Use of language

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Sorry Peter, read your comment after I posted the above.

[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

How do you all cope in the wider world — things like football and rugby matches, newspapers, magazines, books, TV, radio, friends, family and what about other internet forums? I just don't get the outrage at a row of asterisks.

Martin.

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

Bob,

We all know that modern children have little or no self-discipline. Which is not surprising given the lack of self-discipline exerted by some of their elders. Allow me to give an example:

I was approaching a single lane bridge near Newcastle and according to the signs on the bridge, I had right of way over people coming in the opposite direction. As I approached, a 4×4 appeared at the other end and drove straight on to the bridge, so rather naughtily I kept going until the road became too narrow for both vehicles to pass and then I stopped. He stopped. Windows were wound down and I pointed out that I had right of way. There then ensued a form of conversation in which the F-word and "old man" appeared. I had my wife and 23 year old son in my car: there was at least one women in the other car. I therefore backed off, both figuratively and literally, but I admit, I did play up to the "old man" bit by giving a lesson in how old people should not be allowed on the road! Saddened I was, but realistic enough to know that people like that are nothing more than bullies and that I wasn't going to win.

John,

Obviously you see nothing wrong in what you said. I'm not going to labour the point.

Regards,

Peter G. Shaw

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

An interesting debate. I have the Procon Latte add-in installed in Firefox on this (family) computer – it's a profanity detector, and I have had to whitelist this website to stop being warned off all the time!

I think it's important to draw a line somewhere between bowdlerisation and profanity.

It may seem a feeble suggestion but somehow using **** seems much less offensive than when a first letter is added -perhaps because I mentally insert the word I would have used in the circumstances.

Or we could do what the kid's comics do and make up our own swearwords. Back in the 70s I remember being told off for using Judge Dredd's favourite 21st century fricative!

As a general rule, perhaps the forum should have in bold, across the top the sign that used to hang in Sgt. Bilko's mess: "MIND YOUR LANGUAGE – UNMARRIED MEN PRESENT".

Neil

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 16/12/2013 21:43:25:

Or we could do what the kid's comics do and make up our own swearwords. Back in the 70s I remember being told off for using Judge Dredd's favourite 21st century fricative!

Neil

I used to have an uncle that everyone called flip flop because when he was working it was always flip this, flop that as he didn't swear.

However if he was still alive and on this forum all his posts would read f*** this, f*** that.

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

I too remember Joe Dreeds favourite expletive. .

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 16/12/2013 21:43:25:

An interesting debate. I have the Procon Latte add-in installed in Firefox on this (family) computer – it's a profanity detector, and I have had to whitelist this website to stop being warned off all the time!

this is a good enough reason to moderate our language

Also for the benifit of those for whom

{ early 21st Century }

( over 30 years old )

(southern England)

English isn't their first language, we sometimes need to use not our first choice of word but something more "international"….

[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

Posted by jason udall on 17/12/2013 00:20:00:

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 16/12/2013 21:43:25:

An interesting debate. I have the Procon Latte add-in installed in Firefox on this (family) computer – it's a profanity detector, and I have had to whitelist this website to stop being warned off all the time!

this is a good enough reason to moderate our language

Also for the benifit of those for whom

{ early 21st Century }

( over 30 years old )

(southern England)

English isn't their first language, we sometimes need to use not our first choice of word but something more "international"….

C wot U R sayin m8 kewl innit

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Indeed

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Gents,

The world is what it is, not how you would like it to be.

Dave

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