# Language filter? Is the word "\*\*\*\*" allowed? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 26, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845 "2012-09-26T02:01:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/61 "2012-09-28T00:02:50Z")
Aw, for fuck’s sake, can you guys take that elsewhere? Maybe the G_r_ff\* Board because I don’t usually go there. ETA: Self-censored “Giraffe” because I don’t want to start a board war. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/62 "2012-09-28T00:18:04Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Aw, for fuck’s sake, can you guys take that elsewhere? Maybe the G_r_ff\* Board because I don’t usually go there. > ETA: Self-censored “Giraffe” because I don’t want to start a board war. Woo, you said it! If I know those Giraffe, oh, excuse me, G_ra_fe posters, they would have all stampeded over after taking umbrage at such a cutting remark. Thanks to your extremely clever editing, we are now all safe from what would have been the board war to end all wars. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/63 "2012-09-28T00:20:15Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Aw, for fuck’s sake, can you guys take that elsewhere? Maybe the G_r_ff\* Board because I don’t usually go there. > ETA: Self-censored “Giraffe” because I don’t want to start a board war. What is wrong with them? Should I join that board? Did I join the wrong one? Did I accidentally align myself with the geeks and the GBoard is where all the cool kids go? I always do that:mad: ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/64 "2012-09-28T01:33:49Z")
Yes, I’m still here. Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies, the humorous responses, and the pithy comments. Loved them all. I have read the rules, stickies, etc., but I do not have a photographic memory. I will continue to refer to them as needed. Colibri-I promise not to "go all Tourette’s. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/65 "2012-09-28T01:40:56Z")
I’m not a troll. I was not thrown off Giraffe boards. I have never been a member there. You must be thinking of some other broad. I am not the Canadian. 😉 Saucy ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/66 "2012-09-28T02:11:18Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > But for some reason, Jesus doesn’t, which is the important thing. hahahahahaha, acehole ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/67 "2012-09-28T04:31:25Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > The language filter was brutal. > On a thread in their relationship forum someone started a poll about which video game they should play/rent for a first date. The options were all more recent games, i.e. Grand Theft Auto, WoW, etc. > Instead of picking from their choices, I suggested Asteroids and \*\*\*\*\*\*\*. > Anyone care to guess the name of the second game? On the other board, my response was… Asteroids and Frogger. Their language filter changed it to… Asteroids and \*\*\*\*\*\*\*. I had to look that one up. Apparently “frogger” is an old Dutch word meaning “one who eats frogs,” i.e. the French. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/68 "2012-09-30T15:05:12Z")
Saucy, tell us the other board you refer to! because I am also a refugee from a board with messed up moderation and other issues that make me want to swear. course it might not be the same one but if it was, I might know you. cyberly, I mean.😛 but I sure wish I’d thought up a good screen name myownself… ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/69 "2012-09-30T15:11:22Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > Saucy, tell us the other board you refer to! because I am also a refugee from a board with messed up moderation and other issues that make me want to swear. > > course it might not be the same one but if it was, I might know you. cyberly, I mean. Lest we start a board war, I suggest you PM each other. Board wars are not worth the effort and are not winnable. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/70 "2012-09-30T15:20:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Lest we start a board war well, I did PM her but just to be friendly. those folks aren’t coming over here - most of them are languishing on facebook and some started their own forum. it’s all good! ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/71 "2012-10-01T00:48:37Z")
Hey Jackie! Check your inbox. Cynthia ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/72 "2012-10-01T00:54:12Z")
That place had way too many prigs, house marms, and grannies from Bugtussle. In one thread about language, someone responded that they would like to see “vis–à–vis” brought back into usage. I responded, in my best Stewie voice no less,…“Ooooh yes, do bring that one back, I think I got a literary erection.” It was deleted. Man were they anal! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/73 "2012-10-02T08:15:41Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > You do realize that shite is a curse word in other parts of the word. Also if you’re going to type shite and mpotherfudger then you, me and everyone else in the world knows you mean shit and motherfucker so technically you are cussing. Same as using \*\*\*\*. We all know by the context if you mean shit, fuck, cunt and probably several others. You are cussing and you’re not fooling anyone. Yes, but it doesn’t cause the same reaction in the curse language cores of our brain. Cursing uses a different pathway of the brain. As someone who used to not curse and now does, I can tell you that all of those words have completely different feelings to them. I don’t see why people think they are actually equivalent. Now stuff like “f\*\*k” is equivalent. But not “fudge” or “flippin’” or “darn” or “crap” (instead of “shit”). ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845/74 "2012-10-02T14:58:39Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Yes, but it doesn’t cause the same reaction in the curse language cores of our brain. Cursing uses a different pathway of the brain. So does singing. :eek: Besides I’m trying to spread some fucking tranquility up in this bitch. I’m also trying to get everyone to fucking get along and fucking be friends and shit. paragraph 22 > [@](#): > > In some settings, the free flow of foul language may signal not hostility or social pathology, but harmony and tranquillity. > > “Studies show that if you’re with a group of close friends, the more relaxed you are, the more you swear,” Dr. Burridge said. "It’s a way of saying: ‘I’m so comfortable here I can let off steam. I can say whatever I like.’ " [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/science/20curs.html?pagewanted=all&\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/science/20curs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/language-filter-is-the-word-allowed/635845.md?page=3)