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Moonraker wrote:Thank you *** and Rob! :D
You're mixing forums Nigel!
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Moonraker wrote:
Sunskriti - mind your language! :wink:
Considering I had 'damn' altered on one of my posts not too long ago, I thought the same thing!! :wink:
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Daisy wrote: You're mixing forums Nigel!
Arrgghh! Sorry - I have altered it now Daisy to preserve anonymity!

Edit: Of course I haven't really, as your quote still quotes the original!
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I've just asterisked the quotation in Daisy's post!

I could also remove the word from Sunskriti's post but then the posts following it wouldn't make sense. If Sunskriti could change it herself, at least then her post would show as "edited". As we've discussed before, it helps make the forums a pleasant place to be if we keep our language as Blytonian as possible (not that we have to pepper our posts liberally with "I say", "Rather!", "Blow!", etc.! :wink: )

By the way, I'm not getting at Sunskriti so I hope it doesn't come across that way. Words don't always have the same overtones in different countries anyway.
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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Anita Bensoussane wrote:I've just asterisked the quotation in Daisy's post!
So now it looks like Nigel was the one who was swearing. :mrgreen: :wink:
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Haha!

Thanks Anita. :D

I remember when The Beatles' record, The Ballad of John and Yoko, was banned in the USA for a line containing the same word (used blasphemously). :D
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Anita Bensoussane wrote:
By the way, I'm not getting at Sunskriti so I hope it doesn't come across that way. Words don't always have the same overtones in different countries anyway.
I agree - I shouldn't think it does have the same overtones. Really I was just being jokey. I don't mind what language people use, but I agree that sticking to Blytonian language is more fitting to the website!

Gosh yes - absolutely smashing idea! :lol:
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Anita wrote:By the way, I'm not getting at Sunskriti so I hope it doesn't come across that way. Words don't always have the same overtones in different countries anyway
Oh, I don't agree. The Ten Commandments have the same "overtones" globally for the world's Christians. It isn't just a word, to Christians the word denotes the Son of God.

Poor Sunskriti, we're not having a go at you. Honestly! :D
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I take your point but in some communities (probably in the UK too) it gets used quite casually in everyday conversation and people who have been exposed to that may not realise that it's offensive to others.
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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******, you know it ain't easy... :wink:
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Well, I hadn't seen this thread till just about now, and that's because Anita sent me the link in a PM, because I used it again! :oops:
Anita wrote:By the way, I'm not getting at Sunskriti so I hope it doesn't come across that way. Words don't always have the same overtones in different countries anyway
Course it doesn't come across that way, but yeah, we do say it rather casually around here, in fact that may also be because we're not Christians. (We being my family, not Indians in general.)
In any case, I'll edit it out from that post and the other, more recent one.
Oh dear, I keep getting in trouble for such things, but honestly it didn't strike me that it could be even remotely offensive, hmm... maybe I should check what else may count as blasphemy or be offensive. :oops: :shock:
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Cheers, Sunskriti!
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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Well done! It can be a minefield trying not to upset people with so many religious beliefs in existence! :D
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Darrell71 wrote:Well, I hadn't seen this thread till just about now, and that's because Anita sent me the link in a PM, because I used it again! :oops:
Anita wrote:By the way, I'm not getting at Sunskriti so I hope it doesn't come across that way. Words don't always have the same overtones in different countries anyway
Course it doesn't come across that way, but yeah, we do say it rather casually around here, in fact that may also be because we're not Christians. (We being my family, not Indians in general.)
In any case, I'll edit it out from that post and the other, more recent one.
Oh dear, I keep getting in trouble for such things, but honestly it didn't strike me that it could be even remotely offensive, hmm... maybe I should check what else may count as blasphemy or be offensive. :oops: :shock:
I think we should all 'speak' using Julian's vocabulary - Dick is a bit too racy!
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Just for the record, by the way, Sunskriti, I consider myself Christian and although I wouldn't use "Christ" as a swear word myself, I personally don't feel offended if others choose to. It's a pretty individual thing, I guess, what one considers acceptable or unacceptable.
Francis wrote:I think we should all 'speak' using Julian's vocabulary - Dick is a bit too racy!
:shock: :wink:
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