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Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
Seems everyone's been too distracted by the whole Wanda/Jillian thing to notice, but Parson managed to say "crap" instead of "boop" in #36.
I would guess that Parson gets censored only when using a word as profanity, and not when using it literally (as he could be considered to be doing in this case). But then, Wanda uses the same word in a profane way in #6 and doesn't get censored.
Maybe only Parson suffers from this? Has anyone else had their curse-words "booped" out?
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
No one else has. And Sizemore has mentioned "Crap Golems," so it isn't without precedent.
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You know, I never understood why "crap" was considered a curse word. It's never censored on the tele or radio. And I was never sent to the principal's office for saying crap when I was a kid.
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
I would imagine that it means "crap" is not a word that would get "boopified"
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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jami
You know, I never understood why "crap" was considered a curse word. It's never censored on the tele or radio. And I was never sent to the principal's office for saying crap when I was a kid.
Its not, but that didnt stop my sophomore english teacher from kicking me out of her class every day. I mean, damn, I cant help it, its a major part of my vocabulary.
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Apparently, your sophopmore english teacher was a real boop :smallamused:
As far as "crap" goes, it's a swear on the same order as "stinky-head" and "tinkle." Besides, we've already seen Wanda get away with it inn Erf #6
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The swear is [ugh, sigh, the worse form that starts with an S]. That's the one that gets censored, clearly. The normal form is crap.
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It's pretty weird when you think about the fact that crap and sh** are all but interchangeable in meaning but one is censored word and the other one is usually considered acceptable. I would like to see an instance where for example, it's okay to take someone's crap, but not to take their sh**.
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Originally Posted by
Glome
I would like to see an instance where for example, it's okay to take someone's crap, but not to take their sh**.
Didn't Sizemore just do exactly that? :smallwink:
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
I will take neither your crap nor your ****.
I believe this board censors the same way regarding those two words...
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Laugh. You guys would get a kick out of the Danish language.. The 'S' word, as you all call it, is just a normal part of vocabulary and is totaly acceptable to be used by young children, little old ladies, your sunday school teacher, the evening news (who say/show a lot worse), and yes, even your own mother. If you ever heard of the German children's book, "The little mole, who wanted to know who made 'one' on his head," well, Danish is the only language in the world where they actually just called it S***, instead of using the thousands of polite ways of saying it, which was kinda the whole point of the book... dealing with taboo subjects. Its just not taboo in Denmark.
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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Originally Posted by
Glome
It's pretty weird when you think about the fact that crap and sh** are all but interchangeable in meaning but one is censored word and the other one is usually considered acceptable. I would like to see an instance where for example, it's okay to take someone's crap, but not to take their sh**.
For every single swear word there is another word with the exact same meaning that is perfectly acceptable to say, and usually one or two words with the same meaning that are semi-innapropriate to say.
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Aliquid
For every single swear word there is another word with the exact same meaning that is perfectly acceptable to say, and usually one or two words with the same meaning that are semi-inappropriate to say.
That all goes back to the days when all those damned, barbaric Anglo-saxon peasants used short, simple Germanic words for bodily functions ... when every "civilized" (i.e., noble or church) person used far more complex (and thus genteel) French or Latin words. The peasants' language was considered crude and inappropriate, and thus became, over time, taboo.
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Being an American, I found it interesting when I visited Ireland that their version of sh**, when the vowel is pronounced as the diphthong "ai," is also considered about the same level of intensity as "crap". And yeah, I always thought it was weird that you have two words, both four letters and one syllable, completely synonymous in meaning, but one is considered profane and one isn't. :smallconfused:
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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Gitman00
Being an American, I found it interesting when I visited Ireland that their version of sh**, when the vowel is pronounced as the diphthong "ai," is also considered about the same level of intensity as "crap".
