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Post by IgorPartola »

ecpottinger wrote: post #214
IgorPartola wrote: post #66

As a way to show off the capability of ligatures, more power to them. As an effort to censor, why in the ever loving fuck nuggets would you ever actually do that? I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. We felt that this wa…

I remember watching a interview where the curse words were bleat out on purpose. At the start the person was clear and easy to understand, but as the interview continued the person got angrier and angrier, and started to swear more. As time continue he was swearing more and more. At the end of the interview the teacher said "Clearly he was angry, what was he angry about?". No-one could answer, swear words carry some…

Bullshit.

:) see, I only said one word and you clearly understand my meaning.

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Post by IgorPartola »

Chris2048 wrote: post #275
dghughes wrote: post #250

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I'm amazed at British TV shows even whimsical gameshows where everyone swears like a sailor. But when someone dares to say the "c word" it's bleeped and everyone gasps.

I recall that the c-word used to be common too, then the idea that it was "the female n-word" was imported from the US.

As someone who has an Australian friend, the avoidance of that word is definitely not universal.

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Post by IgorPartola »

sbilstein wrote: post #118
hiccuphippo wrote: post #95

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ESL here. At school one teacher told us using swear words only show your lack of knowledge for better words. I took that to heart and the very few times I've used them, I really had no other option. However I've noticed swear words come more easily to me in English and don't feel as harsh as when I hear them in Spanish. I wonder if it's my lack of vocabulary.

Spanish-speaking at home but grew up in the US speaking english everywhere else. I've wondered all my life why swearing feels less intense in Spanish than in English. Spanish broadcasts are rarely censored on TV or Radio. Maybe it is a cultural thing?

I am also bilingual. My pet theory is that it has to do with growing up, family authority over you as a child, etc. As a kid if you say a strong curse word you could likely get in trouble and it would be a memorable negative experience. But if you say it in a different language outside your family home there is rarely a negative consequence.

My family was particularly absurd: my mother wouldn’t curse and wouldn’t say the word for shit in Russian but would use the English word “shit” as a curse word. Go figure.

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Post by oefnak »

umvi wrote: post #199
IgorPartola wrote: post #66

As a way to show off the capability of ligatures, more power to them. As an effort to censor, why in the ever loving fuck nuggets would you ever actually do that? I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. We felt that this wa…

Censorship (in my opinion) has a time and a place. And it should always be a choice, never forced on you. This is an extremely controversial topic that seems to get a lot of people's emotions running hot, so please try and counter that before responding. In my opinion, censorship of media is a personal preference akin to food aversions. Picking the mushrooms out of a chef's dish isn't censorship, nor an insult to his…

How can you tone that down?

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Post by mcv »

m463 wrote: post #247
mirimir wrote: post #239

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I liked "frack" and derivatives in BSG2.

I think a very creative movie was actually Johnny Dangerously Farghin' ice hole.

In The Witcher games they use "ploughing" instead of "fucking", which somehow sounds more obscene to me.

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Post by chwilson »

flurdy wrote: post #86

I once worked for an online game aimed at children. With some limited messaging and a forum, we needed to automatically filter swearing especially when it started to reach millions of users. The initial limited English only blacklists were useless. Kids are creative and terrible. So we replaced with big processes of failover with several external swearword filtering services. Costly... But kids are creative..., they…

Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet introduced me to the term "TTP" (Time To Penis), as a measure of how long before somebody makes a penis in an online, user-content based videogame

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Post by SamBam »

trophycase wrote: post #234
gen220 wrote: post #217

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At work, we have a trillion custom slack emojis, and one is a big X with the caption “no-just”, encouraging people to refrain using just in sentences like “you just need to set up the Kafka consumer”. Now that I’m writing this out, it sounds kinda dystopian , but I actually appreciate the doublethink. I believe that pruning “just” (and cousins like “really” “very”, “it” the direct object/noun, “something”) has increa…

But "you need to set up the Kafka consumer" and "you just need to set up the Kafka consumer" have different meanings. You're not just pruning, but changing the meaning. The latter implies there is only one thing you need to do, while the former is open ended, and could imply the beginning of a set of needs. "Just" can also add emphasis. "That's stupid" and "that's just stupid" have different nuance.

Perhaps the intent is to not be belittling, or, relatedly, not imply that something should be trivial for everyone.

If someone replied to me that I "just need to set up the Kafka consumer" I'd have no idea how to do that, and would potentially feel embarrassed about needing to ask for further information.

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Post by mrguyorama »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #186
alpaca128 wrote: post #103

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> Or rearranged their "room" with decoration that spelt out letters, or simply drew cock and balls, etc. A whole Lego MMO was once cancelled because they couldn't come up with an automated way to detect such things in virtual Lego buildings and using employees to filter the content became too expensive.

I don't understand that at all. Just have a "warning to parents: this is a sandbox game and may feature any shape - including body parts - built from Lego". 99% of parents wouldn't be bothered, surely? Every kid who has two opposite sex parents knows from toddler-hood what a penis and vulva look like, why is it such a problem??

>Every kid who has two opposite sex parents knows from toddler-hood what a penis and vulva look like

I don't think this is true.

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