Erebus
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Funnily enough, dogs are similar. A dog is a male dog. A ***** is a female dog.
Sometimes RF's profanity filter forgets that certain words aren't always swear words.
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is saying a dog is "man's best friend" offensive
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Funnily enough, dogs are similar. A dog is a male dog. A ***** is a female dog.
Sometimes RF's profanity filter forgets that certain words aren't always swear words.
exchemist
Veteran Member
Yeah I know. For a while, people in Scunthorpe couldn't use AOL services, because the profanity filters deleted their addresses. It seems this phenomenon of innocent words being filtered because some ponytail in California thinks they might be rude is actually known as the "Scunthorpe problem" : Scunthorpe problem - Wikipedia
P.S. This post is also a test of the RF filter. I'm pleased to see it has not bleeped it out.
I think it’s silly to be offended by such trite sayings.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
My cat treats me like a peasant.Hard to intimidate cat owners. Their pets are far better being disapproving judges than we are.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Yeah but it is a pretty grim place.
Nimos
Well-Known Member
Man can refer to all of humanity as a whole as well, like Mankind, doesn't only refer to men
exchemist
Veteran Member
As the old saying goes, if Typhoo put the T in Britain, who put the **** in Scunthorpe.Yeah but it is a pretty grim place.
But yes, part of Britain's rust belt, certainly.
Man can refer to all of humanity as a whole as well, like Mankind, doesn't only refer to men
I always interpret "man" as referring only to human males. Because it does when we have non-sexist, non-patriarchal methods of referring to human persons... and there's been significant shifts in language use in the modern era to reject such dated terms (with good reason - rather like why anthropologists stopped calling certain peoples "savages" all the time).
The equivocation here has already been noted by others. It occurs when a word has two or more distinct meaning that are used interchangeably (I call that two words, the dictionary calls them homonyms, but that's a fine point). The example I like to use when discussing this topic, which usually comes up when somebody conflates two different meanings of the word faith, uses bank (a place to keep money) and bank (the shore of a river). An equivocation fallacy might be, banks are a safe place to keep money, rivers have banks, therefore rivers are a safe place to keep money.
Neil forgot that article, and it makes a difference, although it is one nobody notices: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Without it, the statement essential says that that was both one small step and one giant leap for mankind, which is obviously not what he meant.
I knew somebody who went to Beaver College. She couldn't search her college on campus because of those filters.
Its so inaccurate. One doesn't need to be a spinster to be a crazy cat lady...
Its true. I'm pretty patient for a while, but I'm not much fun to cross.
My cat treats me like a peasant.
I'm happy to hear your cat is so charitable towards you!
Definition of man | Dictionary.com
2 a member of the species Homo sapiens or all the members of this species collectively, without regard to sex...
3 the human individual as representing the species, without reference to sex; the human race...
2 a member of the species Homo sapiens or all the members of this species collectively, without regard to sex...
3 the human individual as representing the species, without reference to sex; the human race...
Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
I thought this funny video would fit in well here in this thread...
As far as the question goes, we as a society are way too politically correct.
As far as the question goes, we as a society are way too politically correct.
Nimos
Well-Known Member
Fair enough as long as you are aware that it can refer to both
Here is the definition
1. an adult male human being.
"a tall man with a beard"
2. a human being of either sex; a person.
"goodwill to all men"
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