Am I the only one who thought Mack was going to play SeXFARM in that last example?
@Mizai Жыл бұрын
😂
@mackmeller Жыл бұрын
LOL
@AlexDings Жыл бұрын
TH is a very reasonable word, the definition being: the sound that my fellow Germans and me can't pronounce for the life of us 😅
@DadgeCity Жыл бұрын
Seems that a lot of English people can't pronounce it any more 😢
@psymar8 ай бұрын
@@DadgeCityDepends on which th. The th in "the" I thought until age 20 was just an L sound as nobody corrected me!
@samuelcheung47997 ай бұрын
@@psymarso you have been unknowingly using a French word!
@Lembo1017 ай бұрын
My linguistics professor explained this by saying some cultures just can't bring themselves to stick their tongues out between their teeth (what you have to do to say it right), as sticking out your tongue would be bad manners.
@koura78833 ай бұрын
You can make the TH sound by itself by placing your tongue in between your teeth and blowing air out of your open mouth. The “TH” in “the” is pronounced the same way that you would say “duh,” but you place your tongue in between your teeth while you make the first sound in the word.
@manaphylv100 Жыл бұрын
I played LOLICON a few times on ISC, and I honestly didn't know it wasn't a word because nobody ever challenged it. (FYI: LOLI isn't a word, either, but JAILBAIT is - I know because an opponent challenged it and failed...) I also played LYCORIS many times without knowing it wasn't accepted, until someone challenged it off, thinking I misspelled LICORICE. Why this isn't accepted when PRIMULA is, I have no idea... Oh, and RESPAWN isn't a word! Like, are you kidding me!?
@Mizai Жыл бұрын
rip
@Ascension721 Жыл бұрын
lol i cant believe this
@Columbine-en3qc9 ай бұрын
What really bugs me is the fact that brrr is a word while grrr is not.
@LegoGuy20489 күн бұрын
@@Columbine-en3qc but grr with 2 r's is valid and so is grrrl
@ATrueZen Жыл бұрын
Nothing like refreshing my feed and seeing a phony video 2 minutes ago. Keep putting out the great content!
@mackmeller Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@psymar8 ай бұрын
Instead of TREEHILL I might've tried THRILLEE (someone who has met the THRILLER)
@jellomochas Жыл бұрын
LACEWEED* on the NUTSUIT board
@glowstonelovepad92942 ай бұрын
With SH as a word (and CH in the international dictionary), TH doesn't seem that implausible.
@BrettMKW Жыл бұрын
I'm proud of the fact I would have challenged some of these off! Obviously TH was just a brain fart by both players but disregarding that I actually know the JQXZ bingos, for some reason I found them more fun to learn than the high prob ones so I just went and did it. PESANQUA, SAXIFORM, and SEXTORCE would have come off the board. Maybe you were thinking of GASIFORM when you played SAXIFORM. That's the closest valid word I can think of.
@etymonlegomenon931 Жыл бұрын
SAXIFRAGE
@samakafrisco1759 Жыл бұрын
great nod to New Super Mario Bros. U from Josh
@BSplitt9 ай бұрын
You should do a video where you showcase instances when players *tried* to play a phony but accidentally played valid words 😂
@andrewmilner-white9988 Жыл бұрын
Weirdly, One Tree Hill is also the name of a place in Auckland (NZ) though the tree has now gone! It's also the name of a U2 song named after that place.
@mackmeller Жыл бұрын
Ah, cool! I feel like I've heard the song but would never have known the origin of the name
@johnwilder4789 Жыл бұрын
I would suspect Cesar was blending SESTERCE (valid) and *SEXTORTION (invalid). Merriam Webster recently added SEXTORTION to the dictionary and it's possible it will be included within the next Scrabble dictionary update
@mackmeller Жыл бұрын
Ah, perhaps! SEXTING was added in the last update so I wouldn't be surprised
@Forensource7 ай бұрын
TUNNELMEN seems plausible.
