Wednesday, July 16, 2008

DAMN YOU, WORD CHALLENGE!

I have unfortunately been sucked into the world of WORD CHALLENGE! For those of you who don't already share my obsession, Word Challenge is a game found on FACEBOOK. It scrambles six letters, and you unscramble them to formulate words.


It isn't the actual game that is agonizing. It's their insane ranking system that torments me! Once you sign up for this game, the ranks of your fellow Word Challenge zombie facebook friends appear. The first time I played, I was informed that I had the verbal capacity of a playground bully. The next time I played I apparently had the vocabulary of a drill sergeant, then a cheerleader, then a salesman, then a student, a teacher, and finally a lawyer!




That's been my progression so far. If you'll notice, this game thinks that cheerleaders have a greater vernacular than drill sergeants. "What comes after LAWYERS," you ask? It appears that a film director arranges words better than lawyers do! Shocking? Well, so is the following:


  • Lawyer
  • Director
  • Librarian
  • Scribe
  • Physician
  • Journalist
  • Politician
  • Professor
  • Philosopher
  • Poet

Politicians? Really? Have these people heard George W. Bush speak? All this time I thought I should be aspiring to speak like a librarian, when I obviously should have been reaching to be a poet. Oh world, how funny you are.

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