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Noah (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 17 Septemba 2004 10:34:08 alasiri
rpyle (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 19 Oktoba 2004 3:20:45 alasiri
russ (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 17 Novemba 2008 10:23:21 asubuhi
amuzulo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Agosti 2011 1:33:27 alasiri
russ:"Triktrako" appears in PIV and various other dictionaries. "Bakgamono" is occasionally seen on the web (presumably often by people just unconsciously Esperantizing the name from English or whatever their native language is, instead of researching it first.)Tamen, mi ĵus ŝanĝis "triktrako" en mia teksto al "bakgamono" pro vi!
russ (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Agosti 2011 2:48:30 alasiri
Yeah, I have since learned that there is an ancestor game of backgammon which was named by a word similar to "triktrako" and no longer played generally, and PIV apparently used that root. But backgammon is a distinct and different later game (still popularly played).
E.g. see:
http://www.bkgm.com/variants/Trictrac.html :
Many modern backgammon books refer to Trictrac simply as the French name for backgammon, however real Trictrac is quite a different game.During Itala Junulara Festivalo in 2010, Cesco (who works in a game museum) talked about this distinction.
And of course looking at the other-language links at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon shows that most other languages use a name similar to "backgammon" rather than "tric-trac".
Donniedillon (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 7 Agosti 2011 3:54:54 alasiri