Post by The Buffy-verse on Mar 2, 2004 0:07:59 GMT -5
Has anyone noticed how silly censorship can cause your messages to appear? I was writing a PM, about someone eating cereal with a harmless s-p-o-o-n, and I previewed it and got "sthingy". Yes, because sthingy is such a dirty word. Is thingy really that popular of a dirty word these days?
It's like that Eudora email program with the chili peppers. Any time you say "his" or "her" plus a body part, you get an added chili pepper. Even if it's just "John bit his tongue" -- chili peppers away, folks. 'Cause he might have bitten someone else's tongue, which we all know would be WRONG. Or "Jill grabbed her leg in pain when she fell down the stairs" -- just in case it was John's leg she was grabbing.
I'm tempted to use Eudora and see just how many nasty, nasty chili peppers I can get. Or how many THINGYS I can have in one post. I finally resorted to A FRIGGIN EATING UTENSIL THAT IS NOT A FORK OR A KNIFE. Talk about euphemism. How quaint (which was a dirty word, once upon a time, so take that, silly computer censors! You are strange and offputting!).
Post by The Buffy-verse on Mar 2, 2004 21:33:52 GMT -5
"Queynte" used to mean not only strange but also thingy. Not "sthingy" mind you, just "thingy." One might see an analogue or descendent in the modern-day still "unspeakable" word, known to the censors as thingy, spelled with a c rather than a sthingy.
It takes a prominent role in the Wife of Bath's Tale, which, by the by, is not anti-feminist (not that it's PRO-feminist necessarily either).
All this dirty medieval knowledge . . . I should be proud, eh?
Post by TheSensitiveNewAge on Mar 2, 2004 22:50:53 GMT -5
Perhaps, but I applaud thee nonetheless!
-The Sensitive New Age Dictator Nicholas the Magnificant, the Most Benevolently Evil, the Great Tamer of the Ninja-Monkeys and He Who Thinks of Really Smashing Titles
Brother Sacristan & Archangel of HOGTOF
For my service strengthening ties between Canada and the 10000 Islands.