Scrabble to ban the word "culchie" in America.

I Am Nobody · 11-07-2020 8:44pm

I don't understand why Americans would ban culchie since that word doesn't exist in their vocabulary.Hillbilly,redneck,etc does though.I'm just baffled.

EmmetSpiceland · 11-07-2020 8:55pm

I Am Nobody wrote: »

I don't understand why Americans would ban culchie since that word doesn't exist in their vocabulary.Hillbilly,redneck,etc does though.I'm just baffled.

Yeah they say hayseed, hick and yokel too. But they’d be more akin to bumpkin, mullagh, bogtrotter, mulchie, ocker and other, more negative, “country” slurs.

But terms like culchie, itself, and townie, bogger, traveller, bogmen, rustics etc are just standard terms from our “rural” counterparts. They can subdivide themselves as much as they want.

nthclare · 11-07-2020 8:59pm

They're banning haymakers from boxing because it's offensive to boxer's.

Nick name's are banned too, because some purple haired dude who's gender no 47 was called 74 .

Dude isn't appropriate either.

Smiling is banned because that's perceived as being sneaky, no more laughing either

I Am Nobody · 11-07-2020 9:09pm

nthclare wrote: »

They're banning haymakers from boxing because it's offensive to boxer's.

Nick name's are banned too, because some purple haired dude who's gender no 47 was called 74 .

Dude isn't appropriate either.

Smiling is banned because that's perceived as being sneaky, no more laughing either

FFS so the hope of humanity now lies with the soft millennials to guide humanity.We are all fcuked.When did it become acceptable to be a pussy?

nthclare · 11-07-2020 9:16pm

I Am Nobody wrote: »

FFS so the hope of humanity now lies with the soft millennials to guide humanity.We are all fcuked.When did it become acceptable to be a pussy?

That word pussy is banned too, because it's only right to call a cat a feline.

So never hurt a cat's felines, feelings sorry.

The Irish word Bó as well as focail will be banned too.

Bó sounds like bow, which is a dangerous weapon.

These fruitcakes are absolute pussy's and they're getting away with their mantra.
But you have to remember they're a tiny minority.
So nobody really takes them seriously, they're kind of telpu's as in look at that creature God help us...

I don't know any one who's one of those snowflakes, they're usually on board's and other site's, YouTube etc

They're just not well.

Kylta · 11-07-2020 9:22pm

I hope they ban me from scrabble that way the shove the tiles up there hole

circadian · 11-07-2020 9:26pm

cj maxx wrote: »

Words with friends doesn't allow fag,jap and various other'offensive' words

Pretty sure those 'offensive' words are actually just, ya know, offensive.

circadian · 11-07-2020 9:29pm

nthclare wrote: »

They're banning haymakers from boxing because it's offensive to boxer's.

Nick name's are banned too, because some purple haired dude who's gender no 47 was called 74 .

Dude isn't appropriate either.

Smiling is banned because that's perceived as being sneaky, no more laughing either

You're the pinnacle of craic, as always.

nthclare · 11-07-2020 9:36pm

circadian wrote: »

You're the pinnacle of craic, as always.

Especially when I'm floating above the pinnacles, but never wait around for the tide to go out as those sharp rocks can cause havoc.

I try to Keep my sail in the right direction.

circadian · 11-07-2020 9:37pm

nthclare wrote: »

Especially when I'm floating above the pinnacles, but never wait around for the tide to go out as those sharp rocks can cause havoc.

I try to Keep my sail in the right direction.

I see what you did there, very clever.

Quantum Erasure · 11-07-2020 9:39pm

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Kylta · 11-07-2020 9:40pm

Pauliedragon wrote: »

As the title says apparantly scrabble will ban culchie and other terms deemed offensive. How would yanks (maybe yank is now offensive sorry mods) know the word culchie or does it mean something different over there?
#culchielivesmatter

Actually under the current climate who on boards is going to be playing scrabble in America anytime soon.
Now that I said that at least one cabbage is going to say they are

nthclare · 11-07-2020 9:42pm

circadian wrote: »

I see what you did there, very clever.

Thanks I appreciate your honesty.
I don't feel very clever sometimes but sure some validation now and again won't go astray

joe40 · 11-07-2020 10:15pm

nthclare wrote: »

They're banning haymakers from boxing because it's offensive to boxer's.