I don't know what company you were mixing with but sh*te, which I assume you're referring to, is certainly not used in "polite company" :smallwink:
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Om
I don't know what company you were mixing with but sh*te, which I assume you're referring to, is certainly not used in "polite company" :smallwink:
Well, then neither is "crap" in America. Let's face it, most polite company situations don't involve the need to reference excrement...
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Raveler1
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Originally Posted by Om
I don't know what company you were mixing with but sh*te, which I assume you're referring to, is certainly not used in "polite company" :smallwink:
Well, then neither is "crap" in America. Let's face it, most polite company situations don't involve the need to reference excrement...
QFT. Although I will admit I spent plenty of time in the pubs while I was there. :smallsmile: The Guinness was fantastic, and I was fond of Murphy's as well.
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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Originally Posted by
Glome
it's okay to take someone's crap, but not to take their sh**.
man I wanna see someone get angry at Sizemore now ;) see if he'd take their sh** after all the crap he's taken before :D
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
am i the only one who makes up words and/or meanings anymore?
when someone at work agitates me i call them a human, they think im being funny (its a joke that management thinks we're a bunch of slow turtles) but i know what im calling them.
i also use mamal, stoogid, and any chineese i can remember from firefly.
a little more on topic, if certan words are not to be used in good company, and you do use the words, should you be where you are with the people you are with?
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Courtesy is axle grease of society. If you're rough with the expectation of not damaging the relationship then you must either be bonded or out of touch. You only need lubricant if there's both pressure and counter-movement.
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Gitman00
one is considered profane and one isn't. :smallconfused:
Obscene, not profane... even though they're commonly misused to mean the same thing, they have slightly different meanings.
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
Yeah, "obscene" is "offensive", "profane" is "sacreligious" and "vulgar" is "common".
When I was younger, I made an effort to remove obscenities from my speech. Society helped by becoming less easily offended.
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Originally Posted by Jayabalard
Obscene, not profane... even though they're commonly misused to mean the same thing, they have slightly different meanings.
Yes, well, I was using the vernacular. Since so-called "curse words" are generally referred to as "profanity," it's a valid use of the word. Though you're probably right, "obscene" would be a better choice.
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Yep, it's worthwhile breaking down swearwords into their basic categories. Near as I can see it, these are the main ones, in general ascending order of how offended people tend to get about them:
Scatological (crap etc.)
Lewd (referring to sex or sex-related anatomy in crude or direct ways)
Profane (sacriligious)
Have I missed anything?
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Crap is a "booped" word on city of heroes, which always highly amuses me. It makes it seem far worse than it really is when it's changed to @$#*
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meh, i have played games where "tit" is censored by replacing it with "breast", even if it's inside another word. Makes it hard to talk about things like "titans", "titles", or or many other words which use those three letters in sequence... yet it is not an uncommon filter.
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paddyfool
Yep, it's worthwhile breaking down swearwords into their basic categories. Near as I can see it, these are the main ones, in general ascending order of how offended people tend to get about them:
Scatological (crap etc.)
Lewd (referring to sex or sex-related anatomy in crude or direct ways)
Profane (sacriligious)
Have I missed anything?
Dutch has a whole category of swearwords based on diseases :) Typhus, cancer, tuberculosis, cholera, the plague, and the pox all get their turn.
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
well i have always been told that there is a stigma between "crap" and "sh**" becasue of how the two words came into being, more so the word "sh**"
it is an old english sailing term, back in the days of tall ships they used to bring cow poop on trips because it burned well and didnt take up too much room, but manure has this nasty habit of producing methane when mixed with salt water, so on the crate of manure they put lables on it
S hip
H igh
I n
T ransit
so the word itself has a negitive conotation to it leading to metal images of the really poor working with "sh**" thus its a "bad word"
"i dont want to deal with this sh**"
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Ben_the_dragon
it is an old english sailing term, back in the days of tall ships they used to bring cow poop on trips...
Wikipedia and Snopes disagree with that theory. :)
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