[sand lake bar]

Hmm...not sure I approve.

[occamrzr06]

Bush’s fault, I would bet.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

How much were they paid?

[applpie]

is this an effort to dumb the game down because too many folks have trouble coming up with more than four letter words?

[lurk]

The very last guardrail separating society from disaster has now been breached.

When the rules of Scrabble change, it’s all over.

[centurion316]

txt spk also ok. Yo from da hood be cool too.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Hmm...not sure I approve.

I know that I don't approve. This is stupid. Think of all the crazy names people make up for their kids. Will those all be in the Scrabble dictionary? Will little "Flapboggle's" mommy sue Scrabble for leaving her son's name of out the dictionary?

It will make playing a lot easier, too. There is no need for this. I can't believe we've come to the point where we're dumbing down Scrabble. I've been playing Scrabble practically all of my life and I honestly think that this will take the fun out of it.

[Anti-Utopian]

It won’t help sales. Games businesses that rely on an educated public will continue to see a sales slump thanks to public schools and universities.

[Above My Pay Grade]

This is sacrilge. This is like changing the rules of baseball so that a batted ball caught in the air is no longer an out.

This will be great for cheaters, though. “I’m telling you, my college roomate’s name was ‘Qzyjkxwy’. That’s 53 points, plus the double letter scores on the z and x, times 9 for the 2 triple word scores, plus 50 points for using all my letters...2,436 points! Your turn.”

[T Minus Four]

Hmmmph. Well, in my house, it’s MY house rules. No proper nouns!

[lastchance]

One is never prepared for a Sign of The Apocalypse in their own life time.

[dfwgator]

So if I name my kid Qaklzwx, that will now count.

[mountainbunny]

FTA: The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has said.

Hmmmm. How to I put this? Heck, no. Not in our house!

We play Scrabble to have fun and improve our vocabularies. We do not play to make everyone feel good or to artificially boost self esteem.

The old rules are perfectly cromulent. We're not going to change them.

[rfp1234]

[NautiNurse]

Plaxico or Shaniqua with triple word score!

[righttackle44]

Might as well. American English usage is in the dump, anyway. Verb tenses are disappearing. “I seen him yesterday.” “I seen it was true.” Et cetera. These are becoming prevalent on Free Republic, for example. One of the things about corrupted language is that it seems to have appeared in the daily intercourse of societies and countries that have begun to go down the tubes. Classical Greek changed—some say corrupted—into Koine Greek along the way when Classical Greece was disappearing.

[tophat9000]

As a dyslexic I hate that game... Satan makes the really bad people in hell play Scrabble

[mirkwood]

Oh-oh..My mom is gonna be pissed. You do NOT mess with scrabble rules. Except the timer. She hates that thing.

[mirkwood]

This has got to be one of the most clever E-mails I’ve received in A while. Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)!

DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER

DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES: When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE : When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS: When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘S

A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: I’M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Dumbed down Scrabble?

[catfish1957]

Hey Mattel... Go ahead and place these two tiles wherever you want... F U

More evidence society is dumbing down, and taking the path of least resistance.