Re notable from #8439

>>6599893 HRC twat - scrabble update (pb)

The new additions to the Scrabble acceptable words list is interesting. I’ve categorized them in the included pictures.

Blue: political/cultural-political (with a left bias) - 14

Red: political/cultural-political (with a right bias) - 1

Yellow: Older/outdated cultural phrase - 5

Green: Newer (in) cultural phrases (Some of these might be older, i don’t know) - 5

Grey: Interesting choice - 1

(On the new/old cultural phrases - my thinking was that bae is still in use, but I think fleek is out. The old category was more for ok and ew)

Over half the list is blue. The one red one thrown in balances out a gender-based blue one and might be described as either ideologically left or right, I think.

When I saw “ok,” I couldn’t help but think of the “white supremacy” hand sign that’s been in the news.

I bet Hilary figured it out because she was trying to use Qapik on a triple letter score.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/new-scrabble-words-2019-the-terms-that-are-now-officially-recognised-for-use-in-the-popular-board-game/