Originally Posted By danyoung >The one that comes to mind is getting money when you land on Free Parking.< We put in that rule all by ourselves 40 years ago. All penalty money went in the center of the board, and if you landed on Free Parking, YOU GOT THAT CASH!!!
Originally Posted By Labuda ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Irregardless is not a word! Oh, and occurrence is spelled occurrence. I don't know why, but my 6th grade spelling teacher (still trips me out that we had an entire class of that in middle school!) was convinced it was misspelled more than any other word in English, so it was on our spelling test every week.
Originally Posted By DlandDug This too, shall pass. (At least, I hope.) Remember New Coke? This is a prime example of dumbing down for the sake of marketing. So, folks find the rules too hard to adhere to? (I mean, "to which to adhere?") Well, just change the rules. Voila! Everybody's a Scrabble maven! What makes this really distressing is that families have already been addressing this themselves for years. Of course, it does lead to problems when members go out into the real world and have to deal with the real rules. I was shocked, SHOCKED back in college when visiting friends who allowed everyone to consult the dictionary BEFORE placing a word on the board. Their attitude was that it encouraged the kids to learn new words. My problem: the "kids" were now in college, and needed to play by the real rules. And that is where (CRANKY RANT ALERT) this is all leading. A society in which "rules" are just petty annoyances that get in the way of our fun. Why wait to make a right hand turn when the light is red? Change that law. Why sit at a red light when there's no traffic coming from the other direction? Change that law, too. And where does it all lead? A society where convenience trumps the rule of law. (Rant off.) Oh, one last question... Under the new rules (only in the UK, FOR NOW), would it be legal to play LADYGAGA? Or does there have to be a space between LADY (a legal word!) and GAGA (a legal word!)?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I don't know why, but my 6th grade spelling teacher (still trips me out that we had an entire class of that in middle school!) was convinced it was misspelled more than any other word in English, so it was on our spelling test every week.<< Of course. It was a weekly occurrence.
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins Hey! I love letting the opponents look up words in the Scrabble dictionary. To me, scrabble's fun also lies in learning new words.
Originally Posted By danyoung Our rule was that it was OK to use the dictionary, but you were on your honor to NOT troll for words - you were just confirming if a word you had thought of either existed or didn't.
Originally Posted By iamsally One time we were playing and I spelled something like mrte (I am making it up because we never could remember exactly). Anyway, Rod questioned it so I looked it up. And it was a word. We have laughed about that for 35 years. But I was not trolling. I put down the word, then looked it up. Or is that up it looked?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I spelled something like mrte<< Under the new rules, you could spell Mr. T. : )
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon <<I just named my new kittens Eqzxj, Jxakz, Zjxql and Qxjkz>> Huh? Bet you can't say that 4 times fast!
