Talk:acorn game

RFV discussion: August–December 2023
"A game played with acorns by the Miwok people of California, USA." (If it's actually attestable, then needs a real definition describing the type of game.) I think one of Luciferwildcat's socks must have created this. Equinox ◑ 23:31, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, this was created by a LW sock. His later socks were focused on finding dictionaries of specific American Indian languages and then pretending to be an expert on those languages. This is a prime example of the stupidity that results. The whole purpose of this entry is to host the Central Sierra Miwok translation, which was copied from a CSM dictionary (AFAIK there's only one). I'm sure LW had no clue what that term meant, but felt he had to pretend that he did. I'm also sure the Spanish translation is something bogus he made up. Based on this discussion of cognates I think the game in question is one where half-acorns are used as dice: you put them in a basket, shake it, throw them on a surface, and count how many land flat-side-up vs. round-side-up. Other peoples in the area did the same, or used empty acorn cups or native walnuts the same way. I can't really see how anyone would use this specific term for specifically the CSM version of the game except as a reference to the CSM-dictionary entry. There are so many California Indian cultures that such oddly specific things don't get mentioned a lot in the literature. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:58, 16 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Deleted. - -sche (discuss) 05:30, 29 December 2023 (UTC)