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Former Member
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pwcr, how do you feel about taking a vacation from UK and go Base Camping for a week or so?
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Former Member
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Hello all, And this is a friendly account from the viewpoint of a Dane. This is a friendly reminder to please only use words that are not profane in these threads. Thank you, ErikaT English is my second language, ErikaT, and in general to me a word in a word game is a word. I know one that I have avoided so far, though, even as it is probably not profane at all. If you think of 'penis' which I have used - with the comment of 'I better get it over with' because my co-gamers seemed to have bumped into a jolly period of puberty - it is an anatomic reality, not a profanity, in my world. If you think of '****' used by another gamer with English as a second language, it's just a word describing a certain idea of the female sex to me. Sometimes it can be difficult to gauge the depth of one single word, and offense may be something you chose to take or not. American and Danish ideas of profanity may differ a lot. Who has been offended by any word used here and why? I am aware that depiction of the female breast is no longer comme il faut in the USA. But where would I - as a Dane - be able to familiarize myself with current American limits for verbal profanity? Is there a list of don'ts somewhere? I have in a few cases with some regret chosen selfcensorship in the case of some words which I have knowledge of would be politically incorrect but which still are words. *edited to appropriate forum language - ErikaT [Edit 1 times, last edit by ErikaT at Feb 5, 2018 4:14:03 PM] |
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BladeD
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And I just made the 26000 post to this game topic!
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And I just made the 26000 post to this game topic!  26000! You ought to make an announcement here, BladeD. How did you do that? Your current post count it approximately 8431 Have you had - do you have  - multiple personalities?  |
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Former Member
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I want a turbo contraption for my brain
 - all of a sudden .... it dawned on that mermaid  You said game topic, BladeD ... I didn't think along those lines at all  Pour me some of that coffee, please, the PecosRiver M way Hot, black, strong - it's not good to drink alone  |
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BladeD
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Good to have you back.
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello all, And this is a friendly account from the viewpoint of a Dane. This is a friendly reminder to please only use words that are not profane in these threads. Thank you, ErikaT English is my second language, ErikaT, and in general to me a word in a word game is a word. I know one that I have avoided so far, though, even as it is probably not profane at all. If you think of 'penis' which I have used - with the comment of 'I better get it over with' because my co-gamers seemed to have bumped into a jolly period of puberty - it is an anatomic reality, not a profanity, in my world. If you think of '****' used by another gamer with English as a second language, it's just a word describing a certain idea of the female sex to me. Sometimes it can be difficult to gauge the depth of one single word, and offense may be something you chose to take or not. American and Danish ideas of profanity may differ a lot. Who has been offended by any word used here and why? I am aware that depiction of the female breast is no longer comme il faut in the USA. But where would I - as a Dane - be able to familiarize myself with current American limits for verbal profanity? Is there a list of don'ts somewhere? I have in a few cases with some regret chosen selfcensorship in the case of some words which I have knowledge of would be politically incorrect but which still are words. From the Communication Guidelines:
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Former Member
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Good to have you back. Thank you, BladeD. I never left. It's just my brain and my fatigue. I have to study which one of my four new medications 'helps' me this way ....  I may be kicked out before we know ....  Let's have another coffee laced with something encouraging, eh?  Prohibition is off, isn't it?  |
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Aurum
Master Cruncher The Great Basin Joined: Dec 24, 2017 Post Count: 2386 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What is this dirty word you're talking about Erika??? It seems to be tepe but when I looked it up, nothing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tepe
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Former Member
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Aurum420, it was a not-so-nice word about some women's occupation and such posted by German [SG] Thomas Kleinhenn in what I interpreted as probably a phase of puberty playfulness. Something that is best cured if not paid too much attention to in my #Metoo experience.
The word has - as far as a search from me turns up - disappeared. Doesn't exist any more in the name of protecting family values. So much for  Freedom of Speech Perhance the Founding Fathers didn't get it quite right ..... - but rules exist to be obeyed or .... The word 'penis' however seems to be OK   |
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