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Why Germans don't play Scrabble
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02-01-2016, 08:23 AM
Can you imagine what the German Scrabble dictionary would be like?
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02-01-2016, 04:05 PM
Of course, I had to look it up. The sign in saying that the store is a distributor of floor polishing machines. German kids must have a great time when it comes to spelling tests.
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02-01-2016, 04:12 PM
Oh there's already a spelling mistake in there.
It should be "Fußbodenschleifmaschinenverleih", not "Fussbodenschleifmaschinenverleih". However, there is no capital ß. Too bad for people who insist on using caps lock.
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02-01-2016, 10:32 PM
I thought that was just a convention used by those who do not have the German letter available.
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02-02-2016, 12:44 AM
The Germans never play scrabble because the English are sore afraid that ATTENTION might lose to ACHTUNG and SNEEZE to GESUNDHEIT.
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02-02-2016, 07:17 AM
I would love to play "backpfeifengesicht." There was something through buzzfeed about 30 awesome words in other languages that need to be present in English. That one it said meant a face that cries out to be hit.
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02-03-2016, 06:38 AM
Insertnamehere Wrote:Wonder how many points you'd get for that one :eek: The point value of the letters themselves is 40, I love me some scrabble.
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02-03-2016, 07:49 PM
Lol alto i just had about that in history classes earlier today xD
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