Thread:BluesDriver/@comment-35829463-20200201233614/@comment-84.177.50.224-20200202192430

I think its not that easy. I know a lot of English words I never would have used here - would allways say "OMG" with three letters here, which has four of them for me elsewhere :) But there isnt a clear line to what might be offensive - I know from talking to Bluesdriver that the heaviest Swearwords in Quebec are religious terms that elsewhere would not even be recognized to act as a swearword. I now know that even mild sexual methaphors are supposed to be not used here, which I didnt know before this discussion (could have hit me as good as Bluesdriver, poor luck that I didnt come up with anything like that yet). But there isnt allways a way to know what might be offensive - I am pretty sure that BDs question about what the problematic term was was not bullying Shanera, but a serious question, for he was right that as easy the religious metaphor could have been the point. And you cant get out everything which perhaps could in some dubious circumstances offend some persons, can you? And you cant make clear rules about what you can say and what not, without naming the words you dont want to be used, which clearly is not a good way of doing it.

At the end one question from me TRIGGER WARNING FOR POTENTIALLY OFFENSIV LANGUAGE ON: can you say, for example, BS? If so, only shortened this way, or also in the long form (as I understood it, that makes a difference, and eitherway it is milder swearing as it would be in German translation)? Or, on the religious side, shout out "Jesus Christ!"? "Jesus H. Christ" (as I understand it, no one knows what the H. stands for?)?

- Pest