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Re: don't feed the trolls!
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:50:49 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote:
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> > I'm just trying to help. I know in the past I've gotten into trouble for
> > not
> > knowing whether things are too serious to joke about or not. I wouldn't
> > want new
> > members to get the impression that this community is anything but warm and
> > embracing by inadvertantly making the same mistakes I have made [1]. I
> > think
> > such a list would be a real asset to the community.
>
> And a complete list of the words that we are not allowed to say because
> there is someone somewhere who disapproves of the word. Many an innocent
> Aussie abroad on Lugnet has fallen foul of that one, speaking as we do in
> the vulgar vernacular!
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> Of course, the problem with compiling the list is that the words in the list
> cannot be written on Lugnet. Tricky problem! We'll have to be cunning
> linguists to solve that dilemna.
>
> How about saying them as "d***" that rhymes with "ham"? That's a bad one
> apparently (although I can't remember why).
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> And of course there is "d***" that rhymes with "barn". That's another bad
> one (because it's a euphemism for the one that rhymes with ham).
>
> Kerry
Given that the Australian Divorce Courts ruled that bloody isn't a swearword
back in the 40s I assume it's OK if we use that in .loc.au. Not sure about
outside... whose swear rules do we follow in .general?
Tim
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| (...) And a complete list of the words that we are not allowed to say because there is someone somewhere who disapproves of the word. Many an innocent Aussie abroad on Lugnet has fallen foul of that one, speaking as we do in the vulgar vernacular! (...) (18 years ago, 21-Nov-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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