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      A Former User @zoso thezephead last edited by

      @zoso-thezephead Where to start, and where will it end.
      I think more likely that the word in the current climate would be removed because it is offensive to most of the world who has predominantly sided with Palestine.

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        jrp32 last edited by

        maybe people should look up the definition of "OFAY" which is also valid.

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          roymccoy @zoso thezephead last edited by

          @zoso-thezephead

          Yes, and honky, wop, spic, nigger and wetback, please. Plus I'm sure there are lots of others. I'm all for correctness, and I'm sure there are many words that have to go. Thank you Lexulous for policing the language!

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            A Former User @roymccoy last edited by

            @roymccoy you do not have to use any of those words it is a choice you make. You also do not have to play those with a vocabulary that is that limited

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              A Former User @roymccoy last edited by

              @roymccoy I think you are missing the spirit of the game.
              It has never been about word quality, judgement or semantics.
              it is based purely on word lists, we have words in our language/s that are not nice ones, but they are there. Excluding and censoring then MAKES the game about more than words, and that has never been the game I want to play.
              I play with no intent or malice or subtext. I play for fun.
              Words will never hurt me.

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                roymccoy @Guest last edited by

                @betterlate1-0
                My sarcasm was apparently too subtle for you. To my knowledge Lexulous doesn't make or maintain the dictionaries it uses, and I'm surprised not to have seen that mentioned. Or, actually, I'm not surprised, since I didn't read the other replies.

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                  roymccoy @Guest last edited by

                  @sparks
                  You missed my sarcasm too. Sorry.

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                    A Former User @roymccoy last edited by

                    @roymccoy hi, yeah I kinda wondered, im the one that should be sorry. you just never know in this place 🙂

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                      A Former User @roymccoy last edited by

                      @roymccoy reminds me of someone tells a joke and no one laughs. I find jew very offensive a long with other words, but sometimes I use it. There is no law that says I have to play any that uses offensive words. Do not think for me and do not expect anyone to rewrite the dictionary for anyone else just all should be selective in who they play. There are people i will not play because they think certain 4 letter words are just fine. To me
                      using some of these words show ignorance, lack of respect and a lack of vocab why play them? As for
                      someone else here, goy is not an insult, just means not Jewish. jew is intended to be an insult

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                        roymccoy @Guest last edited by

                        @betternever1-0
                        The dictionaries are the dictionaries. I eschew linguistic or sociological discussions here, and I play to get the higher score and win rather than to be morally praiseworthy or politically correct.

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                          A Former User @sanctuarie last edited by

                          @sanctuarie You are Jewish and a Jew .if you are a cheapskate and want to demean yourself or others you say jew

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                            Mistertoad last edited by

                            I know this is a serious thread but I had to laugh over something the owners of our beautiful game said on the subject recently.

                            It seems that more than 200 dictionary words have been removed from the Scrabble lexicon in the past year or so by Scrabble's board game owners, Mattel. A spokesman said:

                            "I’ve heard the argument that these are just words, but we believe they have meaning."

                            Er, yes. Quite so!

                            [https://7news.com.au/entertainment/games/scrabble-bans-long-list-of-words-players-are-no-longer-allowed-to-use--c-2593627](link url)

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                              A Former User @roymccoy last edited by

                              @roymccoy gees how many names do you have?

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                                Gretchen Hunter last edited by

                                "Yoyo" is a word ... it is a toy (as well as a person who is a dolt). Add it.

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                                  KasloDavid last edited by

                                  The word "Medias" was allowed, and defined as the plural form of "media" . "Media" ITSELF is the plural form of "medium", is it not????? I believe you should remove "medias" from the list of acceptable words.

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                                    roymccoy @Mistertoad last edited by

                                    @mistertoad

                                    I can't upvote this, but thanks for posting it.

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                                      haftoplay @Guest last edited by

                                      @betterlate1-0 I will play anything for points that has a j, f, c, k, t, whatever. once, I have abstained from playing nazi and trump

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                                        A Former User @haftoplay last edited by

                                        @haftoplay All choices, I just know if I do not use them I do not have to apologize. 🙂

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                                          bestofgdo @betterlate1 last edited by

                                          @betterlate1 I am a Jew; my faith. It doesn't always mean swindle.

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                                            Mistertoad @Guest last edited by

                                            @betterlate1-0

                                            Nahma Nadich (deputy director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston):

                                            "I have a hard time seeing “goy” as anything but offensive. In my day job I often find it necessary to distinguish between Jews and non-Jews, as in “What it’s like to be a non-Jewish counselor at a Jewish summer camp” or “In Moscow, a non-Jewish physicist recalls helping build the Soviet Union’s only yeshiva.”

                                            But the word “goy” has too much historical and linguistic baggage to be used as casually as “non-Jew” or “gentile.” It starts with the obvious slurs – like “goyishe kopf,” or gentile brains, which suggests (generously) a dullard, or “shikker iz a goy,” a gentile is a drunkard. “Goyishe naches” describes the kinds of things that a Jew mockingly presumes only a gentile would enjoy, like hunting, sailing and eating white bread."

                                            https://www.jta.org/2019/04/22/culture/is-goy-a-slur

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