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[Max White]

If I'm not sure I just go by the avatar. I mean gotta make a guess somehow, so the avatar is a good start. I'm also guessing fqllve is a girl?

I can call you all sorts of insults without meaning to offend you. That does not mean they should not offend you.

Maybe this is just a cultural thing, but if you insult somebody without meaning to offend them, that is often viewed as a sign of friendship over here. I don't know how it works where you are, but if Adam and Eve are bowling, and Adam get a strike, while Eve is having an off day, then Eve may shout out 'You suck at bowling!', despite the fact that Adam clearly does not, and they would both laugh at the joke.

[Criptfeind]

If I'm not sure I just go by the avatar. I mean gotta make a guess somehow, so the avatar is a good start. I'm also guessing fqllve is a girl?

Hah hah nope!

Edit: You can check most peoples profile.

Maybe this is just a cultural thing, but if you insult somebody without meaning to offend them, that is often viewed as a sign of friendship over here. I don't know how it works where you are, but if Adam and Eve are bowling, and Adam get a strike, while Eve is having an off day, then Eve may shout out 'You suck at bowling!', despite the fact that Adam clearly does not, and they would both laugh at the joke.

Huh? Even more blatant insults? That is a very interesting cultural thing.

[G-Flex]

Maybe this is just a cultural thing, but if you insult somebody without meaning to offend them, that is often viewed as a sign of friendship over here. I don't know how it works where you are, but if Adam and Eve are bowling, and Adam get a strike, while Eve is having an off day, then Eve may shout out 'You suck at bowling!', despite the fact that Adam clearly does not, and they would both laugh at the joke.

This is extremely context-sensitive. Playful insults like that only work when there's an air of understanding between the people involved; when there isn't, they don't function and are just plain insults.

[Criptfeind]

Yes, I suppose G-Flex has a point, can you do that to people you don't even know?

[Max White]

If I have to keep on repeating this, I'm going to go to the trouble of training a parrot to say it.

Maybe this is just a cultural thing, but if you insult somebody without meaning to offend them, that is often viewed as a sign of friendship over here. I don't know how it works where you are, but if Adam and Eve are bowling, and Adam get a strike, while Eve is having an off day, then Eve may shout out 'You suck at bowling!', despite the fact that Adam clearly does not, and they would both laugh at the joke.

This is extremely context-sensitive. Playful insults like that only work when there's an air of understanding between the people involved; when there isn't, they don't function and are just plain insults.

Thus why you should be careful about use of the word!

But it isn't just an instant hate speech.

[Criptfeind]

But... You admit it is insulting?

[fqllve]

If I'm not sure I just go by the avatar. I mean gotta make a guess somehow, so the avatar is a good start. I'm also guessing fqllve is a girl?

You can always check their forum profile, you know.

Not that I care. I've been mistaken for a woman in real life. Over the internet is nothing.

[Lysabild]

I'm gay, you can say anything you want is gay if you don't mean it insulting, I like the word fag better anyway. *shrugs*

Honestly, Language is all about contexts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71fuKrD2FvQ

Alright?

[Max White]

But... You admit it is insulting?

If Adam goes up to Eve and says 'Hey, I just got hit in the head by a falling papaya fruit, and it really hurt! Guess I can't help you to move your piano up a flight of stairs today!' and Eve replies 'Well that's gay!', Eve isn't trying to refer to homosexual people in any way, she is just showing displeasure. The word 'gay' in this context isn't really 'charged with ill will towards homosexuals', but despite this, their homosexual neighbour Matthew might still be offended from overhearing this statement, so in the name of diplomacy, it might be best if Eve holds her tongue.

[G-Flex]

Thus why you should be careful about use of the word!

But it isn't just an instant hate speech.

But there are cases where a word that is hurtful to a certain group is used outside that group even if it shouldn't be. Using "gay" as an insult, even if no gay people are around, is still pretty crass.

[Max White]

Oh yes, it can be used to slander homosexuals, no doubt, but that doesn't not mean to imply that just the use of the word in a negative way

constitutes hate speech

[Zrk2]

On a somewhat related note, the Colbert Report just delivered this PSA:

Kids, do not use the R word(retard), it is totally gay.

I think that is a relevant comparison and fits in at this point. Thoughts?

[Max White]

Well I lol'd.

[Lysabild]

On a somewhat related note, the Colbert Report just delivered this PSA:

Kids, do not use the R word(retard), it is totally gay.

I think that is a relevant comparison and fits in at this point. Thoughts?

He is right.

[Criptfeind]

Thoughts?

Snicker snicker.