Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change

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[mikrofon]

Once they begin allowing acronyms, then you know it’s all over....

[martin_fierro]

[dfwgator]

The Russian version: Uposcrabblenyk

[Jewbacca]

Ah.

I don’t speak English sufficiently to know that “jew” is also a verb.

Vaguely makes sense.

[I Buried My Guns]

"...Might as well. American English usage is in the dump, anyway. Verb tenses are disappearing. “I seen him yesterday.” “I seen it was true.” ..."

Please keep in mind that the ghetto is not representative of all of America.

A few years ago I worked in a low-SES (that means "ghetto") school. The students would excrete noises similar to what you related above. My retort was "I'm sorry, I only speak human. Try again".

It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that in 10 years, when they are robbing a convenience store, they will enunciate and use proper grammar.

[sand lake bar]

LOL

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

“Jew” is never a legal word in Scrabble, because it’s capitalized. When spelled with a lower-case letter, “jew” is officially accepted. However, spelling “jew” with a lower-case letter turns it from a noun or adjective into a verb—specifically it’s a racially offensive verb meaning “haggle.” Many game publishers thus put it on the list of officially-legal-but-banned-nevertheless words like n... well, you get the idea.

I had no idea that that's what it meant. Thank you for telling me. I think I'll refrain from using it from now on in Scrabble games.

[Nachum]

Yeah, well we play “Bananagrams” now anyways