Nick name's are banned too, because some purple haired dude who's gender no 47 was called 74 .

Dude isn't appropriate either.

Smiling is banned because that's perceived as being sneaky, no more laughing either

What are you talking about?

nthclare · 11-07-2020 10:25pm

joe40 wrote: »

What are you talking about?

Can you not read ???
it's just a bit of craic.

You know exactly what I mean,but by asking me what I'm talking about is your way of undermining my post

That's ok though, you're entitled to that freedom...

Woke Hogan · 11-07-2020 10:35pm

nthclare wrote: »

Can you not read ???
it's just a bit of craic.

You know exactly what I mean,but by asking me what I'm talking about is your way of undermining my post

That's ok though, you're entitled to that freedom...

It's so embarrassing when someone who thinks they have a whipcrack wit just keeps going on and on. Jesus ****ing christ.

I Am Nobody · 11-07-2020 10:39pm

Vita nova wrote: »

I know you're probably trying to wind people up but on the off chance that you're serious let me enlighten you.

Culchie has been a synonym for country bumpkin for as long as I can remember, it's usually listed as a synonym in dictionaries; see https://www.lexico.com/definition/culchie under synonyms. I've seen culchies portrayed as bumpkins many many times in the media, usually in humourous way but that was the portrayal nonetheless.
As for redneck and hillbilly, they are US equivalents of culchie, in fact if you look up the list of banned words culchie is there alongside redneck. Also, hillbilly has a rural Irish/Scots-Irish etymology.

Also your definition of rural, albeit in inverted commas, is ridiculous. A townie by definition is not rural and afaik the CSO and OSI only regards towns of less than 2,000 people to be rural otherwise they are urban. Travellers are urban and rural but I'd say the vast majority live in towns and cities and fyi there are many born, bred and living in Dublin.

There are a lot of Irish immigrants and first and second generation Irish Americans in the US, also Americans that have worked in Ireland or are familiar with Irish culture would be familiar with the term, so in that respect it could be said to be part of the vast ethnic American vocabulary.

But you also have the vast southern folk embracing the hillbilly,redneck way of like.Even Duck Dynasty built their image on that.The dynamics of the South is very different to the North in America,The Northern folk will always berate southern lifestyles as backwards.It is a never ending cycle at this stage.

joe40 · 11-07-2020 10:49pm

nthclare wrote: »

Can you not read ???
it's just a bit of craic.

You know exactly what I mean,but by asking me what I'm talking about is your way of undermining my post

That's ok though, you're entitled to that freedom...

I absolutely value freedom. So if a Scrabble players association change their rules for their competitions it has zero impact on my life. They have every right to do so.

I will never be playing competitive Scrabble so I don't need to worry about it. If I'm playing Scrabble at home I can still use whatever words I want.

Of all the things going on in the world the actions of Scrabble players association should not really be high on anyone's list of priorities.

EmmetSpiceland · 11-07-2020 10:59pm

I Am Nobody wrote: »

But you also have the vast southern folk embracing the hillbilly,redneck way of like.Even Duck Dynasty built their image on that.The dynamics of the South is very different to the North in America,The Northern folk will always berate southern lifestyles as backwards.It is a never ending cycle at this stage.

Very true, I was watched ‘Ken Burns’ Country Music’ recently and, in it, one of the first groups were called “The Hillbillys” and early country was known as “hillbilly music”.

The reason the band were called “The Hillbillys” because when they were asked what they should be called they responded with something like ‘call us what you want, we’re just a bunch of hillbillys’.

A lot of the time it depends on who’s using the “term”, and how. If a yank calls use a “Paddy” it’s no big deal but if a Brit does it we get offended.

It’s all about perspective, people.

joe40 · 11-07-2020 11:18pm

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Just trying guess which words Board's won't allow. Is there a list somewhere. Got 3 so far. Maybe that is all there is.

nthclare · 11-07-2020 11:23pm

joe40 wrote: »

I absolutely value freedom. So if a Scrabble players association change their rules for their competitions it has zero impact on my life. They have every right to do so.

I will never be playing competitive Scrabble so I don't need to worry about it. If I'm playing Scrabble at home I can still use whatever words I want.

