I attempted to write:
“Your creating your own hell.” (h-e-l-l)
… and had to change it to:
“Your creating your own purgatory.”
Really ? We can’t say h-e-l-l, but can say purgatory ?
What about eternal damnation ? Hmmm… guess we can.
Feck!
As they say in Ireland…
God knows those who transgress… Hell hath no fury like a forum scorned.
Hell’s Bells !
Whereas “Hells Bells” just supports bad grammar !!
What “twat” chose the forbidden list ?
To some that allowed word is a much worse word… Twat - Wikipedia
Although “Robert Browning” famously used it [inadvertently] in his poem “Pippa Passes” !
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According to Dante they are quite different places…
I am not a friend of expletives in writing, but I am rather surprised that there is a list of forbidden words. Is it a new feature? It is not long ago that I protested to someone using the f*** word so any kind of automatic censorship was not at place then.
I would prefer good manners to censorship. I too say unprintable things (in Finnish) if I hit my thumb with a hammer, but I prefer that other people don’t hear.
Anssi
@DanRathbun, what the he// are saying that for anyway…
john
Can we still say Scunthorp.
I think ‘Autodesk’ should be the only ‘censored’ word…
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I thought they said “fook!”
Well…in Bahston, they frequently say Faahk!
Only if they can’t get scrod!
Huh… I live a 30min drive from Hell… (Hell) have to pass by it every time I travel to and from the airport. You could say I go through Hell and back every time I travel.
It’s not that of an exciting place - and it does freeze over every winter - but I see no reason for banning it’s utterance.
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Oh dear! In my book, the worse transgression is “YOUR” instead of the correct contraction “YOU’RE” for YOU ARE!
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Or…
Who would of thought it ?
For…
Who would have thought it ?
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Unfortunately, fighting grammatical and spelling errors is a hopeless battle in the face of online casual language. It do drive me nuts, but whut kin ya do?
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The death-penalty for poor grammer ?
[I had to retype that because my AutoHotKeys exe automatically fixed it to ‘*grammar*’ as I typed]
There are now built-in browser-based spell-checkers and other readily available free tools to correct common typos and poor grammar, so if you use English then there’s little excuse - if English is not your first language then Google Translate etc will help…]
Back to the OP… the issue is WHO is the Censor ?
Who decides what we can and can’t say ?
Seems to me that mild expletives are forbidden whilst others are allowed, and dual-meaning words like jerk in “knee_jerk [but not knee-jerk] reaction” are verboten…
I attempted to write:
“Your creating your own hell.” (h-e-l-l)
… and had to change it to:
“Your creating your own purgatory.”
Really ? We can’t say h-e-l-l, but can say purgatory ?
What about eternal damnation ? Hmmm… guess we can.
It is not the words alone. Usually they are also used in a sense that is meant to offend. ThomThom is the only person here to whom one can say “go to H____” and he only asks “Why?”
Anssi
@Anssi I agree - and the converse is also true: a poster can get flagged and dinged by a moderator for using an offensive tone even if there is no foul language involved. As stated in your earlier post, good manners and the moderation/flagging system ought to suffice. We don’t want this forum to degenerate into something akin to today’s movies, but sometimes a four-letter word is harmless or even humorous.
Yes - stop telling all people you don’t like to move closer to where I live!
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Perkele! 18…19…oh jumalauta My Favorite Things - Julie Andrews - YouTube
Just the thing to say when you hit your toe to a table leg…
Anssi