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Re: LOL...UN [message #206954 is a reply to message #206869]

Fri, 07 July 2006 07:35

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Dover wrote on Thu, 06 July 2006 20:54

Swearing not being allowed IS a bad thing, because it treats "swear" words differantly than all the other words in the English language, when really they aren't. There's nothing special about the letter arrangement in the word "Shit" that makes it any more threatening than "Hits" or "This" or "Sith". A word is a word is a word, and the only reason people react the way they do to swearing is because they're told to. Newborns and people who don't speak a word of English won't react that way, because there's nothing special or different about them at all.

Making a rule banning cussing makes no more sense to me than a rule that says

Crimson wrote on Wed, 12 April 2006 18:48

...that no nicknames with the letter "w" can play that day

because there's absolutely no rationality behind it, other than "I don't like it" or "We have kids here who aren't supposed to be playing anyway". Fucking morons...

As far as the younger audience excuse goes, it's absolute neglegence on behalf of the parents to allow a ten year old to play ANY kind of multiplayer game (Especially a shooter) and expect them not to pick up cussing. If you don't want your kids to have a foul mouth, don't let them play video games online, especially ones that are targeted for an audience much older than they are.

I'm angry now...

Unfortunately, the letter arrangement of words DOES make a difference. That's simply how the English language is. We have only so many letters that can be used, so different arrangements are bound to take on different meanings, and such words will be deemed socially acceptable or not.

Certain letter arrangements take on meanings that are not socially acceptable, and are deemed "foul". Simply because it is considered "foul" language, there are barriers in place to prevent the useage of them. Be it right or not, there are some "universal" swear words that are not deemed appropriate to use. The fact that they do not appear in the normal course of human speech also plays to that fact.

Stating that people react badly because they are told to is a moot point. That's the way things are with every form of human interaction. It would be akin to saying that the only reason sexual harassment is bad, is because we are led to believe it. After all, there is nothing special to simply another way of touching someone. Whether it's shaking hands, or grabbing something else, touching is touching, correct?

The problem with your comparison between swearing and the names with "w" is that one has nothing inately wrong about it, and one is deemed universally-socially unacceptable to use.

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		Re: LOL...UN By: agent_CDE on Thu, 06 July 2006 12:52
		Re: LOL...UN By: mrpirate on Wed, 05 July 2006 21:20
		Re: LOL...UN By: JohnDoe on Thu, 06 July 2006 12:57
		Re: LOL...UN By: Tiesto on Fri, 07 July 2006 08:28
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dogg on Fri, 07 July 2006 13:48
		Re: LOL...UN By: IronWarrior on Fri, 07 July 2006 16:58
		Re: LOL...UN By: warranto on Thu, 06 July 2006 14:34
		Re: LOL...UN By: Berkut on Thu, 06 July 2006 14:41
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Thu, 06 July 2006 19:54
		Re: LOL...UN By: Sniper_De7 on Thu, 06 July 2006 19:59
		Re: LOL...UN By: IronWarrior on Thu, 06 July 2006 20:23
		Re: LOL...UN By: warranto on Fri, 07 July 2006 07:35
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Tue, 11 July 2006 10:47
		Re: LOL...UN By: warranto on Tue, 11 July 2006 14:28
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		Re: LOL...UN By: Enforcer on Wed, 12 July 2006 02:28
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		Re: LOL...UN By: Dogg on Wed, 12 July 2006 05:13
		Re: LOL...UN By: Tiesto on Wed, 12 July 2006 07:27
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dogg on Wed, 12 July 2006 17:00
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Wed, 12 July 2006 20:14
		Re: LOL...UN By: mrpirate on Fri, 07 July 2006 07:48
		Re: LOL...UN By: cheesesoda on Fri, 07 July 2006 08:26
		Re: LOL...UN By: warranto on Fri, 07 July 2006 09:10
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		Re: LOL...UN By: cheesesoda on Fri, 07 July 2006 09:41
		Re: LOL...UN By: mision08 on Fri, 07 July 2006 11:20
		Re: LOL...UN By: JohnDoe on Fri, 07 July 2006 12:21
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		Re: LOL...UN By: JohnDoe on Fri, 07 July 2006 12:04
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		Re: LOL...UN By: JohnDoe on Sun, 09 July 2006 00:56
		Re: LOL...UN By: Jecht on Sun, 09 July 2006 03:26
		Re: LOL...UN By: DarkKnight on Sun, 09 July 2006 07:32
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dogg on Sun, 09 July 2006 07:58
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		Re: LOL...UN By: Jecht on Mon, 10 July 2006 10:04
		Re: LOL...UN By: PlastoJoe on Tue, 11 July 2006 12:55
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Tue, 11 July 2006 23:25
		Re: LOL...UN By: warranto on Wed, 12 July 2006 06:15
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Wed, 12 July 2006 20:22
		Re: LOL...UN By: warranto on Thu, 13 July 2006 05:42
		Re: LOL...UN By: Jecht on Thu, 13 July 2006 05:43
		Re: LOL...UN By: JohnDoe on Wed, 12 July 2006 07:51
		Re: LOL...UN By: JohnDoe on Thu, 13 July 2006 01:57
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Thu, 13 July 2006 08:06
		Re: LOL...UN By: cheesesoda on Fri, 14 July 2006 09:11
		Re: LOL...UN By: mrpirate on Thu, 13 July 2006 10:15
		Re: LOL...UN By: JohnDoe on Thu, 13 July 2006 12:43
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dogg on Thu, 13 July 2006 16:00
		Re: LOL...UN By: DarkKnight on Fri, 14 July 2006 23:10
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Sun, 16 July 2006 15:19
		Re: LOL...UN By: IronWarrior on Sun, 16 July 2006 17:12
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dogg on Mon, 17 July 2006 03:33
		Re: LOL...UN By: Dover on Mon, 17 July 2006 13:12

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