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Old 4th September 2006, 05:55 PM
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About "creative swearing"

Does abberivations such as omfg, ffs and so on, belong to this?

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If you use any means to avoid the censor, a staff member will go and edit your post or pm you to edit it.
I guess it's okay as long as it doesn't go out of hand.

Thread that made me come to think about asking the question:
omfg, Gwen Stefani`s new album
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Old 4th September 2006, 06:50 PM
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I think an example of what they mean would be like having a space between each letter of a swear word. Intentionally misspelling a swear word would probably count as "creative swearing," too. I don't think "omfg" would count as that because it can also stand for "Oh my freaking gosh." Some abbreviations like that can be ambiguous.
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Old 4th September 2006, 06:53 PM
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True, but it still made me wonder, because ffs can't be taken as very much else than something offensive, and I want to know about it... I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to use it .
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Old 4th September 2006, 06:59 PM
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for freak's sake! sure it can!

As acronyms aren't as blatent as other creative swears, I guess they're considered ok. I don't recall ever editing an 'omfg' etc before. They're not as POLITE as one could phrase their post... but I guess it's not really crossing the line.
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Old 4th September 2006, 08:04 PM
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I don't see anything really wrong about abbreviations. Now, as qwerty pointed out, if you intentionally misspell a curse word, then that's a bit more..obvious.
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Old 4th September 2006, 08:07 PM
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Thank you, I don't intend of using them, but I wanted to know what the staffs view on this was. Because in my eyes writing, say, ffs, really is a way of swearing, because I don't read ffs when I see ffs, I read for **** sake. Altough it's not as bad as actually writing **** in some other creative way.

I don't have a problem with it, I just wanted to know .
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Old 5th September 2006, 04:08 PM
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hey, we have a "wtf" () smiley here, so i doubt anyone has a problem with the abbreviations.
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Old 5th September 2006, 04:54 PM
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Yeah, I don't think so either, especially as we also have this one:



Maybe it doesn't do what I think it looks like it's doing, but anyway .
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^Hehe it's not, it's the 'index finger moved in a rotation around the side of the head' sign. It means '.....coo coo!!"
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Old 5th September 2006, 10:35 PM
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hey, we have a "wtf" () smiley here, so i doubt anyone has a problem with the abbreviations.
I was just about to mention that one; that's a prime example of how abbreviations probably isn't that big of a deal here. o_o
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