Am I a prude ?

Whilst I do not play on line games as you do HMHNanna I would keep to my own standards and play as you do now,I do believe smutiness leads on to more smutiness so I would rather loose a game than carry on with rude words.

Thanks glammanana. I play to win, but cannot bring myself to play rude words.

Spec savers moment there..did a double take as I thought it said HRHNanna though we had out first Royal GNetter

No Aka HMH are the initials of my three grandchildren. Sorry to disappoint you.

I also play on line scrabble. No idea who the people are or their age and sex. I try not to use rude words, but occasionally do use a word that is a bit doubtful, as do some of them. I have not used or seen used any really bad words.

Some of the people on-line post a photograph but I prefer not to. However I have "met" some really interesting people on Scrabble chat. I am playing with a lady in the USA at the moment who was caught up in the tornados and storms earlier this week. Also I am playing with a lady who is a scientist in Antarctica , and a young man in China who is studying to be a lawyer. There are many people who are trying to improve their English too.

I don't play scrabble online but do indulge in the board game occasionally. Being a very competitive person quite keen to win I will use any word found the the Oxford Dictionary.

If a word is not directed rudely at someone, it's not rude. Rudeness is defined by how things are said, not what is said. One can be disgustingly rude using only 'polite' words. If a word exists it's suitable for use in a game. Whether one would use the word elsewhere is another matter.

So, yes, I'd say your choice is prudish. However, it's your choice. I expect your opponents shrug and move on.

You did ask!

Thanks that bags I have just done YouGov survey which asked me what had made me laugh today. Your comment " Whether one would use the word elsewhere is another matter" really made me laugh.

Professor C. E. M. Joad of The Brains Trust was renown for opened his answers thus: "It all depends on what you mean by…"
It all depends on what YOU mean by a rude word.
Some consider many Anglo-Saxon, rather than the equivalent Norman-French, Latinate or Hellenic, words to be rude per se. Others rejoice in their use - D H Lawrence for example. It was, after all, the chief prosecutor, Mervyn Griffith-Jones,who during the trial of THAT publication asked if it were the kind of book "... you would wish your wife or servants to read".
The book was found NOT guilty!

Bags unless HMM chooses to say something like 'you'll never guess what I was tempted to use my K,C and U for, but restrained myself' how will opponents even know?

HMH

aka, does it matter if the opponent knows why, or even if, one has withdrawn from the game? They'll cotton on eventually, one assumes! It might matter if one were playing a friend, but many online opponents in games like Scrabble are just an unknown number.

I should say unknown numbers

Well... one recognises the numerals of course, but....

I think that the occasional rude word might be appropriate then if the book was found NOT guilty!

Aka your comments have also made me laugh, so I will try to use my K's , C's and U's where appropriate.

I wouldn't have a problem with it. We play a version of Rude Scrabble with double points or a rude word, triple for a French word and quadruple for a rude French word! It's just a bit of fun.

Ah yes Mishap but that is with people that you know. I don't know any of the people that I play with on-line , and say that I am old fashioned! I probably am.

My, somewhat, naive mother a few years ago was playing scrabble with my father and some friends. She put down the word W..k.r - her friends were horrified, my father said 'You can't use that word' she replied that W.....r was a word and that she was going to use it. She really did not know what it meant.

Flower of the west any Scrabble player knows that a W..k.r is a winker and not an offensive word at all. ( but she might have put something different).

HMH, I like your sense of humour