Dec 2, 2021 • 28M

EPISODE 5: A Meditation on Scrabble

Mike Vuolo talks to Word Freak author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble.

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Does Scrabble in fact celebrate language? Or does it merely reduce English to a set of mathematical symbols and probability calculations? Mike Vuolo talks to Word Freak author and competitive Scrabble player Stefan Fatsis about how a math game disguised as a word game nevertheless unlocks the essential beauty of the English language.

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