ludic

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Participants may also be more inclined to display ludic behavior because by virtue of meeting on Facebook, which is a rather un-serious place, a certain level of playfulness is assumed.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to play or playfulness: "Fiction . . . now makes [language] the center of its reflexive concern, and explodes in ludic, parodic, ironic forms” (Ihab Hassan).

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  • How could you complain, winning like that and with Lily's smile echoing through the chambers of your dim mind as the roseate flush of dawn glimmers like a ludic zephyr o'er the limpid waters of a Disney lagoon? —  FSF,September2006
  • The "ludic fallacy" translates roughly as the "nerd problem." —  Traffick
  • But they're useful thought exercises to illustrate how the ludic fallacy as practiced by the Dr. Johns of the world can bite you … and how the street smarts of Fat (er, Horizontally Challenged) Tony would have been at least as appropriate to long-term success, if not more. —  Traffick
  • The ludic fallacy applies glaringly to things like currency trading and mortgage-backed securities, as we know. —  Traffick
  • 'Touted as "playable theory," the Free Culture Game offers a ludic metaphor for the battle between copyright encroachments and the free exchange of knowledge, ideas and art.' —  GameSetWatch
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  1. French ludique, from Latin lūdus, play; see leid- in Indo-European roots.
 

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