Typing swear words wrong outside of Boards.

JustShon

Anyone else ever find themselves doing this?

Like writing fcuk in a text to a friend, or sh1te or any of the various alternate spellings boardsies use to get around the censorship.

I've caught myself doing it a lot lately before remembering I can actually spell it correctly when it's a WhatsApp message to a mate.

stimpson

Why not just write fuck?

bear1

JustShon wrote: »

Anyone else ever find themselves doing this?

Like writing fcuk in a text to a friend, or sh1te or any of the various alternate spellings boardsies use to get around the censorship.

I've caught myself doing it a lot lately before remembering I can actually spell it correctly when it's a WhatsApp message to a mate.

No.

JustShon

stimpson wrote: »

Why not just write fuck?

I haven't a notion, I saw others spelling it fcuk and sh1te etc and assumed there was some kind of censoring feature?

bear1

JustShon wrote: »

I haven't a notion, I saw others spelling it fcuk and sh1te etc and assumed there was some kind of censoring feature?

**** is censored

fcuk is not

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JustShon wrote: »

I haven't a notion, I saw others spelling it fcuk and sh1te etc and assumed there was some kind of censoring feature?

No we're all only being polite. The only words it censors are **** and **** and *****************

stimpson

bear1 wrote: »

**** is censored

fcuk is not

You have that the wrong way around:

**** is censored

fuck is not

JustShon

I'm ****ing / fcuking confused about the **** / fcuk situation now.

One eyed Jack

The fadas on vowels, once the words are added to the word prediction dictionary, mean I'm not even conscious sometimes I may be using salty language. I wouldn't curse when writing a report or a thesis but in my informal writing, I'm known to drop a couple of f and s bombs.

I did try and curb it for a long time, but then I figured "fúck it, I have more important things to be thinking about than this shíte".

I don't buy the whole "added impact" argument btw, and I admire people who can articulate themselves without the salty language.

Keane2baMused

They know a way around the filter!

maudgonner

Stimpson is fond of using colourful language.

stimpson

maudgonner wrote: »

Stimpson is fond of using colourful language.

Shut the **** up!!!

maudgonner

Don't you mean 'Shut the fuck up!!!'?

JustShon

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I don't buy the whole "added impact" argument btw, and I admire people who can articulate themselves without the salty language.

No I don't buy it either. It has however been proven that blurting out a swear helps deal with the pain of suddenly being hurt, like bumping your head or whatever.

ScumLord

JustShon wrote: »

Like writing fcuk in a text to a friend, or sh1te or any of the various alternate spellings boardsies use to get around the censorship.

Shyte isn't censored.

biko

"You big bastard." Oh, Dreadful Language. "You big hairy arse." "You big Fecker." Fierce Stuff!
And of course the F-word father, the bad F-word. Worse than Feck. You know the one I mean.

Hazys

I never fcuking understood the cunty rule of censoring swear words because once you just switch one sh1tty letter around or get a little bit creative, the cnut of a sentence your are trying to write, still reads the fcuking same.

JustShon

Hazys wrote: »

I never fcuking understood the cunty rule of censoring swear words because once you just switch one sh1tty letter around or get a little bit creative, the cnut of a sentence your are trying to write, still reads the fcuking same.

I do sometimes read it as written in my head like "The fuhcucking cuhnut."

The_Valeyard

Ye Backsterds

jimgoose

JustShon wrote: »

No I don't buy it either. It has however been proven that blurting out a swear helps deal with the pain of suddenly being hurt, like bumping your head or whatever.

That's right. It's something vaguely like the "Kiai" used in Japanese martial arts. It's also useful for starting recalcitrant old bulldozers, as in this beautifully-crafted example from my late father: "Start tae fuck ye hoor's BASTARD!!" :cool:

JustShon

jimgoose wrote: »

That's right. It's something vaguely like the "Kiai" used in Japanese martial arts. It's also useful for starting recalcitrant old bulldozers, as in this beautifully-crafted example from my late father: "Start tae fuck ye hoor's BASTARD!!" :cool:

Anecdotally proven to work when trying to kill someone in an online video game too: "Would you ever just fcuking die for fcuk sake! ... Thank you!"

doolox

You can get creative by spelling the anglo saxon forced coitive as phuque or fuch or suchlike and sound continental but that would need plural of the aforesaid word as in "two continental phuques" or you could employ lenition in the vocative as in the Irish language phrase " do bhriseadh do chosa a bhitch!" or "maróidh me thú a bhastard!

It is interesting to note that the Russians have their own bad language call Matj from the phrase "job tvojamatj!" which translates as to have sexual relations with ones mother in a Samuel L. Jackson kind of way.

The germans have ARSCHLOCH for asshole and the french have Merde etc...somewhat scatological.

Youtube George Carlin for his hilarious take on the seven forbidden words in US cinema and TV in the sanitised 1950's and sixties.

On that subject I still recall the shock I got when reality shows like Hill St Blues hit the screens after a monotonous and hardly believable diet of sanitised shows where everything was perfect and nothing bad happened except in melodramas. No divorce, no poverty, no chaos etc. and only the white middle class professional working mores prevailed.