@etymonlegomenon931 Жыл бұрын
SEXTORCE sounds like it could be Spanish 17 after ONCE DONCE TRECE CATORCE. SAXIFORM sounds like SAXIFRAGE
@CyberchaoX28 күн бұрын
Sixteen, not seventeen, but yes. I was absolutely thinking about how quatorze is a valid word, although that uses the z instead of the c.
@kennynolan736 Жыл бұрын
SAXIFRAGE is a word, maybe that's what Mack was thinking of?
@mackmeller Жыл бұрын
Yeah probably a cross between that and many somewhat similar FORM words like GASIFORM
@danielzitnik4247 Жыл бұрын
Question: sometimes they add words to the Scrabble dictionary. Do they ever take words out? And if so, are there any famous examples of a word being removed from the dictionary, played in a tournament game, and challenged off?
@blackeyefly Жыл бұрын
A few years ago they removed a number of words considered offensive such as racist/sexist/homophobic slurs. I'm not sure whether Scrabble tournaments use the new dictionary though
@johnwilder4789 Жыл бұрын
Not a "famous example," but in a recent tournament my opponent played SQUAW and I challenged it off, knowing per the previous comment that this had recently been expurgated from the official wordlist. My opponent was shocked to see it come off the word, and ironically had used a blank for the W and coud have made SQUAD or SQUAT. Interestingly, it's possible you could still see SQUAW within valid plays since it's still playable within longer valid words such as SQUAWFISH, SQUAWBUSH, and SQUAWROOT (I'll give a shoutout to the etymologically unrelated SQUAWKING as well). The NASPA "Dictionary Committee" does occassionally decide to remove words outside of the expurgation mentioned above if they determine that they errored in including it in the first place and it lacks lexicographical evidence. For example, a few years ago they removed the inflections of SUETY -- SUETIER / SUETIEST -- for this reason, and I suspect there are multiple instances of tournament players challenging this off since. In the late 90s (maybe even into the early 2000s) "PH" used to be a playable Scrabble word (as in pH / acidity). I think the thinking was, "hey the first letter is lowercase, and there's some ambiguity over the status of the acronym, so I guess it's a word?" That got kicked from the Scrabble dictionary pretty early on.
@mackmeller Жыл бұрын
Aside from the words expurgated for being offensive, a famous example is DA. DA was good until I believe either 1998 or 2006 (a more longtime player can confirm here), when it was removed. Then it was added back in 2014, and is still good today!
@GreaterJan Жыл бұрын
JEW, GOY and other Jewish-related words were removed for having offensive definitions (not the proper noun "Jew", but the offensive verb "to jew (someone)")
@almightyhydra Жыл бұрын
Couple of interesting results if you google "saxiform" - it's an album title and a scientific term, apparently.
@stevenwilmes2572 Жыл бұрын
Love the phony videos, such an interesting aspect of tournament scrabble play!
@ritwikism10 ай бұрын
What did you get confused with? Salpiform? Gasiform? Vasiform? Aciform? Arciform? I guess there's too many forms
@limbolegs Жыл бұрын
these are some one my favourite videos by you :)
@Forensource7 ай бұрын
Someone played FOGHAT against Robin P.
@rumpelRAINS Жыл бұрын
Hilarious video 😂
@GreaterJan Жыл бұрын
I love the phony series!
@paperpopper1290 Жыл бұрын
sextorce reminds me of sextuors
@Mizai Жыл бұрын
why is "AA" even a thing
@Grignard Жыл бұрын
Blame the Hawaiians ;-)
@meta04 Жыл бұрын
it's... a specific kind of lava, I think? it comes from a language where there are like one dozen letters instead of two dozen...
@galoomba555911 ай бұрын
It comes from Hawaiian ʻaʻā, and then English removed the two ʻ consonants apparently.
@theguywhopostsrandomvids9 ай бұрын
Blame Hawaii, not the UK
@manaphylv1009 ай бұрын
I always thought AA referred to the battery size, and AI was just the acronym for "artificial intelligence."