• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    1. I don’t think the competitive Scrabble scene (of which there is a very intense one) really needs to be in charge of the game for everybody. But I get why that contingent is incredibly upset. The set of allowed words is locked in stone, such that people practice and optimize particular memorizations around the particular set of words, and they are barely words at that point, just random collections of letters that form the stepping-stones in their grand strategic endeavor. There are Scrabble experts who do not speak the language, just have memorized the words and are good at the strategy. I get why they’re upset.
    2. They’re not releasing the exact list, which is automatically a red flag of some fuckery to me.
    3. Nonetheless it has been confirmed that “Paki,” “fenian,” and “shiksha” are all on the banned list. Bro what?
    4. “Bitch,” “faggot,” and “slut” are all still in the game. 👍

    Deciding the list of officially banned words was always going to be a hopeless task, but even within that it looks like they’ve been doing a bad job.

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/uproar-over-scrabble-words-that-can-no-longer-be-used/news-story/bb72350938e787cf5566c01109c98dd0

    Edit: Uncapitalized

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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        “Paki” maybe. The other two I don’t think are.

        I think it’s especially hilarious that “fenian” is a slur. For any Irish person for whom it would become relevant at all, I feel like if you called them a “fenian” they would swell with pride.

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          a pakistani woman I knew explained to me that Paki was deeply offensive and that I should never use it, but she knew I probably didnt know that. she did suggest I never use it again unless I was trying to upset someone

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            Yes, but presumably if avoiding that situation was the goal they would have removed “faggot.” I can’t even really understand what is the reasoning which might have led them to be extremely aggressive about finding weird slurs that very few people use to root out and remove, while leaving the ones that are actual issues alone. In some way, I think the impotence of the final decision set is somehow connected with the performative nature of it all. Maybe? I have no idea.

            Ultimately it seems like they’re just trying to fit in with the times as their clueless executives understand them. I think they’re a few years behind the times, though, actually. Maybe if they were a little more hip they would be trying to release a “free speech” Scrabble with a bunch of new words added and with “liberal” and “woke” removed, now that the 2010s’ brand of stupid performativeness is being replaced with a new type of performativeness that’s different and much darker.

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              Faggot is a real word with actual, non offensive, meanings, ‘paki’ is not.

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                No. It absolutely is not. Historically it did sure, but I challenge you to go to any corner of the English-speaking world and use it in any sentence at all and have any single person hear you and assume that you mean a bundle of sticks.

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                  Faggots can also be meatballs, you can walk in to a supermarket and buy some faggots, or make them yourself.

                  The use to mean “a bundle of sticks” is definitely more rare now-a-days though, you’re correct.

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              Here in the uk , the P word is probably the most offensive word you could use against a person of Indian descent. Up there with the n word. removed (f word) is also probably the most offensive slur you can use in reference to gay people. It’s correct that they banned them.

              Guessing you’re from America where being offensive is cool. Historically people used to justify the n word based on the origins rather than the highly offensive connotations.

              UK ain’t woke, just has some acceptance that people from different backgrounds have some value rather than pandering to grumpy white folk who care about nothing but themselves and how inconvenient it is to possibly consider other words.

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              I’m not able to see the removed word and my mind is running wild with imagination. Can you give me the first letter?

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    1. This article is 3 years old.

    2. Good luck finding the actual list. This redditor apparently compiled one themselves. https://www.reddit.com/r/scrabble/comments/my5tie/the_419_words_erased_from_csw/

    3. Like all censorship: this is ineffectual and incomplete. Do enjoy digging around the list of words still allowed “because they have secondary nonoffensive definitions” like bitch, cunt, asshole, suckhole, sonofabitch, and of course…

    FUCK FUCKED FUCKER FUCKERS FUCKFACE FUCKFACES FUCKHEAD FUCKHEADS FUCKING FUCKINGS FUCKOFF FUCKOFFS FUCKS FUCKUP FUCKUPS FUCKWIT FUCKWITS

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      Holy shit, my sides.

      ASPIE
      ASPIES
      
      ...
      
      BUBBA (?)
      
      ...
      
      BULLDIKE
      BULLDIKES
      BULLDYKE
      BULLDYKES
      BUMBOY
      BUMBOYS
      CHINKIE
      CHINKIES
      CHOLO
      CHOLOS
      COCKSUCKER
      COCKSUCKERS
      
      ...
      
      DAGO
      DAGOES
      DAGOS
      DARKEY
      DARKEYS
      DARKIE
      DARKIES
      DARKY
      DIKEY
      DIKIER
      DIKIEST
      DOGAN
      DOGANS
      DYKEY
      DYKIER
      DYKIEST
      FAGGERIES
      FAGGERY
      FAGGIER
      FAGGIEST
      FAGGOTIER
      FAGGOTIEST
      FAGGOTRIES
      FAGGOTRY
      

      Okay, on some of these, they have a point lol.

      Also, I got curious and scrolled down to “N”, and all I can say is holy holy shit man. I get it. People cherry-picked out some stupid decisions, but it honestly makes a lot of sense now that I can see the list. I also understand why they didn’t publish the list…

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    My grandma, a very sweet, timid small old lady, once threw down a “C U N T” then innocently said, “What? It’s a word.”

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    “scores” = groups of 20

    so somewhere between 40 and 100 players quit the game because they couldn’t say a racial slur. In a game with apparently 2.5 million daily players. That can’t be right. In a playerbase that size I’d expect the percentage of bigots with no life to be somewhere in the tens of thousands.

    Guess it was a slow news day

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      I feel like the amount of bigots in a game that requires knowing lots of words is below the population average.

      But not THAT far.