meh isn't as bad as at this other forum I used to go to... everyone always used to write teh instead of the... like "thats teh bomb" or "thats teh suck". they did it on purpose, those sickos!
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iMeowbot said:
Yeah, comer on, pleeeease?
Oh, and great modification to your avatar - I love it.
wrc fan said:
Yeah I think before you ban people for using words like meh, you should ban people from constantly misspelling words or using bad grammar. And that's not going to happen either...
wrc fan said:
And it is better then the wannabe "trendy" kids using all kinds of acronyms in car forums.
eh?
As a Canadian I am deeply offended that you would want to take away part of my heritage.
Taking away eh would be like taking away hockey. I think one lockout is enough.
As a Canadian I am deeply offended that you would want to take away part of my heritage.
Taking away eh would be like taking away hockey. I think one lockout is enough.
It's not accentless from a Canadian. Canadian "eh's" are different. I do agree with you that "eh" does seem to match up well with indifference. "Meh" always seemed a little more jaded to me.sethypoo said:
To the OP, first you tell the site admins/mods which phrases should be filtered and then you grant them permission to lock a thread you started. What a piece of work.
Meh... what do I know?
feakbeak said:To the OP, first you tell the site admins/mods which phrases should be filtered and then you grant them permission to lock a thread you started. What a piece of work.
Meh... what do I know?
First, where do you infer "telling" the mods anything from my post? A "proposed addition" is a suggestion; it is far from an imperative.
Second, the "granting" of permission was and is a tongue in cheek flag to the moderators that this thread should be wastelanded before it results in further insult to the ridiculous level of discourse here. Subtlety can be a virtue.
HTH.
Banning forms of expression is kinda fascist in my opinion.
Do you have a list of expressions that you think are acceptable?
I wouldn't want to offend or be offended by anyone who chooses to express themselves as they are! Goodness no, there may be one person who is offended.
My apologies for a very sarcastic post. Maybe not. In an open forum, there is going to be diversity. If there has to be a filter at all, I think the one that exists is sufficient. Judge others as you will, but respect their right to express themselves, please?
No, it's not an entirely open forum. Generally though, I find the rules are aimed at creating a fairly diverse forum. I could be wrong, and often am.
Do you have a list of expressions that you think are acceptable?
I wouldn't want to offend or be offended by anyone who chooses to express themselves as they are! Goodness no, there may be one person who is offended.
My apologies for a very sarcastic post. Maybe not. In an open forum, there is going to be diversity. If there has to be a filter at all, I think the one that exists is sufficient. Judge others as you will, but respect their right to express themselves, please?
No, it's not an entirely open forum. Generally though, I find the rules are aimed at creating a fairly diverse forum. I could be wrong, and often am.
ham_man said:Canadian, eh?
At least "meh" and "eh" are better than 1337 5p3/-\k...
I don't even know what that means.
~Shard~ said:I don't even know what that means.
i dont know either, but i think it means we are old
It means "leet speak". I'm not sure how it got the name of leet, you can check Wikipedia for that info. The simple idea is that you replace some letters with number and symbols so that still vaguely resemble the intended alpha characters. For example...
M4( Rµm0r$ r0(k$
There are different levels of "leetness" that vary from easy to read all the way up to WTF! It only really seems popular with gamers and script kiddies. I never really understood it... but I once implemented a translator for it on a message board so I am probably worse than most people who use it.
M4( Rµm0r$ r0(k$
There are different levels of "leetness" that vary from easy to read all the way up to WTF! It only really seems popular with gamers and script kiddies. I never really understood it... but I once implemented a translator for it on a message board so I am probably worse than most people who use it.
PlaceofDis said:
I don't think I want to be able to understand that gibberish, so I'm fine with checking myself into the nearest old folks home then - I'll reserve a Lazy Boy recliner right next to me for you, PlaceofDis!
I imagine the canadian 'eh' you speak of at the end of a sentence is similar to that at the end of sentences in Jersey. We both have heavy French influences in our histories. If so it should really be 'ais' not 'eh'...ais.Raid said:My fellow Canadians may also object to the banning of "eh", as it is part of our cultural heritage.
One word posts excluded, offer void in the sometimes lame attempt of non-Canadians to sound like us... What hozers eh?
EDIT: That said I try not to be a spelling or grammer Nazi cause language has been, is and will continue to be fluid, any 'rules' should be just guidelines..ais.
It does, it's all originally h4x0r (hackerwrc fan said:
) bollocks. Now though any 12 year old who thinks they're in74rw3b hard boys (internet ) talks like it.
edesignuk said:Now though any 12 year old who thinks they're in74rw3b hard boys (internet
And I assume then that they don't realize how foolish they sound?
Jon'sLightBulbs said:
Actually, "Ban the use of 'meh' and 'eh' through the profanity filter" is an imperative statement and is quite rightly inferred as telling someone to do something. The phrase "proposed addition" didn't surface until your 3rd post in the thread.
Jon'sLightBulbs said:
Insulting your fellow posters rarely gets you into their good graces, and tongue in cheek statements rarely convey the meaning you've intended without additional indicators, such as smilies.
HTH
Thanks for adding a Mod's voice of reason on the matter Rower_CPU, it helps to substantiate what the others have been saying here.
~Shard~ said:So someone is "elite" if they know how to speak gibberish?
No.
They think they are "elite". There's a subtle difference there.
dubbz said:No.
They think they are "elite". There's a subtle difference there.
As yes, a very important difference.
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