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Stern@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Scrabble’s New Official Word List Contains Dozens of Stunning Additions. Elite Players Are Mortified.

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Scrabble’s New Official Word List Contains Dozens of Stunning Additions. Elite Players Are Mortified.

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Stern@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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The slurs are just the beginning.
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    So the group re-added words such as SPAZ, GOY, REDNECK, GREYBEARD, and TWAT.

    Great, he’s back…

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      Why would you ever remove twat? Twat is a great word, which I can only hear in Con O’Neill’s voice from Our Flag Means Death.

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        Allegedly, it offends people.

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          The only people it offends are twats

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            Well, there seems to be a lot of them…

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          I think that’s the point though?

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