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Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:43 am

I wouldn't consider 'OMG' to be swearing o.O

Yeah - Typing Terror is pretty shocking with the words, or it was when it first came out. Problem is, people don't report the offensive words in TT, they just complain, so nothing gets done.

Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:34 am

Ms Manic wrote:For alot of people that stands for Oh My Gosh. And as far as I recall God is not a swear word.


Err, many people find using the lords name in vain to be highly offensive actually..

Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:05 am

Setekh wrote:
Ms Manic wrote:For alot of people that stands for Oh My Gosh. And as far as I recall God is not a swear word.


Err, many people find using the lords name in vain to be highly offensive actually..

I think what she meant is that it's not a swear word, which I consider to be a variety of 4-lettered words.

Granted, using God is offensive to some, but it's not in the same category as swear words IMO.

Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:43 pm

The censor is horrible, I made a Dutch lookup once, saying 'je kunt', what means 'you can', and they censored it because they thought I said 'je kont', what means 'your smurf'. :roll:

Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:50 am

theonlysaneone wrote:Also, I found 'damn' somewhere, but I forgot.


The Neopian Times?

Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:09 am

fishies wrote:The Neopian Times?


A quick Google search shows a bunch of places where that word can be found, and yes, the first link is to the Neopian Times

Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:20 am

I always figured they meant damn as in condemned, not the swearword... Hm.. confusing.

Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:08 am

Kitten Medli wrote:I always figured they meant damn as in condemned, not the swearword... Hm.. confusing.


Some dictionaries don't consider 'damn' as a profanity anyway....

Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:33 am

When I read OMG I actually read it Oh Em Gee, which is one of the best words :D

Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:33 am

Anoohilator wrote:When I read OMG I actually read it Oh Em Gee, which is one of the best words :D


Haha.
I read OMG as Oh My Gaaaa for some reason. o.0 Sometimes I read it as Oh Em Gee too. But I always see it as Oh My Gosh, not Oh My God.

Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:55 am

The design/organization of the neopets site is an utter mess -- everything is spaghetti noodled together. It would be a miracle if they could pull off censorship/terminology standards.

Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:05 pm

Considering how popular the site is and how many features and such Neopets has, it's a miracle everything runs as smoothly as it does

Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:56 pm

Mriiekj wrote:The censor is horrible, I made a Dutch lookup once, saying 'je kunt', what means 'you can', and they censored it because they thought I said 'je kont', what means 'your smurf'. :roll:


There may be another reason that was censored...

I think if a word can appear in a family suitable movie (which as far as I know "god" can do) then it should be OK. Someone finding a particular usage of a word offensive (as in OMG) shouldn't be a reason to ban it from common use when the majority aren't bothered.

Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:13 am

sily_sicily wrote:
Anoohilator wrote:When I read OMG I actually read it Oh Em Gee, which is one of the best words :D


Haha.
I read OMG as Oh My Gaaaa for some reason. o.0 Sometimes I read it as Oh Em Gee too. But I always see it as Oh My Gosh, not Oh My God.


I s'pose I'm the only one who reads it as ohmguh, the way you'd say it if it weren't an acronym.

Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:15 am

Moongewl wrote:
sily_sicily wrote:
Anoohilator wrote:When I read OMG I actually read it Oh Em Gee, which is one of the best words :D

Haha.
I read OMG as Oh My Gaaaa for some reason. o.0 Sometimes I read it as Oh Em Gee too. But I always see it as Oh My Gosh, not Oh My God.

I s'pose I'm the only one who reads it as ohmguh, the way you'd say it if it weren't an acronym.


Do you mean "omguh"? If you do, then occasionally you're not the only one. ;)
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