Conquer Club

Why do we censor certain words on fora such as these?

f*ck

Anyone reading that knows what it means immediately, and a derogatory comment isn't lessened by that asterisk. In fact, trying to cover up a word like that just draws more attention to it.

That is all.

I've oft wondered the same thing. It's kinda the same as blurring out nipples or something on tv... we all know that there are nipples under the blur or black bar.

Stupid shit.

-TG

I think you guys are onto something here. Lets write an angry letter to somebody to complain about it. We'll fill the letter with cursewords. It'll be epic.

Aradhus wrote:I think you guys are onto something here. Lets write an angry letter to somebody to complain about it. We'll fill the letter with cursewords. It'll be epic.

You mean, "F*ckin epic!"

Fuck.

That is all.

Why do you think South Park is so funny. The bleeped out words make it aw*some

ManB you never did the picture

Its sort of manners.

If you were not allowed to use any variation of the word, first it would cut out a fair number of utterly unrelated words. Second, it would just move people to find some other buttons to push. This is a "polite compromise". Folks can pretend the word is unknown if they wish and others can feel that they are sort of pushing things by using them.

Nola_Lifer wrote:Why do you think South Park is so funny. The bleeped out words make it aw*some

Yeah, I keep thinking of that Saturday NIght LIve skit.. "you % # ^% B*tch". ( I think it was supposed to be a political debate??)
It was incredibly funny precisely because we all knew that deep down, behind all the "polite words" that was pretty much what folks were thinking. In a few years, it won't be funny, because, well.. those things will just be said outright.

But will we really have gained anything? If anything, the power of those words will just be diminished. Our language will be shortened, not enriched.

There is something much more entertaining about hearing invectives like "you son of a mongoose and a chimpanzee wearing a frilly apron" or whatever (OK, not fantastic at coming up with the stuff.. but you get the point_). "F*ck you" is just BORING

nietzsche wrote:ManB you never did the picture

What picture was I supposed to do?

PLAYER57832 wrote:Its sort of manners.

If you were not allowed to use any variation of the word, first it would cut out a fair number of utterly unrelated words. Second, it would just move people to find some other buttons to push. This is a "polite compromise". Folks can pretend the word is unknown if they wish and others can feel that they are sort of pushing things by using them.

Nola_Lifer wrote:Why do you think South Park is so funny. The bleeped out words make it aw*some

Yeah, I keep thinking of that Saturday NIght LIve skit.. "you % # ^% B*tch". ( I think it was supposed to be a political debate??)
It was incredibly funny precisely because we all knew that deep down, behind all the "polite words" that was pretty much what folks were thinking. In a few years, it won't be funny, because, well.. those things will just be said outright.

But will we really have gained anything? If anything, the power of those words will just be diminished. Our language will be shortened, not enriched.

There is something much more entertaining about hearing invectives like "you son of a mongoose and a chimpanzee wearing a frilly apron" or whatever (OK, not fantastic at coming up with the stuff.. but you get the point_). "F*ck you" is just BORING

I'm sorry but this sounds like you're just being apologetic.

I was talking to someone today about how the radio played Clint Eastwood (you know, the awesome Gorillaz song) but how the glaring holes in the song from where the curse words are took away from the song.

Like when the television censors someone giving the camera a middle finger. Why in god's name do that do that? What percent of people DONT know what's behind the blur? It's just a middle finger...

Same thing with television, radio, this website censoring "f*ck" and other shit (see what I did there?). It's just annoying.

Because middle fingers and curse words will topple this great society we have built durr.

Also: Sweet necro.

FÜCK this shit.

Meh, swearing as a habit is a sign of stupidity. Swearing should be used emphasise a point, either through strong emotional attachment to the point, or through creative humour.

People who just swear a lot are lazy.

Symmetry wrote:Meh, swearing as a habit is a sign of stupidity. Swearing should be used emphasise a point, either through strong emotional attachment to the point, or through creative humour.

People who just swear a lot are lazy.

This is something I try to get through to a few of my students who have developed this habit. They claim that they do it because it makes an impact, but they don't seem to understand that when they do it all the time, there is no impact being made by it.

I find Australians (esp in corp society) can fit in huge amounts of f and c's into normal sentences. Its like a national pasttime I think.

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Woodruff wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Meh, swearing as a habit is a sign of stupidity. Swearing should be used emphasise a point, either through strong emotional attachment to the point, or through creative humour.

People who just swear a lot are lazy.

This is something I try to get through to a few of my students who have developed this habit. They claim that they do it because it makes an impact, but they don't seem to understand that when they do it all the time, there is no impact being made by it.

Try giving them an essay where you replace periods with exclamation points as punctuation! If they don't think it looks stupid, there's little hope for them! It's worked for me in the past! At least as a good visual! But, then again!!!

I can't see anyone actually caring but they claimed it was because of the site being international and some uninforced obscenity law.

Symmetry wrote:

Woodruff wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Meh, swearing as a habit is a sign of stupidity. Swearing should be used emphasise a point, either through strong emotional attachment to the point, or through creative humour.

People who just swear a lot are lazy.

This is something I try to get through to a few of my students who have developed this habit. They claim that they do it because it makes an impact, but they don't seem to understand that when they do it all the time, there is no impact being made by it.

Try giving them an essay where you replace periods with exclamation points as punctuation! If they don't think it looks stupid, there's little hope for them! It's worked for me in the past! At least as a good visual! But, then again!!!

Huh...that's an interesting idea. Thanks!