Scrabble players quit game after 400 offensive words banned from list
Scrabble players quit game after 400 offensive words banned from list
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Yes, but presumably if avoiding that situation was the goal they would have removed "faggot." I can't even really understand what is the reasoning which might have led them to be extremely aggressive about finding weird slurs that very few people use to root out and remove, while leaving the ones that are actual issues alone. In some way, I think the impotence of the final decision set is somehow connected with the performative nature of it all. Maybe? I have no idea.
Ultimately it seems like they're just trying to fit in with the times as their clueless executives understand them. I think they're a few years behind the times, though, actually. Maybe if they were a little more hip they would be trying to release a "free speech" Scrabble with a bunch of new words added and with "liberal" and "woke" removed, now that the 2010s' brand of stupid performativeness is being replaced with a new type of performativeness that's different and much darker.
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Faggot is a real word with actual, non offensive, meanings, 'paki' is not.
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No. It absolutely is not. Historically it did sure, but I challenge you to go to any corner of the English-speaking world and use it in any sentence at all and have any single person hear you and assume that you mean a bundle of sticks.
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The last time I was in the UK they still called cigarettes fags, so who knows
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"'cigarette' is short for 'meatball'" is certainly a sentence.
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Like I said, using the UK is cheating (I guess I should have specified that). I can take a walk down Butthole Lane, look up the bus schedule from Shitterton to Twatt, and then I can go pick up 6 faggots for £1.60. It's all just part of the nature of the place.
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I'm sorry, using the place where English came from as an example of modern English usage is somehow against some imaginary rule of argument? What a take.
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Pretty sure George Washington invented English, it was right about the time he was teaching the Wampanoag about thanksgiving and the Iroquois about federal democracy.
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(I am joking don't get all upset. Here, here's Al Murray to soothe the English pride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x2ovlPr2IE)
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My dude, I'm in america.
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I am clearly just talking nonsense. I actually didn't know that meatballs were called that in the UK, so I guess it's perfectly legit. There actually was a big rift in the Scrabble community, decades ago, about using the British official word list versus the American official word list, and apparently they've more or less standardized on a combined list that includes all the words on both. So anything in British English is completely fair game, which may to be fair explain why some of the words that aren't real friendly in the US are still on there.
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I'm not able to see the removed word and my mind is running wild with imagination. Can you give me the first letter?
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Blgum
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Only thing I can think of with faggot is that on the UK at least that's a organ based dish
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The UK doesn't count man. If that's the metric for obscenity then everything is allowed.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Butthole+Ln,+Shepshed,+Loughborough,+UK/@52.776606,-1.2752399,17z
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Here in the uk , the P word is probably the most offensive word you could use against a person of Indian descent. Up there with the n word. removed (f word) is also probably the most offensive slur you can use in reference to gay people. It's correct that they banned them.
Guessing you're from America where being offensive is cool. Historically people used to justify the n word based on the origins rather than the highly offensive connotations.
UK ain't woke, just has some acceptance that people from different backgrounds have some value rather than pandering to grumpy white folk who care about nothing but themselves and how inconvenient it is to possibly consider other words.
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UK ain't woke, just has some acceptance that people from different backgrounds have some value
Lmao. Of all the countries to say this about.
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