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Yes, I'm aware I can curse on the internet - it's not my first day here. I use the exact words I mean to use, and I'm more a fan of the precision F-strike than indiscriminately carpet-bombing the place with "fucks". Stop word-policing me (and others).
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Yeah, this went over about as well as expected. And the irony and hypocrisy of the free speech absolutists coming out of the woodwork to tell us all what we can and can't say is not lost on me.
I don't give two shats what you forking say. Live life you duckers.
Oh sure people can self censor and thats fine. It doesnt properly hide the word though. If you said out loud that someone is an "N-word" you have and the people listening have completed that word in their head and could still call you racist for using it, even though you didnt say the word your intentions to are a problem. The concept of using a censored version of a word only works to appease the person saying it.
If you want to remove the curse words just use different words entirely instead of censoring them.
Also, people who curse are more honest than thise that dont.
Fork you
Next you'll tell me to stop criticizing people's outfits and arguing about the borders of the Midwest. It's not gonna happen.
borders of the midwest
I think Aschaffenburg should go to Hesse. What Bavaria is even doing so far North West is beyond me.
holy forking shirt-balls! you're right!
I’ve always used frack , has a similar vibe to fuck
BSG, frak yeah!!
Wholly mother-forking shirt balls!
Language conveys meaning. The words have no other purpose. Say fudge, fork, or frak, you still conveyed fuck. So just say what you mean.
written language also conveys tone and embodies the personality of the person writing it.
are you not just arguing against freedom of expression right now?
Lol blood hell apprently the comments feel like everyone needs to conform to not saying f%@! Or fork or w/e and saying the whole thing uncensored.
Personally think its funny to self censor.
I think it can be funny when done right, I prefer euphemisms (the more creative the better), second best is a grawlix, and dead last at "I hate it" is just an asterisk or dash.
I too want to stop people placing arbitrary rules on my behaviour in public forums by imposing arbitrary rules on how to achieve my goals.
I write fuck 100x more then I say it... so that is cool with me if someone doesnt want to write it
I don't say it very often and it makes me very conscious of the fact that I am saying it when I do
People can obviously say whatever they want, but my opinion is that substituting curse words makes people sound juvenile and the intent is still the same as the original word. You are still making people do a curse conversion in their heads. So why even bother? Kind of like people who won’t say goddamnit, but they’ll say gawldamnit or something like that. Do you think you’re fucking tricking god? There are plenty of other words that can be used for emphasis.
OK but holy forking shirtballs was contextually hilarious and I will always respect a good place reference.
If someone wants to respond with fuck* thats up to them as well
To me fork makes way more sense, I feel like it conveys a totally different tone, and therefor has a different function in communicating
I guess a sensored f---k does too, but not anywhere near as distinct.
Forking shirtballs, people need to listen to you
I mean people could also stop word-policing themselves
If they go over to lemmy.ml, they'll have that all done for them automatically, because communism needs clean language to thrive, apparently.
Stop response-policing us
the only thing more annoying than someone self-censoring are the billion people telling them to stop self-censoring
like we get it, we don’t need 20000 replies saying the same thing!!!!!!!!
I don't care if someone wants to say fork, that's fine, and there aren't many people that have a problem with that, and if they do, they can't force you to say things differently anyway. At worst you get a post complaining
The real problem is the other way around; that major internet sites are word policing the crap out of everyone else to the point where you cannot even say words like "death". You have to say dumb shit like "unalive" and they do put real consequences to disobedience like being demonitized