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The move has split the community as players rebel. Three prominent members of the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association (Wespa) quit in protest because they felt that playing a word was not insulting in itself....

Karen Richards, a Wespa committee member who helped to run the World Youth Scrabble Championship for 15 years, scoffed at Mattel’s explanation that it was a family-friendly move, pointing out that children could still play other offensive words.

Mattel said that its intervention, which is the first time it has sought to remove words, was political. Ray Adler, the global head of games, said that it was a direct result of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.

“We looked at some of the social unrest that’s going on globally,” Adler said. “We looked at everything we were doing as a company and opportunities to be more culturally relevant. I’ve heard the argument that these are just words, but we believe they have meaning.”

Adler acknowledged that Scrabble had long-term declining sales and that a rebrand was necessary. “To get to the next generation of Scrabble fans we need to modernise it,” he said. Can you imagine any other game where you can score points and win by using a racial epithet? It’s long overdue.”

Wespa voted in February on whether to keep the words even if this would mean severing links with Mattel and having to remove Scrabble from its name. The motion, which required a three-quarters majority, failed to carry but showed a deep split, with 156 votes to abandon Mattel and 172 to remain.

David Webb, a Scrabble grandmaster, said that the British association felt obliged to remain because “Mattel basically pointed a gun at our head”.

“They said: ‘Accept expurgations or we will withdraw the licence and stop you from using the name Scrabble’,” Webb said.

None of the Scrabble associations from Africa voted to lose the words. Webb said that a decision to ban ethnic slurs had been imposed by middle-class white people.

George_V έγραψε: 13 Απρ 2021, 18:25 Τι δλδ δε μπορω να γραψω τη λεξη "Σεξοπορνοδιαστροφικος" ή "Τσιμπουκολεβιές" και να κερδισω?

Αδικια...

Καραμελίτσα έγραψε: 13 Απρ 2021, 18:31

George_V έγραψε: 13 Απρ 2021, 18:25 Τι δλδ δε μπορω να γραψω τη λεξη "Σεξοπορνοδιαστροφικος" ή "Τσιμπουκολεβιές" και να κερδισω?

Αδικια...

Στα ελληνικά εφόσον υπάρχει σε κάποιο λεξικό μπορείς. Στα αγγλικά πλέον δεν μπορείς να γράψεις nigger, ακόμα κι αν είσαι αραπάς, το οποίο μπορείς να το γράψεις ελληνικά.

Μπίστης έγραψε: 13 Απρ 2021, 18:32 Γιά ηλεκτρονικό μιλάμε ;
Όταν παίζαμε βάζαμε μπόνους στις πρόστυχες λέξεις, τι άλλαξε ;

George_V έγραψε: 13 Απρ 2021, 18:33

Καραμελίτσα έγραψε: 13 Απρ 2021, 18:31

George_V έγραψε: 13 Απρ 2021, 18:25 Τι δλδ δε μπορω να γραψω τη λεξη "Σεξοπορνοδιαστροφικος" ή "Τσιμπουκολεβιές" και να κερδισω?

Αδικια...

Στα ελληνικά εφόσον υπάρχει σε κάποιο λεξικό μπορείς. Στα αγγλικά πλέον δεν μπορείς να γράψεις nigger, ακόμα κι αν είσαι αραπάς, το οποίο μπορείς να το γράψεις ελληνικά.

Αντε και τις απαγορευσε.

Παραδειγμα: Ειμαι στην Αμερικη (και για να το κανω πιο ευκολο ειμαι στην Αλαμπαμα) και παιζουμε 4 ατομα Σκραμπλ. Γραφω "Nigger".

Πως θα το μαθουν οτι χρησιμοποιησα απαγορευμενη λεξη? Και τι θα παθω? Δεν θα κερδισω π.χ.?