Tag: #languagegames

How Wordle Went 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 If you’re at all involved in academic twitter, you’ve probably come across a pattern of green and yellow squares that looks something like this. No, your friends, classmates, and colleagues haven’t joined a cult, and no, these posts aren’t some sort of secret nerd code you’re not privy to. Rather, they’re result sheets for…Continue Reading How Wordle Went 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A Few Words about ‘Gairglo’, the Welsh Language ‘Wordle’, by Steve Morris

This is a translation of a short comment piece (in Welsh) by Applied Linguistics Honorary Research Fellow Steve Morris which appeared on the Golwg 360 website in February 2020 It relates to a Welsh language version of ‘Wordle’ – ‘Gairglo’ – created by Dr Rodolfo Piskorski, a Brazilian who has learnt Welsh and was the…Continue Reading A Few Words about ‘Gairglo’, the Welsh Language ‘Wordle’, by Steve Morris