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.<http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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