Mattel murders scrabble,rapes corpse

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Proper nouns now in scrabble (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8604625.stm) What is there to say?

[Geminex]

http://i40.tinypic.com/2mg439l.jpg

Ok, not really. I'm guessing the rule change will just be ignored.

[Mirai Gen]

So it's Scrabble 4th Edition?

[Viridis]

This made the rounds on reddit. Awesome end of the world mentality involved, but the rules aren't changing (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20001840-52.html).

Well, lest you worry that, in fact, the sky is falling, the good news is that it's not. According to John Williams, the executive director of the American Scrabble Association, the news is just not true. Williams said in a phone interview that what's happened is that Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble in England, is going to release a completely new version of the game there called Scrabble Trickster, in which anything goes, including the use of proper nouns, spelling words backwards, stealing letters, and so on.

It's nothing more than a PR ploy by Mattel, Williams suggested.

Mattel has since confirmed that the new version will in fact be called Scrabble Trickster.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Fuck them. Scrabble is serious business yo.

[Geminex]

Yeah! I wanted self-righteous indignation!

[Amake]

Guy guys, you're missing the point. They're making Scrabble for wordmakeruppers. Isn't it splendiferous?

[Geminex]

Fantasteriffic.

I can somehow imagine huge star trek nerds playing klingon scrabble, I don't know why.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Guy guys, you're missing the point. They're making Scrabble for wordmakeruppers. Isn't it splendiferous?

This is everything that is wrong in the world.

[Jagos]

Triple points for Snozzberry!

[bluestarultor]

So in other words, they're taking all the cheating they wiped out in the latest version of Monopoly and relocating it to Scrabble?

[Amake]

This is everything that is wrong in the world.
Language is a living, changing thing. You got to get over that. Also, making stuff up is fun.

[Mannix]

Language is a living, changing thing.

So is V.D., but we try our best to keep that crap under control.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Language is a living, changing thing. You got to get over that. Also, making stuff up is fun.

Do you also play Chess with slave labourers as pawns, economic rationalists as bishops, and an imaginary king representing capital?

Scrabble isn't about language, lots of the best scrabble players don't even speak english.

[Kim]

Do you also play Chess with slave labourers as pawns, economic rationalists as bishops, and an imaginary king representing capital?

...yes.

:gonk:

[krogothwolf]

Scrabble isn't about language, lots of the best scrabble players don't even speak english.

If that's the case, they should add dueling when you challenge a word instead of looking it up. Then things would be really awesome!

[bluestarultor]

Do you also play Chess with slave labourers as pawns, economic rationalists as bishops, and an imaginary king representing capital?

Scrabble isn't about language, lots of the best scrabble players don't even speak english.

Hey, Smarty? You know words? Kind of the basis of language. Just because some players don't understand the language doesn't make it less about language.

例えば、私はそれを翻訳すれば鳴る、同じ意味を保つべきであるこのものがのようにわからない。

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Blues is here










My point is here.
That is all.

[BloodyMage]

It's well known that most competitive scrabble players learn the spellings of the words in the scrabble dictionary but don't bother learning the meanings, mostly because they don't need to know the meaning. I've also heard that it's because it takes up memory space and they need all that memory space to remember to know how to spell a large quantity of words, but I don't know how medically sound that is.

So it's quite understandable that you don't actually need to know English to play scrabble, just the alphabet.

[Amake]

Scrabble isn't about language
Then it's a completely meaningless game and its rules are of no interest to me.

[Kim]

Scrabble is about testing your vocabulary. This change pretty much kills that. Vocabulary is different from language. I might know Japanese words, but it doesn't mean I can use them properly to communicate.

[Arcanum]

Sooo would this be a bad time to say that the best kind of scrabble is Dr. Seuss scrabble?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Then it's a completely meaningless game and its rules are of no interest to me.

As Noncon says, the point of scrabble is to test your vocabulary. If you don'twant to do that it's fine but you shouldn't be playing scrabble, you should be playing Balderdash!
And they do add words to the scrabble dictionary over time.

[BloodyMage]

Balderdash is awesome.

[Amake]

I use www.freerice.com to test my vocabulary. But making up words is still closer to my idea of a good time. >_>

[Donomni]

So Kwyjibo can finally be legally played, eh?

As long as it's seperate from normal Scrabble, I could honestly care less.

...well, maybe I'd play just one game. <_< >_>

[A Zarkin' Frood]

To me Scrabble's goal always was to get others to accept whichever seven letter word I wanted to get through. For some reason lesser gifted people seem to think I'm some sort of lingo genius. So it's rather easy for me.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Guys the point of scrabble is massive 3 turn strategies to set up the perfect board allowing you to play your killer 7 letter word on a triple letter score only to have your strategy work perfectely right up until the very person before you who plays a 10 point word on your triple letter box, thus making all your preperations worthless

[Aerozord]

was gonna say this is stupid, but then realized its an excuse to use fhqwhgads in a game

[Archbio]

Quone. Quoned. Quoning.

The last time I heard "language is a living thing" used as apologia for something it was about using "mail" for e-mail... in french.

But really I don't see why these rules couldn't work as long as, well, there are rules and reference books.

[Azisien]

Wait Scrabble has rules? This must be why I haven't enjoyed Scrabble...Oh well! *goes back to Arkham Horror*

[BitVyper]

Proper nouns are OP. Trickster is nerfing rules lawyers.

[Bells]

So it's Scrabble: Calvinball.

How is this not awesome?

[Magus]

Guys the point of scrabble is massive 3 turn strategies to set up the perfect board allowing you to play your killer 7 letter word on a triple letter score only to have your strategy work perfectely right up until the very person before you who plays a 10 point word on your triple letter box, thus making all your preperations worthless

Thus showing the point of Scrabble is to create seething hatred and mistrust between humans. (http://www.theonion.com/articles/jilted-hasbro-ceo-laughs-coldly-as-scrabble-destro,2760/)

EDIT: This Free Rice is great, I can practice vocabulary and feed hungry people apparently! It sounds inane and like it makes no sense but whatever!