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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2010 6:40:57 GMT
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Post by mouse on Apr 6, 2010 8:30:14 GMT
not a good idea...yet an other dumb down...cant have people actually thinking words lead to thought..thought leads to chaos
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 6, 2010 11:52:46 GMT
since more and more are choosing to be abjectly stupid, it's necessary for the preservation of the company to make games for the stupid
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Post by jean on Apr 6, 2010 14:17:02 GMT
I'm a bit puzzled here...do people have to think harder to come up with proper nouns than common ones?
Personally I've never cared for Scrabble because I'm interested in what words mean especially when you put them together in sentences. Considered as isolated bundles of letters, they don't mean anything.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2010 16:07:07 GMT
I suspect that most people don't just memorise words but have to draw on their vocabulary to find a word. If they spell it wrong, they are penalised.
There is probably some benefit in being able to remember how a racing driver or rapper spells his or her name ...but however are the other players to disprove that a name is wrong?
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Post by mouse on Apr 6, 2010 17:19:41 GMT
i widened my childrens vocabularies by illiterration..they used to love it i find words quite exciting..i have an old victorian dictionary presented to my victorian grandfather on passing his bar exams ...some of the words i have never heard of..in fact i wonder where i put it..its huge
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Post by jean on Apr 6, 2010 18:01:24 GMT
You mean you made them illiterate?
That wasn't very kind of you.
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Post by Synonym on Apr 6, 2010 18:22:32 GMT
I haven't played scrabble in years but why would they need to bring out a specific edition to allow names? Can't they just put out an official announcement. Otherwise what will be different in the new version? One line in the rules altered perhaps.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2010 18:48:42 GMT
You mean you made them illiterate? That wasn't very kind of you. Someone made me type "disprove that a name is wrong". Own up!
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 6, 2010 19:07:22 GMT
I suspect that most people don't just memorise words but have to draw on their vocabulary to find a word. If they spell it wrong, they are penalised. There is probably some benefit in being able to remember how a racing driver or rapper spells his or her name ...but however are the other players to disprove that a name is wrong? when i was in college, my english composition professor was a real stickler on spelling. a requirement was writing at least a three hundred word paper each week, and regardless of how well it was written, if one percent of the words were misspelled, it was an automatic F. EVERY course should be like that
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 6, 2010 19:09:23 GMT
i widened my childrens vocabularies by illiterration..they used to love it i find words quite exciting..i have an old victorian dictionary presented to my victorian grandfather on passing his bar exams ...some of the words i have never heard of..in fact i wonder where i put it..its huge you know, i never could see the teacher telling you to look up a word in the dictionary if you didn't know how to spell it. how the hell are you supposed to find it?
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 6, 2010 19:11:02 GMT
You mean you made them illiterate? That wasn't very kind of you. Someone made me type "disprove that a name is wrong". Own up! no need to disprove it. it is solely the responsiblity of the speller to prove it correct
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Post by jean on Apr 6, 2010 20:09:45 GMT
when i was in college, my english composition professor was a real stickler on spelling. a requirement was writing at least a three hundred word paper each week, and regardless of how well it was written, if one percent of the words were misspelled, it was an automatic F. And it made you what you are today! I can't help wondering, though...how was he about the use of capital letters?
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Post by jean on Apr 6, 2010 20:14:02 GMT
I haven't played scrabble in years but why would they need to bring out a specific edition to allow names? Can't they just put out an official announcement...? No, because then nobody wpuld buy the new edition and they wouldn't make any money out of it.
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Post by mouse on Apr 6, 2010 21:19:25 GMT
You mean you made them illiterate? lordy..the old ones are the best boom boom but seriously its a fun way of getting kids to know and use words in the correct way stunning sister sarah stood sturdily- summoning sublime sweet sounding songs so sucessfully - she silenced etc etc
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Post by iamjumbo on Apr 6, 2010 21:40:21 GMT
when i was in college, my english composition professor was a real stickler on spelling. a requirement was writing at least a three hundred word paper each week, and regardless of how well it was written, if one percent of the words were misspelled, it was an automatic F. And it made you what you are today! I can't help wondering, though...how was he about the use of capital letters? he was a stickler for completely proper english composition. when i was writing a paper, i did it perfectly, just as i now do for legal work. i don't do it in letters, or on boards, simply because it's time consuming, and extra work having to push the shift key for a single letter to start a sentence. the period at the end of the sentence indicates that another one is beginning
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Post by jade on Apr 8, 2010 7:18:44 GMT
THEY ARE MESSING WITH SCRABBLE? ? *swoons I love Scrabble. My mum and I played it for years (still ouwld if she could get her head round the online dictionary) and one of the biggest thrills was getting away with a cheat. Cheats discovered were worth points in our house
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