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Scrabble players quit game after 400 offensive words banned from list (www.news.com.au)

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This article is 3 years old.
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/
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

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

TF is a dogan?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Canadian slur for Irish Catholics, apparently.

🤷

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Interesting. I didn't know Canada had their own racial slurs, I figured they imported them from the US and UK.