"As Daniel says, it’s a spatial game more than a semantic one, which explains why many of the world’s top players hail from Thailand. They concentrate on structures rather than meanings. Indeed, it has been argued that speaking English is a disadvantage in top-flight Scrabble, where the true champion relies on a battery of memorized pseudo-words." All of this explains why, at those lofty levels, the game still contains racial, ethnic and sexual slurs. Now, they're slated to be gone -- even as some players who the slurs are aimed at don't necessarily think they should be expurgated. According to...