Sunday, April 11, 2010

Scrabble Rule Change - Awesome? No?

As I was reading about the new Scrabble rule change (proper names are now acceptable), something struck me - is this great, or a sign that America is getting dumber?

Yes, it opens up a world of possibility in terms of what you can actually play, but now anyone with an almost non-existent vocabulary can win playing words like "Miley" and "Bieber," or even worse, "Dan", "John", "Sue", etc. Basically, I'm not sure the rule change is necessary.

This is a rant more than anything. I have no actual proof that this rule change was brought on by the dumbing down of America. And reading over it, I'm not even sure I made my point.

1 comment:

  1. I agree.

    Luckily, they're still producing the original.

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