• DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    In page layout they count as two, since they can break across lines

    In crosswords and word searches they can count as one, mostly because small phrases can count as well.

    In prose length they can vary: “nuh-uh” is only 1 word since it’s less than six characters, but “antideluvian-american” is almost four, since it’s 21 characters long.

    I guess they count as one word when you’re playing an improv or collaborative fiction game?