Of all the things going on in the world the actions of Scrabble players association should not really be high on anyone's list of priorities.

So are you a rule on to the authorities of what people can post about.

There's a lot going on in the world alright, but some of us can rise above.

So why are you suggesting that the rules of Scrabble isn't high on your agenda ?
Then you comment on a post about the rules of Scrabble.

Seriously I sometimes wonder about people and their contradictions.

I never said anything about you or went out of my way to hurt your feelings.

Do you value the freedom of people who like a bit of banter ???

By the way I'm slightly dyslexic so you can observe away

joe40 · 11-07-2020 11:55pm

nthclare wrote: »

So are you a rule on to the authorities of what people can post about.

There's a lot going on in the world alright, but some of us can rise above.

So why are you suggesting that the rules of Scrabble isn't high on your agenda ?
Then you comment on a post about the rules of Scrabble.

Seriously I sometimes wonder about people and their contradictions.

I never said anything about you or went out of my way to hurt your feelings.

Do you value the freedom of people who like a bit of banter ???

By the way I'm slightly dyslexic so you can observe away

Apologies if it was just a bit of banter.
It's just that when you say things like "these fruitcakes are pussys and they're getting away with this mantra"
It's sounds like you're making a serious point about a serious issue.

nthclare · 11-07-2020 11:58pm

joe40 wrote: »

Apologies if it was just a bit of banter.
It's just that when you say things like "these fruitcakes are pussys and they're getting away with this mantra"
It's sounds like you're making a serious point about a serious issue.

No worries, sometimes I get confused in post's and dive right in and read back and realized that I got it all wrong...

I just like a bit of harmless banter

TornadoAli · 12-07-2020 11:48am

I've never heard of a culchie. Sounds a bit like coochie to me?!

Capt'n Midnight · 12-07-2020 12:39pm

nthclare wrote: »

The Irish word Bó as well as focail will be banned too.

There's focail reason to ban words because people will just find new words to workaround a ban. You are just driving the problem underground until the new words become known and then banned.

Gaze : Two men who who look steadily and longingly into each other's eyes.

I don't want to live in a world where old literature gets banned because the words used were OK then but were changed in meaning because other words were banned by people who wanted to sweep things under the rug rather than confronting the attitudes.

There was a time when blasphemy was a very, very serious issue. Back then they punished people who used words incorrectly rather than banning the words.

El_Duderino 09 · 12-07-2020 12:41pm

Listened to a quick interview with the scrabble guys behind this decision. They're just not going to award points for Intentionally offensive words. At the moment they award points for any proper word that appears in the formal dictionaries. They're not going to award points for words like the dreaded n word.

The guy commented that if you have the letters for the dreaded n word then you could just play the word 'ginger' instead. Which I thought was funny.

https://overcast.fm/+B7u_w_NY

cdeb · 12-07-2020 12:57pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

The guy commented that if you have the letters for the dreaded n word then you could just play the word 'ginger' instead. Which I thought was funny.

Well, unless it doesn't fit on the board of course.

Not to mention that "ginger" is a bit of an insulting term too, in its own small way. Certainly as insulting as culchie anyway.

Vita nova · 12-07-2020 1:10pm

cdeb wrote: »

Well, unless it doesn't fit on the board of course.

Not to mention that "ginger" is a bit of an insulting term too, in its own small way. Certainly as insulting as culchie anyway.

Not even remotely! and I say that as a red haired ruralite.

cdeb · 12-07-2020 1:16pm

Pronounced to rhyme with "singer" and it is intended as an insult.

It's minor of course - around the same severity as "culchie".

You can't argue one and not the other I think. (I'll argue neither is insulting of course)

Vita nova · 12-07-2020 1:35pm

cdeb wrote: »

Pronounced to rhyme with "singer" and it is intended as an insult.

It's minor of course - around the same severity as "culchie".

You can't argue one and not the other I think. (I'll argue neither is insulting of course)

You're contradicting yourself, you literally (;)) said "Not to mention that "ginger" is a bit of an insulting term too, in its own small way" in your previous post. And as I indicated from the point of view of this red haired ruralite, it's not even remotely as insulting irrespective of how ginger is pronounced.

Scrabble to ban the word "culchie" in America.

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