@micahhasenburg,
mcahhasenburg wrote:Does playing Scabble increase your vocabulary
1)
Scabble isn't a word.
Scrabble, with an 'r', is better, but even that is just a name.
2) Although
Scrabble does increase my vocabulary, it doesn't really extend the number of words I can use. For example,
QAT and
QI are incredibly useful words for scoring lots of points with those dreaded
Q stones. Neither of them, however, helps me say anything I want to say in actual conversation.
3) On a note somewhat related to #2: As a non-native speaker of English, I find it relatively easy to guess which combinations of letters are likely to be words. In online versions of
Scrabble, I can test these predictions against Scrabble's built-in dictionary and modify them as necessary. Having done that, I can then add more letters to the word to make an even longer one. This turns out to be a very effective way to come up with new words -- but there's a catch: This procedure leaves me totally ignorant of what the newly-cobbled words mean. That's another reason Scrabble isn't extending my active English vocabulary all that much.