bloggie blog » Games http://www.kevinashworth.com/blog kevinashworth.com: bloggie blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:34:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Settlers http://www.kevinashworth.com/blog/archives/483 http://www.kevinashworth.com/blog/archives/483#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:29:37 +0000 Kevin http://www.kevinashworth.com/blog/?p=483 Several years ago, my friends Doug and Sarah introduced me to The Setters of Catan. With beginner’s luck, I won that night. I played it many times in Boston after that, and also with my family. I’m pretty good, but usually don’t win. So many times I’m one card, one roll, one thingy — just “this much” — from victory. Good times!

It’s been popular amongst board-games people for a while. (My people are board-games people.) Now it’s really taken off, according to this article in Wired. If you’ve played “Catan,” you’ll enjoy the article.

The real question on my mind is not addressed in this article: How do you pronounce “settlers”?

The dictionary allows two pronunciations (settler |ˈsetl-ər; ˈsetlər|), but if you use the second pronunciation and are one of those people that have a very strong glottal stop between the two syllables, you are a rube and I will take you down, bitch!

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