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She thought it would help her eight year old with his vocabulary, but this mother was not expecting a game of Scrabble on the DS to expand his word knowledge quite so much.
The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK has a reputation as being something
of an angry publication. usually it is venting that anger towards the
direction of the government, illegal immigrants or high levels of crime and low levels of policing. You get the idea, I am sure.
Which is probably why an angry story
about peaceful and nerdy Scrabble caught my eye this week.
It seems that Tonya Carrington bought her eight year old sone Ethan a
game of Scrabble for the Nintendo DS console, with a view to helping
him improve his vocabulary. Ethan immediately got down to playing
against the cast of virtual opponents.
Of course, Scrabble players take the game very seriously and use any
available words to win. A competitive streak that apparently stretches
to virtual players as well.
First off the DS player used 'tits' which it defined as being a garden
bird, although it did also admit it could be an informal world for a
pair of breasts. OK, you could probably let that one slip. But when the
DS also used sh*t, Mum started getting worried.
Next was 'toke' which is slang for drawing from a cannabis cigarette, but the best or worst was still to come.
To cap things off not so nicely, the game was won by Camilla the
computer player triumphantly producing the word triple word scoring
'f*ckers' which it said was a slang word for chavs.
For everyone not resident in the UK, a chav is also a slang word for a kind of
common council-estate criminal underclass youngster over here.
Of course, the Daily Mail went off on one as the DS Scrabble game
carries a 3+ age rating. Of course, Ubisoft who publish the game were
quick to point out that if Ethan had played the 'junior' game option
then the swears would not have been used.
Still, it could have been worse. At least his DS console didn't try to kill him.
David Bass
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