dec. 06 Brits sent 4.4 BILLION txts), a reflection in the window caught my eye. A man at the table across the aisle had brought out a travel scrabble pack and was lovingly adjusting the bag of letters and getting ready for a solo game. I couldn't help but squeak: "scrabble?" (I'm never quite sure how much talking to strangers is too much on public transport in this country). He smiled knowingly and invited me for a game. Turns out he was pretty damn good and he's French so we enjoyed a bilingual game. How's that for practising my presentation...ho hum.....
Labels: conference, digital literacy, games
posted by Jess @ 14:08
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Gosh, written words everywhere - a travel scrabble on a train in England. And we all know how you love that game, and even more, how you love to win! Definitely a pleasant way to keep you focussed on words. Did you use text-message words in the game, or would they be too short?
txt spk 4 scrabble?! how sinful! nope. we refrained and stuck to normal words - in both French and English. txt spk would def. be too short but maybe that would be a good way to use up my last "q." We only had 50 minutes to play our game and happily I won (and you know how much I like to win at scrabble!) 403 to 89....then I was ready for my presentation.
I enjoy Scrabble too. Maybe we can play via e-mail - one word at a time? But in English.
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