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Working Title: Kwyjibo: From YKTTW

Fast Eddie: Who in their right mind is ever going to find or use this title?

Seanette: I agree with the need for at least a more obvious alternate title, but this is definitely a valid trope.

Fast Eddie: Assuredly, but it needs a title someone will actually find or use. A redirect would do.

alliterator: How about Scrabble Babble?

Fast Eddie: Loving that. Doing that. Did that!.

alliterator: I fixed the indices - none of them were right (how is this a newspaper comic or a board game?).

Seanette: Huh? Am I just not awake yet, or did I miss an important detail here? Scrabble IS a board game. I'll fix that index.

Seanette: Attn: Ninjacrat, in case you didn't notice, while the title itself is not a board game, it's a trope ABOUT a board game. Reverting your hatcheting of index, and will keep doing so until someone presents an actual *reason* a trope specifically ABOUT a board game does not belong on the Board Games index.

Ninjacrat: There's nothing I am interested in less than getting in an edit war. However, I will firmly restate that putting a thing that is not a boardgame on an index of boardgames is a silly idea. Especially if you don't actually link it on that index page.

alliterator: Ahem, this trope is not about a board game: it is about fake words made up during the play of a board game. Thus, it doesn't belong in the Board Games index. Scrabble itself does, but not this trope.

Seanette: Can we try this again, with some actual logic as to how a trope whose sole existence focuses on a board game is not relevant to the Board Games index? If the game itself didn't exist, the trope wouldn't.

alliterator: But the Board Games index is about games not tropes (even if they're tropes about games). I moved this to the Game Tropes index, where it's a better fit.

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Devils Advocate: De-nattering the entry on "quidnunc" in ALF, but preserving the deleted discussion here for reference:

• Sounds like we need a trope for You Fail Scrabble Forever...foreign words are definitely NOT allowed in Scrabble, only the players' vernacular language or the agreed-upon language the players choose, if different from their own. But the game is definitely meant to be played one language at a time.
  • Au contraire, "quidnunc" is an English word. It's just derived from Latin.
  • ...and it hasn't been used by anyone anywhere in like a century, so whatever. You might as well allow Old English words.
  • Scrabble rules explicitly allow archaic and obsolete words. The only restriction on how archaic they can be is what's included in whatever dictionary the players agree to use. (And quidnunc isn't exactly so obscure you have to use the OED to find it, either.)