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I just discovered that I am forbidden from using the word " o x y m o r o n"! What is my punishment? I just evaded your censorship. I am ready -- how many weeks will you suspend me for?

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Well thats a fine mess, or maybe a new classic or maybe just clearly ambigous :D

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Hehe, I wonder if "n i g g a r d l y" is also off-limits now...

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Old members having fun?

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Your punishment is you writing an N900 app and getting it published on OVİ Store ;)

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Your punishment should be eating an entire bowl of udon noodles without making one slurping noise.

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too much time;)

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Angelic Layer?

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Let's see... A travelling salesman goes to S****horpe, Penistone, Lightwater, Clitheroe, and Middlesex.

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Yes. :D It was, for some odd reason, the first thing I could think of.

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i've been all those places on holiday except penistone. Its where i live.

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Why in the world would you even want to use that word?

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I felt bad for his punishment, can I take it for me, please? I love udon noodles, I will take the suffereing at every opportunity :-)

bun

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And what is this crappy word? For those who isn't native, as me. :)

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sorry for breaking my promise but isn't avoiding such word in internets (you can't see if the guy is white or black or what) a bit ridiculous? I have rap cd's that has a lot of "nigging" and no-one seems to care about it. It's almost like it would be a cool thing to say....

e: sorry. just got flashback that I've seen the word before. I first niggardly thought that the word was referring to racial expression but it wasn't.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/niggardly

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I'm sorry, but isn't using a racial slur on a forum relating to a series of internet tablets made by Nokia as a way to sound cool even more ridiculous?

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It isn't a racial slur. It means to be stingy. You know, a tight wad. A niggard is a miser. In my opinion it perfectly apt in describing Nokia's nature, especially in regards to the n900. Where the hell is our Jurassic Roller Coaster? Tight wads! Give!

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*sigh*

Niggard and Niggardly actually have nothing at all to do with racial slurs or anything of the sort.

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banned! 3 lifetimes.

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Look at his reference. His statements about it being used, rather erroneously, in music has absolutely nothing to do with the aforesaid miserly synonym.

His verbiage denotes the slur and not a proper usage of the word.

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Correct.. we were correct ossipena, ctbeiser, and from appearances, you when you said to FMS:

It's a perfectly legitimate word and people shouldn't need to change the English Language just because it seems similar to a "bad" word.

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I don't understand... and would rather not assume.

True. But still... just an odd word to randomly bring up; not a word that's apparently culled from the dictionary words that are taboo to be used here.

Thus, the question. Why would you want to use that word and ultimately, why would you ask? It's not censored.

I didn't note that it's a racial slur until somebody decided to bring up music and I'm quite sure they do not use that word in that genre of music. They tend to stick with the slur or misspellings of that slur therein.

I'm still at a loss as to why oxy ***** is censored though.

Ah... it's the word mo ron that's censored. Now that's RANDOM.

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I have seen the word "niggardly" injected into a thread specifically for reaction. I guess it worked.

As for m o r o n, well I gather the purpose is to avoid flare ups should one poster refer to another using that term.

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Doesn't stop people from using cretin, idiot, troglodyte, simpleton, blockhead, ignoramus, dunce, dumbbell... and many others.

The only reaction (for the record) I had was about fms randomly pitching that word; it's not censored. The rest... you already know.

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Technically though, that's the problem with any filters. You're never going to have 100% protection against insults or flames.

And my post should have said "we were correcting".. as the people I mentioned seemed to take that word as the racial slur and not the actual word.

O x y m o r o n, in whole, is probably not specifically set as banned. My thoughts are that, as you said, the second half of the word is banned and the forums are setup to block all words that have the banned words in them, in whole.

Now.. I have to agree that I think the other word isn't really the same. That's just a supposedly controversial word that shares a phonetic similarity to a word with negative connotations, but spelling (and meaning) are completely unrelated. If it was perhaps spelled the same as the other, just add a "d" or something, that might make more sense. But as it is, the one (oxytroglodyte :D), is a software failure of over-sensitivity - the other is simply a human ignorance problem of not knowing the word.

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No inanity or sarcasm for a week.