06 April 2010

Tuesday's Candidate for Tweet of the Week (bkbrains Edition)

Tweeted by bkbrains:

Mattel opens gates of hell, allows proper nouns in Scrabble http://bit.ly/99QPBG


Keeping a sense of perspective, like most board game fans. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, this wasn't a case of Mattel losing their damn minds, but bad reporting.

This guest post from Stefan Fatsis at Slate's BrowBeat blog explains the misunderstanding and misreporting that lead to "Proper Nouns" becoming a trending topic on Twitter today.

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