A couple of us posted in "No Shows."
http://tinyurl.com/3xa37fIn post 2114, the following was censored:
"I realize this is all a PITA (pain in the [censored]), but it's the only way we can make sure it gets to all the necessary sections."
Here was my post, #2115:
I wouldn't worry about sensoring the word "[censored]" as it has definitely been used here before. <G>
I guess this was deemed far too egregious for the userboard, as it was quickly changed to the following:
"I wouldn't worry about sensoring the word "[censored]" as it has definitely been used here before. <G>"
I simply find it hard to believe that using that word is so offensive that it must be censored. If I am wrong, and I offended anyone, I sincerely apologize.
My guess is there is a bot here which checks each post due to how quickly it was changed. I decided to do a little Googling and read one of the greatest comedy routines ever from a man who Comedy Central called the second funniest standup comedian of all time, George Carlin. Of course, the irony is Richard Pryor was chosen number one. Now, if anyone should be censored....
George Carlin, of course, was the author of the seven words you never hear on television. An excerpt is below.
"....I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them. There are some people that are not into all the words. There are some that would have you not use certain words. There are 400,000 words in the English language and there are 7 of them you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you 7 Bad Words. That's what they told us they were, remember?...."
http://tinyurl.com/fr28j for the full bit.
Just so this post won't be a total waste, I ran across this blog while searching for George Carlin's work. It was rather serendipitous. I am not sure if I completely agree, but it would be interesting hearing from the group. It was written by Gary Schwitzer and published over seven years ago at
www.mayohealth.org before it changed to a
www.mayoclinic.com.Over a 25-year career in medical journalism and health care communications, I have developed my own list of taboo terms - all of which appear in print and on the public airwaves too frequently. I offer my own list of the seven words you shouldn't use in medical news and health care communications. . I urge colleagues - both health care providers and professional communicators - to abandon their use for the sake of health consumers everywhere. I urge consumers of all health care information to be wary of these words because they mean different things to different audiences.
Cure
Miracle
Breakthrough
Promising
Dramatic
Hope
Victim
Entire blog at
http://tinyurl.com/2b6667 Maybe we could have a list of words that are inappropriate or a list that are. Maybe we could have a EULA which stands for Everyone Use Language Appropriately.
