More Woke stuff: Scrabble being dumbed down

Quantum Erasure

doubleplus ungood

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122486166#Comment_122486166

This is commercial unaliveness.

Stark

Pretty sure the Gen Z "unalive" thing came about because social media sites were censoring "violent words". Bit disconcerting to see it print though.

magicbastarder

Is it allowed in Scrabble though?

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122486484#Comment_122486484

Unalived isn't, but it's only a matter of time...

(unalive, in the sense of unaware, is a valid word in British scrabble, but not the US version)

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122486166#Comment_122486166

I think that's more just cringe. I do get the reason "took their life" is preferred to "committed suicide". I'd say it's more a case of a committee deciding what sounds the most family friendly and it coming out as incredibly stupid.

dxhound2005

I think it's great to see the way the English language evolves. Such inventiveness. And regardless of people trying to get new usages banned from English, they either become widely adopted, or fade away. Not much mention of Wet Pubs these days, a phrase which caused much angst amongst the "you can't say that" brigade a while back.

"The use of unalive as a euphemistic slang term meaning “to kill” is thought to have been popularized by a 2013 episode of the animated show Ultimate Spider-Man, in which the character Deadpool says he is going to “unalive” a villain as part of a joke involving the avoidance of the word kill.

The social media use of unalive in the context of suicide increased in early 2022 on TikTok. The emergence of this use is thought to be related to TikTok policies prohibiting content related to self-harm, including removal of the hashtag #suicide as well as removal of content that uses the word suicide.

TikTok users began using unalive as a way to circumvent these restrictions, including in both in serious and nonserious posts. Variations of the term have also been used, including as hashtags. Such use has since spread to other social media sites."