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2007-03-25, 11:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2007-03-25, 11:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2007-03-26, 12:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-03-26, 12:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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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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2007-03-26, 12:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-03-26, 02:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
Apparently, your sophopmore english teacher was a real boop
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 #6Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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2007-03-26, 03:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-03-26, 04:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-03-26, 04:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-03-26, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
I will take neither your crap nor your ****.
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2007-03-26, 09:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-03-26, 09:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-03-26, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-03-26, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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.
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2007-03-26, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-03-26, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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2007-03-26, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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2007-03-26, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-03-26, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2007-03-26, 04:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-03-26, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-03-26, 04:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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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.Last edited by Scientivore; 2007-03-26 at 04:52 PM.
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2007-03-27, 06:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
Originally Posted by JayabalardLast edited by Gitman00; 2007-03-27 at 06:53 AM.
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2007-04-10, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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)
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2007-04-10, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-04-11, 12:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
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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2007-04-11, 07:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-11, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2007-04-11, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2007-04-11, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Anyone notice that Parson managed to curse?
they would wouldnt they
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