Yet Another Wordle
I was on vacation when the Wordle craze started, but I still found it compelling. Thought I would take a look at how it viewed my blog posts for the last month. Pretty, and some interesting words jump out at me.
"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
I was on vacation when the Wordle craze started, but I still found it compelling. Thought I would take a look at how it viewed my blog posts for the last month. Pretty, and some interesting words jump out at me.
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