To: BBQToadRibs
Exactly my thought as I heard some of the words used in earlier rounds. Need some Scrabble-type rules about words being in English. Of course, English is cobbled together from lots of other linguistic origins...
7 posted on
06/01/2018 7:17:51 AM PDT by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: T-Bird45
Exactly my thought as I heard some of the words used in earlier rounds. Need some Scrabble-type rules about words being in English
15 posted on
06/01/2018 7:32:50 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: T-Bird45
Exactly my thought as I heard some of the words used in earlier rounds. Need some Scrabble-type rules about words being in English. Of course, English is cobbled together from lots of other linguistic origins... Cobbled?
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll
24 posted on
06/01/2018 8:39:54 AM PDT by
GreenLanternCorps
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