| User | danativ | | Topic | Language | | Message | Is any able to tell me the site policy for use of coarse language? I have a poem that I’d like to post but it contains coarse language. The poem is redundant without the language and it would be futile posting it without.
Thanks for any responses ~ danativ |
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| User | alteredlife | 2007-01-21 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vocabulary
http://www.reference.com/search?q=swear%20words
As you can see, swear words comes under "vocabulary", meaning, it has its place and shouldn’t be disregarded (in my opinion), but hey, we can agree to disagree, right?
Words are words, and it’s up to you personally how offended you are by "taboo" words.
My two cents. |
| User | alteredlife | 2007-01-21 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Language in its entirety is beautiful and filled with nuances. I say "fuck yeah". |
| User | Chell | 2007-01-21 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | ***CAUTION: THIS POST CONTAINS FOUL LANGUAGE***
I’m sure my piece, "Nice Shoes Want to Fuck" would have 556 views and 51 comments (the second most commented on piece on E.S.) had it been called "Nice footwear, would you like to engage in Fornication"...
I get a chuckle out of the idea of "bad words". Words aren’t bad- they are ways to express yourself. "Bad’ and ’Good’ are concepts we’ve attached to them.
Take for instance that bastard can actually be a term of endearment in Australia. (ex: Your best friend wins the lottery and you call him a lucky bastard.) Cunt in the UK doesn’t carry nearly the negative connotations that it does in the States.
Let me pose this question- if every time people had casual sex they referred to it as "eating" would ’eat’ and ’eating’ be considered using coarse language? |
| User | mae | 2007-01-19 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | to disregard one for the other only closes your mind.
I completely disagree with that. You can get your point across without using foul language - it’s called vocabulary. You can write in such a way that the offensive (and I use that term purposely) language is not missed by the reader. To choose to avoid the common is not close-minded. mae |
| User | alteredlife | 2007-01-14 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Sometimes coarse language has a place in any form of literature and shouldn’t be seen as offensive at all, but rather, as another form of emotional intensity... when it fits. Each to their own, but poetry can be downright filthy or sublime--to disregard one for the other only closes your mind. |
| User | danativ | 2006-12-20 | | | Subject | Language | | Message | Thank you mae for you response. I have since, in viewing pieces from other writers, realised the description prologue is the place where most content warnings are placed now.
By redundant I was referring to my poem being laboured and perhaps unintelligible. |
| User | mae | 2006-12-20 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | It is considered a necessary courtesy to inform readers in the description of strong language.
And redundant means unnecessarily repetitious or having a surplus and excess beyond what would normally be expected. How would leaving out coarse language result in that?
mae |
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