Not true... not really feeling "snubbed" here! Spent most of my adult life in the US, never learned to play the mean game, so don't really care... :-)
- Emin ________________________________ From: Anna Razumnaya <[email protected]> To: The Moscow Expat List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 9:24:38 PM Subject: Re: Expat List listing- Scrabble Why not just ask for high-scoring players? There're lots of non-native speakers with foreign college education who love Scrabble and play a mean game. I am currently in Cambridge so I have no stake in joining the group, but I can see why Russian "expats" who are on this list because they've led most of their adult lives abroad would feel snubbed... I don't see why a low-scoring native would be preferable to a fluent foreign player who averages, say, 250 points a game. AR On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:26 AM, wab3 <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello Andrea, > >I understand your request for native english speakers only for your Scrabble >evening, I agree that it will be a lot less confusing and a quicker moving >game if every third or fourth word is not challenged by a player whose >spelling skills may be less than those of a native english speaker. Don't >waiver, set your own parameters for your evening get togethers, the >discrimination comment is false, without merit and quite honestly, none of his >business, if he does not like it he need not ask to join your group. > >Bill B > > >On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Andrea Wine <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >> >> >> >>>> >>>>Four of us have a twice-a-month evening Scrabble game going but want to add >>>>to the group. Native English speakers only. For info, pls contact me by >>>>email. >>>>Andrea Wine >> >>________________________________ Keep your friends updated— even when you’re not signed in. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>>>Expat mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat >>http://www.expat.ru/forum/ >> > > >-- >"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to >remain silent." .... Thomas Jefferson > >"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to >licentiousness." .... George Washington > >"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security >will deserve neither and lose both." .... Benjamin Franklin > >_______________________________________________ >>Expat mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat >http://www.expat.ru/forum/ > -- Anna Razumnaya The Editorial Institute at Boston University 143 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215
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