Эрудит с Друзьями - Word challenge & brain training

Engage with friends or connect with random players online, form words from the given letters, and exchange ideas in the chat!

This activity is not only entertaining but also beneficial! Scrabble is an intellectual game that enhances attention and creativity while significantly enriching vocabulary. You can easily verify any word by checking its meaning in the integrated dictionary with just one click. Your success in Erudite correlates with your mental skills, passion for the Russian language, and of course, your knowledge! Strengthen your logic and creativity through Scrabble, as this offers an exceptional brain workout for two players online!

Demonstrate your expertise and challenge your opponents—never before has a word game been this thrilling and competitive when playing with friends online!

Game Highlights:

• Play with friends from VKontakte and Odnoklassniki in intellectual challenges

• Compete in online matches with friends

• Extensive and frequently updated dictionary

• Quick online chat feature with other players

• Scrabble available in Russian

• Attractive and modern design

• Vibrant themes that can be customized to fit your mood

The game does not start or there are various oddities.

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What sources of information are absolutely not suitable as evidence of the suitability of words for the game?

1. Dictionaries in which colloquial, dialectal and slang words are not separated from other words

- Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language by Dahl

- Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language by Max Vasmer

- ...

2. Slang and obscene dictionaries

- Dictionaries of Russian argot

- Dictionaries of youth slang

- Dictionaries of Russian obscenities

- ...

3. "Cool" encyclopedias

- http://absurdopedia.wikia.com ("Absurdopedia")

- http://lurkmore.ru ("Lurkomorye")

- ...

4. "Grandmother, grandfather, teacher, ... told"

Why is Dahl's dictionary not evidence of the suitability of words for the game?

"Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language" by Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl was first published in the mid-19th century (vol. 1-4, 1863 - 1866). I will quote the annotation to the modern edition:

"Unlike the academic dictionaries of that time, it contains the vocabulary of living folk speech, collected by the author in different regions of Russia, as well as phraseology, proverbs, sayings, comparisons, etc.

To this day, despite the existence of predecessor dictionaries, dialect, diachronic, jargon dictionaries, multi-volume modern lexicographic descriptions, from time to time it turns out that Dahl's Dictionary reflects the Russian language more accurately or fully. This is a collection of Russian vocabulary, related mainly to dialects and professional jargons, compiled by a self-taught amateur, who repeatedly called for writing as we speak, not to preach literacy as salvation, not to make any sacrifices for its universal establishment, who advocated for the complete deliverance of the Russian language from foreign borrowings.

The dictionary contains a certain amount of unreliable material (occasional words), sometimes sins against grammar (for example, a prefix is regularly called a preposition), but paradoxically accurately conveys both the linguistic realities of the 19th century and the expressiveness of dialects that still exist today."

Thus, Dahl's dictionary is a collection of all sorts of dialects from 150 years ago. According to the rules of the game, dialect words are not accepted.

Example of an entry from Dahl's dictionary:

"KUR m. rooster, peven, petel, kochet: hen, chicken, in places lower and Cossack. kurita, master. kureta f. chicken, chicken diminishes. female chicken, rooster; female black grouse and other birds of the chicken genus. Chicken enlarged. large, Dutch chicken; chickens pl. roosters and chickens."

If you look at any standard dictionaries, then for a third of this list of "chicken" words, overheard by Dahl 150 years ago in some villages, there are notes indicating the inadmissibility of the words according to the rules of the game: "local", "regional", "colloquial", "lower". And the second third of the list of "chicken" words, in general, is not in the dictionaries of the 20th-21st centuries. Although modern explanatory dictionaries are full of obsolete, but previously literary words of the Russian language (with the notes "old." or "outdated.")

Or here is a colloquial word "бут" according to all normal dictionaries, which is overgrown with a bunch of colloquial-dialectal variations:

"ПУЗО cf. бутзочка, бутозочка, бутизще; убозро, убоздро; брюхо, жаш, чево, Тезво, кезво, бетостная, with all entrails and covers, especially stomach and intestines. Grew a убозо, got rich and got fat. To fill a убозо, to eat one's fill. Not only убозо thinks about food: even a thin belly cannot live without food. A Russian slipped under a Frenchman's убозо (1812). A swollen place on something, a hump or a box. A убозо of a barrel, the middle, where it is thicker. A wall bulged out with a убозо. Бузо balalaika, bandura, rounded part of the body. Pazu sail. Pazudro, sib. head part of the belly in animals, below the navel. Pazu m. old. bread measure. And the replenishment took esmy ten pazus rye (maybe of another root). Pazusty, pazusty, paunchy, big-bellied. Pazusty horse. Pazusty jug, bottle. Pazusty barrel. Pazusty gentleman. Pazuzy m. pazunya f. pazunyk, pazutyk, pazunyshcha, puzdr+kha ob. chicken. pazudy, pazudy person. Pazuzy, Kamchadal. whole, uncleaned fish, for winter storage (isn't that a Kamchadal word?). Pazuzyan fish, or pazutka, similar to an inflated bladder...."

Or here is another typical example of an entry from Dahl's dictionary:

"KORNIZ, see cornice."

Write "cornice" with an "a", write it with an "o". Dahl doesn't care at all.

Recommendations:

Look for definitions of words in explanatory dictionaries or encyclopedias compiled in the 20th or 21st centuries, and if possible, check the spelling in the spelling dictionary: http://www.gramota.ru/slovari/dic/.