You're mixing forums Nigel!Moonraker wrote:Thank you *** and Rob!
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'Tis loving and giving that makes life worth living.
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Considering I had 'damn' altered on one of my posts not too long ago, I thought the same thing!!Moonraker wrote:
Sunskriti - mind your language!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Arrgghh! Sorry - I have altered it now Daisy to preserve anonymity!Daisy wrote: You're mixing forums Nigel!
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.! )
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 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.! )
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.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
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"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
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So now it looks like Nigel was the one who was swearing.Anita Bensoussane wrote:I've just asterisked the quotation in Daisy's post!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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Haha!
Thanks Anita.
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).
Thanks Anita.
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).
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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!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.
Gosh yes - absolutely smashing idea!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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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.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
Poor Sunskriti, we're not having a go at you. Honestly!
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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.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
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"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
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******, you know it ain't easy...
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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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!
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.
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.)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
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.
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Cheers, Sunskriti!
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
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"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
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Well done! It can be a minefield trying not to upset people with so many religious beliefs in existence!
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I think we should all 'speak' using Julian's vocabulary - Dick is a bit too racy!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!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.)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
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.
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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!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)