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Fox News now accusing Scrabble of being too “woke” (www.lgbtqnation.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There is an official Scrabble dictionary

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Would only really be relevant for tournaments, except the organizing bodies of which aren't affiliated with Hasbro and have their own sets of words and drama over them. People playing casually can just have house rules about whether slurs are or aren't accepted and what counts as one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well yeah. When we play Scrabble, the house rule is 'English Wiktionary'

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We used to play "if you can convince me it's a word, it counts". I got a triple word score on zaxticuous and that shit got shut down. It means: Having the property or appearance of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell.

(The events in this comment are a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

"Any resemblance to actual persons— Zach Morris or otherwise— or actual events... is purely coincidental."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The best Scrabble move I ever saw:

My brother: "Can you put down swear words?"

My mother: "No."

My brother: (Puts down SHIT) "Not a swear, just what I have to do." (Leaves to go to the bathroom.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Legendary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Based

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ours was the unabridged OED when I was a kid.

And my father with his English PhD didn't even play.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Tournaments and also digital versions of the game. I think Scrabble might be popular on Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'll accept it if its obviously a real word, no matter how offensive it is.

Not if it requires a capital letter though. I'm not a complete animal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Which had the N-word in it until 2020.