Wildcards for dictionary words

[johnbrown-IF]

To add wildcards for dictionary words as a simple alternative to (removable word endings).

[dstelzer]

How do you envision this working? A notation like @any*thing to represent any string of characters in the middle there?

[johnbrown-IF]

Something like this: ``` (name *) Fitzgerald-Muddleby (dict *) fitz* ``` We replace the ending of a word with an asterisk to indicate that it can be arbitrary. For example, this can be useful for a long name that a player might misspell. This may be particularly relevant for languages in which word endings are used extensively, such as Russian. In my version of the library, I tried to include all of them—there are several dozen—but I’m not a linguist, so I may have missed some. If it were possible to specify just the root of the word, I probably would have done that. 24 августа 2026 г. 16:49:13 UTC, Daniel Stelzer ***@***.***> пишет:

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[dstelzer]

Hmm, interesting. This makes sense, and it works with the underlying representation of extdict words. The question is how to implement it…or if this is worth implementing at all, since if we could handle #7 , that would make this possible automatically. It would definitely need an update to the Å-machine, since currently optional suffixes are handled entirely by the interpreter, not the game.