I think that friends would not look positively at my using words like:
TACE, INRO, HOLM, SORD, PHPHT, and so on... I better have memorized
their meaning if I'm going to use them, and even then! I think that I
would get around the problem by mostly only playing 5+ letter words,
avoiding 3-letter words, and only playing commonly known 4-letter
words (to neutralize their scores, as per the Board game rules), just
so that it doesn't look like I'm cheating and making up words...
Have you played? How'd it go, when playing with 'non-professionals'?
Catherine (Cacky)