Recommend addition/removal of words
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Are we planning to ask for ALL derogatory words to be removed? How about commonly used profanity?
The set of words allowed in word games is normally a list of words that exist in the language, not a list of only the good and uplifting words.
I'm not arguing that anyone should use the verb form of "jew" in speech in polite society, but I expect all valid English words to show up in the game. That includes words that are derogatory or profane.
Not that it matters, but I am a capital-J Jew myself, and I've used the word in Lexulous. Not to endorse its use, but because I had the letters and it fit the game board.
Oversensitive political correctness is getting out of hand.
@embraceableewe, how about OFAY? Look it up. Or use, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ofay
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@sparks
Thanks for the quick reply. Here is my Lexulous list. I cannot use 'CH'!
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@embraceableewe, how about OFAY? Look it up. Or use, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ofay
@jrp32
Just to add a bit of confusion
I have always considered the word "ofay" to mean "be familiar" with. I have been ofay with the word all my life. -
@mistertoad That looks like the American dictionary two-letter word list: no ZO
@rayger - apologies but the reference escaped me - are you saying that CH is similar to ZO?
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@mapmakere - "CH is in the UK list but not the US"
Thanks - that would explain why I don't always see it in my 'Dictionary' word lists. However ...@jrp32 - Does Lexulous use the Collins dictionary? This would suggest CH can be used with both of the above lists. Maybe you always play with the UK list and never with the US?
@mistertoad Yes, I always use the UK list.
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@rayger - apologies but the reference escaped me - are you saying that CH is similar to ZO?
@mistertoad No, I'm saying that the reason CH disappeared from your list was that for the game for which you supplied a screenshot you were using the American dictionary, which leaves out several words familiar from the British English dictionary, including CH and ZO.
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I would like to see the removal of some letters.
Personally I find "V" and "C" very hard to work with.
Also I struggle with more than one "I".
There have been some hummings about a "snail based" (with wood inlay) word list.
I've not seen this personally but I think it might be a good start at creating a new alphabet.
Maybe a more organic feel. Without the rough surface of real letters and words. -
I would like to see the removal of some letters.
Personally I find "V" and "C" very hard to work with.
Also I struggle with more than one "I".
There have been some hummings about a "snail based" (with wood inlay) word list.
I've not seen this personally but I think it might be a good start at creating a new alphabet.
Maybe a more organic feel. Without the rough surface of real letters and words.@sparks said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
I would like to see the removal of some letters.
Personally I find "V" and "C" very hard to work with.
Also I struggle with more than one "I"......I think you have some excellent ideas here. Also, I would like to see the use of a dictionary composed of words that only i know.
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@bestofgdo So am I and that word was used many times in a derogatory manner when I was young and I don't need reminding about it.
@zoso-thezephead used with small J never a compliment
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@betterlate1-0 You are taking offence when it isn't given.
This is the new hobby of Americans as they/you don't have anything other than first world problems to groan about.
It is ultimately people like you, with your attitude, that makes things worse.
Nobody that I have seen in this website is interested in discrimination at all.
But as I have mentioned before, you are a troll, and this type of conversation is not welcome here. We play a game, we are not politicians or popes.
If this game is too intense for you, then I really don't know what a softer option is.
There is no two state solution in scrabble, only better play.@sparks most have no thought to be offensive. Some do it with only that thought. This is a word site and words have meanings. Maybe you choose to ignore the meanings but others don't and that is what you need to realize. Not a new hobby of Americans it is old to anyone around the world that is interested in words
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I would like to see the removal of some letters.
Personally I find "V" and "C" very hard to work with.
Also I struggle with more than one "I".
There have been some hummings about a "snail based" (with wood inlay) word list.
I've not seen this personally but I think it might be a good start at creating a new alphabet.
Maybe a more organic feel. Without the rough surface of real letters and words. -
Why are you using words from a foreign country. Example, Favala is not an english word. That is not fair.
@carolyn-leverich-atkinson : "Favala" with an a is not considered valid anywhere; not even in Brazilian Portuguese.
However, "favela" with an e means shanty town in Brazil and has been adopted into English (at least the online Collins Dictionary lists it). -
@sparks said in Recommend addition/removal of words:
I would like to see the removal of some letters.
Personally I find "V" and "C" very hard to work with.
Also I struggle with more than one "I"......I think you have some excellent ideas here. Also, I would like to see the use of a dictionary composed of words that only i know.
@jrp32 Yeah that sounds good, it might compliment the "solitaire" version of scrabble they are working on in Iran now. Well people say they are but to be fair we don't have any proof, same as when we thought they were trying to make a "fair" version of monopoly in Iraq, we never found a thing.
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@gretchen-hunter yo-yo proper noun
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@mistertoad
I am happy to report that 'CH' has now returned to my list. Strange!@mistertoad do not know if you got an answer..cant tell order received and i have to wait to long to figure it out..ch only in brit dic
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@sparks most have no thought to be offensive. Some do it with only that thought. This is a word site and words have meanings. Maybe you choose to ignore the meanings but others don't and that is what you need to realize. Not a new hobby of Americans it is old to anyone around the world that is interested in words
@betterlate1-0 Just because you own lots of cats doesn't make you a cat lover.
You are simply a word Nazi. I used a capital "N" to avoid offence.
PS: It's ALL upper-case on the scrabble board. -
@mistertoad do not know if you got an answer..cant tell order received and i have to wait to long to figure it out..ch only in brit dic
@betterlate1-0
Thanks yes, I got the answer I wanted. Thus:
"CH is in the UK list but not the US"Then the thread went a bit loopy. All the felines with snail eyes came out of the favelas, smoking fags, and began to party!
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"Yoyo" is a word ... it is a toy (as well as a person who is a dolt). Add it.
@gretchen-hunter When referring to the toy (and probably when referring to a dolt), "yo-yo" is hyphenated. It is, therefore, unacceptable.
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@gretchen-hunter When referring to the toy (and probably when referring to a dolt), "yo-yo" is hyphenated. It is, therefore, unacceptable.
@zshouldbe8
"A yo-yo (also spelled yoyo)" (WIKI) - well, so they say! LOLAlso - yoyo can apparently mean "You're On Your Own" when texting!
