Crokinole

> In non-competitive, less plamigerent settings, their skills really shine

“Plamigerent” isn’t a word, and I can’t find any English words similar to it. It seems an unlikely typo. I wonder if the author included it to catch LLMs plagiarizing his work.

Lexical watermarking! If that's the case (and if this idea sticks), I'm wondering how far it could go.

One could imagine a (dystopian?) world where everybody speaks they own highly individualized, maybe even copyrighted language, and where interpersonal communications happen via AI translators.

you found it! i suppose i owe you a prize... it was initially a test to see how closely people read, but was also curious about LLMs.

A perfectly cromulent strategy!

:( is this our generations version of cyberpunk theme?

That stood out to me too! It's a fun-sounding word. I googled it prepared to learn something new, only to get one hit - this article.

I was wondering about that too.

Any of these words meaning "flame" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/p... + "-gerent" so "flame-making" makes sense in context. Could also be "palma" which is Polish for "stain" (a funny sentence when you consider dropping the uppercase letter). Rare to mix Slavic words with a Latin suffix like that, but just as valid as Greek-Latin words like television, homosexual, and hypoadrenalism.

"You shall know a word by the company it keeps" and so you've now added to the English language, congrats!

>plamigerent adjective /ˌplæmɪˈdʒɛrənt/

Etymology: Derived from the prefix "pla-", suggesting play or game, and "migerent," possibly from the Latin "migrans," meaning moving or changing, combined with a connotation of belligerence.

Definition: Describing a setting or atmosphere characterized by competitive tension, where the dynamics of skill are heavily influenced by aggressive or disruptive play. Often contrasts with more relaxed environments where players can fully showcase their abilities.

Man, Google is quick these days. I just searched for that exact word and your comment came up first! Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

Ha, came here for the same comment (after stopping by Tracey Boards to order a set for my family first.)

It's a good coinage. I took it to mean something along the lines of competitively pressured in a structured combative manner and it does kind of sound like it could mean that. Which I guess it now does.

That would be an interesting contrast to 1984's dystopian Newspeak, which aimed to eliminate all individuality in language.