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I think that's a reasonable and rational approach you are taking.
It's an area I know nothing about and I have seen too many Hyperloops,Theranos and FTxs in my life to not be a little bit cynical on some claims.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Rating usual , no (8)
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Rating AB
usual NORMAL
no
ABNORMAL
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YAUT
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Good little clue!
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Easy one I'm trying to encourage more people to participate in the CCC
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Well, I thought of ABNORMAL but couldn't get the reason. Quite embarrassing really since my first few years of employment were working on a merchant ship.
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Usual being a synonym of normal and the no inverting the answer I thought would give the game away, I often get the solution and post it before breaking it down to justify it
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However abnormal is not exactly the same as not-normal...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Agreed, but near enough for our purposes
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Of course - I just noted that because lately me wife calls me abnormal, but in the past I was called not normal...
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Mine just calls me a ****. Removes any such confusion.
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"Close enough for Government work."
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That's how I arrived at the solution. Usual = NORMAL, No = take the opposite => ABNORMAL. I wasn't sure about that result being a rating but went with it anyway. AB as a naval rating didn't occur to me, even though I have seen it before in the CCC.
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rating usual = Abnormal I get. But then the "definition" would need to be just "no", and I don't think of "no" as being "abnormal".
In this case the clue word "usual" is used twice - once as a synonym for part of the answer, and again as the answer's definition. That seems at odds with the customary rules for CCC, no? Wouldn't a "cleaner" clue be rating usual, rare? or similar?
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Easier, yes - but the clue as presented is clever - the "No", negates the previous word to provide the definition, while the other two provide the "basics" for the clue.
I like it (and not just because I got it )
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Wordle 773 3/6
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 773 6/6*
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⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
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Wordle 773 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
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Wordle 773 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
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⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
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Wordle 773 4/6*
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Since past 3 wordles I am choosing the wrong option out of only two possibilities.
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Start choosing the other one then
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Wordle 773 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩
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Wordle 773 5/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
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