bjorn.now
Björn Andersson
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I have enjoyed doing the daily Explainle.org for the last couple of days. It triggers some of the fun bits of language for me. 🙂

The twist compared to straight up “the opposite of this” is that there are “forbidden words” that you’re not allowed to use, and only 100 characters.

Screenshot of Explainle game showing the word AGGREGATE with forbidden words (total, sum, combine, collection, accumulate) crossed out. Previous attempt shows explanation 'an SQL AVG statement needs a GROUP BY because it's an...' with the guess AGGREGATE marked correct with a green checkmark.

Luckily for me, it’s relying on an LLM and is therefore quite nerdy, so I can explain it in language I understand