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#4723 - 09/07/00 10:39 AM Re: Scrabble
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Is it difficult, for one who is bilingual, to remember which language set you're playing with, and therefore which words are "foreign" and illegal?
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#4724 - 09/07/00 11:57 AM Re: Scrabble
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	> Is it difficult, for one who is bilingual, to remember which language set you're playing with, and therefore which words are "foreign" and illegal? The people I play Scrabble with, it's difficult to remember which is legal, foreign or otherwise in one language - but that's because they are all cheats !
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#4725 - 09/07/00 12:19 PM Re: Scrabble
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	The people I play Scrabble with...are all cheats ! Learned from you, did they?
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#4726 - 09/07/00 01:28 PM Re: Scrabble
Brandon enthusiast Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 218 Loc: Mountain West, USA	The people I play Scrabble with are all cheats ! Long live the awesome power of the bluff. And bluffing isn't cheating. The Scrabble creators took this into account when they established a penalty for challenging a word and losing the challenge. It's tough to bluff true wordsmiths (which is why I'd never play tsuwm). One must have excellent wordsmithing skills for both the offensive and defensive positions of the game. Bluff, another word we owe to those Dutch settlers. Brandon
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#4727 - 09/07/00 03:34 PM Re: Scrabble
apples + oranges newbie Registered: 08/30/00 Posts: 46 Loc: Canada	>>Is it difficult, for one who is bilingual, to remember which language set you're playing with, and therefore which words are "foreign" and illegal? I don't get confused when I play English scrabble. I've never played Polish scrabble, but I don't think I'd have difficulty with it. Maybe it's because English and Polish are such different languages, but I suppose it's because I have always kept, or tried to keep, the two languages separate. "A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?" JANE WAGNER
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