Clarification on swearing

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Re: Clarification on swearing

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Audax67 wrote:Telling someone to elbow off was a mortal insult. I can't imagine it getting much censure here, though.


Probably because most people think it's just humerus.
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Re: Clarification on swearing

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Bez wrote:
Audax67 wrote:Telling someone to elbow off was a mortal insult. I can't imagine it getting much censure here, though.


Probably because most people think it's just humerus.


Ha! Socket to 'em! :lol:
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Re: Clarification on swearing

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Vorpal wrote:
Bez wrote:
Audax67 wrote:Telling someone to elbow off was a mortal insult. I can't imagine it getting much censure here, though.


Probably because most people think it's just humerus.


Ha! Socket to 'em! :lol:


Good to see several people coming to a joint agreement
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Re: Clarification on swearing

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pwa wrote:It would be interesting if we could look at how this develops on this Forum over the years. In some ways it is already behind general society in that language and jokes that would go unremarked on a light hearted TV programme such as Taskmaster would be censored here.

There seems to be a recent trend of moderators replacing even very mild swearing with things like "FFE'd" which in at least one case has been put in place of where I'd written "effed". Having it all in capitals is more attention-grabbing and makes it look like I'd used a worse word than I did. Why did it matter in which order the letters E, F and F appeared? Have the mods got this one a bit wrong?
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Re: Clarification on swearing

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The subsequent linguistic digression has been split off into the fun & Games section.
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