[vunderba]

> "'I love you' isn't opaque, but it's tight enough to put on a tile."

The problem with introducing phrase/sentences into a word game (let's take Scrabble) is that you'd spend half the night with your friends arguing over what is and is not acceptable with the only litmus test being its... corpus frequency?

[wredcoll]

> what is and is not acceptable with the only litmus test being its... corpus frequency?

How do you suppose we determine acceptability now?

[backscratches]

Not with corpus frequency. Just has to exist a single time in agreed upon dictionary.

[wredcoll]

And the dictionary chooses words based on... how often people use them?

[backscratches]

Dictionaries would be ruined if they could only use popular words. I guess you might be describing very early children's dictionaries, but I dont think that's your argument?