Language in Story Hours?

[barsoomcore]

Originally Posted by Joshua Dyal

You'd have to change the order of your two adjectives to get alliteration.

Yeah, but then it sounds a little too much like Robin confronting Pamela Lee Anderson.

"Holy Big Boobies, Batman!"

Not at ALL the effect I was going for.

[Hobo]

Every story hour could use a little more Robin confronting Pamela Lee. In fact, I'm off to make a note of that right now for my own story hour...

[Gez]

Originally Posted by Cyberzombie

Actually, that would be breaking one of the cardinal rules of language here: no cutesy workarounds.

¡ Damn, 'cause there's a character that correspond to the upside-down bang that the Spanish use, and it looks just like a i !

[RangerWickett]

Actually, this is something I've had as a little pet peeve for a while. I know this site is intended to be polite and decent, but if we're able to discuss mutilating bodies for the creation of undead from the BoVD, or talk about how unrealistic the orgasm rules are in the BoEF, why is it offensive when I say:

"Did you hear that?" Said the private dick, cocking his head to the side.

?

Would it be possible, somehow, to implement an option that would remove the profanity filter, if the person reading the thread wanted to? For instance, I'm not at all offended by 'naughty words'; my ex-girlfriend regularly calls me things that are quite allowable by the filter, but which would be far more offensive. If a storyhour writer had a vulgar character, and he put a notice in the title of his thread like "(adult language)," I would like to be able to read it as the writer intended. For me, I'd have the "allow profanity" option enabled, and I'd be able to see the cussing. For Grandma Noah, however, she'd just see smileys.

Even if the coding to make such a thing work isn't feasible (and I'd imagine it isn't), could there at least be an option for a poster to disable the profanity filter, with the stipulation that you'd have to include a notice in the title of your thread, or else you'd be punished?

In fact, you wouldn't even have to change the board's filter. There are several ways to work around the filter, but most people don't because we're not supposed to. I'm just asking for a bit of leniency, for the sake of us who watch R-rated movies, and who'd like to be able to write about ornithologists.

If nothing else, though, I'm now gonna go read the storyhour to see what Barsoomcore has to say about .

[RangerWickett]

Hmm. Apparently it's not offensive for me to say that quoted phrase. I could've sworn, though, that I tried to post once and got '' filtered out. Oh well. My request still stands, humbly.

[MerakSpielman]

the problem is that you can't just remove the profanity filter for some people - the text you posted has literally been changed. Were you to go to edit it, YOU wouldn't even be able to see what you originally typed. Just a bunck of colons and close parantheses.

[RangerWickett]

I understand that. Which is why I suggest there be an option, perhaps even something requiring moderator approval or a community supporter status, to turn off the filter as you place your post. Doing so would make the whole thread 'restricted,' so that when you click on a link, you get to a page that asks you to verify that you're alright with reading profanity.

[RangerWickett]

By the way, Merak, some of the links in your sig are to the enworld.cyberstreet.com address, which messes up people's log-ins.

[Gez]

I'd like a way to disable the filter, too.

For example, I play in a PbP in French on these forums. It's DMed by Guillaume, if you want to find it. The story is the "Shackled City" thingy from Dungeon Magazine. As you may know (if you don't, that won't spoil anything), there's a problem with children kidnapped from an orphanage.

So, of course, with children, people will speak about "little ones". Which is said petits in French. Without it being a naughty word.

I had the same problem, but in English, on the Wizards board. It was impossibe to ****yze monster strategies with a ****atrice. Since then, the filter has been fine-tuned, and you can talk about analysis and cockatrixes, but that was just an example of problems with profanity filters.

[barsoomcore]

You ask a simple question, and look at the discussion that flowers...

The filter here caught me by surprise when I tried to describe people and things from the nation of Kish on Barsoom. The standard adjectival form of "Kish" adds "ite" to the end of the name, but that produces a naughty word surrounded by "Ki" and "e" so I ended up with a little girl vampire who was described as "Kie".

So in my Story Hour the adjectival form for "Kish" is now "Kishak". Which is a perfectly cool word. But it was kind of a surprise.

Anyway, I'd welcome any feedback on the naughty bit in Stewardesses. Did it work? Would the initially-desired term have been better?

[Piratecat]

I haven't checked Stewardesses yet. In the mean time, though, if you make a list of words like Kishi*e and peti*s we should be able to exclude those from the filter.

[barsoomcore]

Oh, thanks, but 30-some-odd posts later I'm used to "Kishak". No problem. It was just funny at the time -- took me a while to figure out what the heck was happening.

Thanks, though. Service with a, uh, smile. That's what keeps me coming back here....

Well, that, and the hope that I'll be able to Hong-beat properly someday. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.