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Webslave
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:03 pm
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German accented text?
James Morgan
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Maikha
Not a gunzel
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:20 pm
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Text written in a manner to imitate english spoken with a heavy German accent.
Cheers
Maikha "V" Ly
Cheers
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Johnmc
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:37 pm
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...You are meanink zat I can no longer do my "Ve haf vays ov making you tok?" imprezzions? Scheisse. You are no fun.
... and on that highly cultured note, what about naughty words in foreign languagues?
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Maikha
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:42 pm
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| Johnmc wrote: | | ...You are meanink zat I can no longer do my "Ve haf vays ov making you tok?" imprezzions? Scheisse. You are no fun. |
Sorry, could you translate that? 
| Johnmc wrote: | | ... and on that highly cultured note, what about naughty words in foreign languagues? |
Well ignorance is bliss isn't it. If the moderators don't know what it means.....
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:54 pm
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Aaaar, Ð.. M..
Wotcha Maikha. 
Humphrey! We're leaving!
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michaelgreenhill
Patron Saint of Alcohol
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:24 pm
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| mickelaar wrote: | | Whatabout realy pox avatars??? *looking in Michael Greenhills direction* |
Bah, only for you Mick I'll change it
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Flagstaff
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:26 pm
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I have never been able to find out what these terms mean:
lmao
brb
AFAIK and AIU
No matter how many times I read AFAIK I still do not have a clue, (Please Tell Me).
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Other terms that should be permitted:
PM - Private Message
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
& - and
AU$ - Australian currency
Stn - Station
WTF can be replaced with OMG
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4BJ
Chief Commissioner
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:03 pm
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| TLD™ wrote: | | Farewell 'WTF'. **sniff** |
Me too. I have used it a few times myself. It will be sorely missed.
| Flagstaff wrote: | | WTF can be replaced with OMG |
True, but 'WTF' has a better impact.
I assume that 'OMFG' and 'JFC' get the order of the Rear End too.
I'm not crazy, M'Lynn, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years!
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:41 pm
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| Flagstaff wrote: | I have never been able to find out what these terms mean:
lmao
brb
AFAIK and AIU |
lmao: laughing my a*se off
brb: (I'll) be right back
AFAIK: As far as I know
AIU: (never seen this one before in my life, but I assume it means) as I understand
Humphrey! We're leaving!
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TA3015
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:21 pm
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Correct TLD™
I follow Van Berloism. What did you put on your Census form?
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EvanC
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:11 am
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And IIRC = If I Remember Correctly
BTW - what's wrong with ampersands? (&) 
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wurx
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:24 am
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| TheLoadedDog™ wrote: | I'm changing my full support to mostly supporting this.
I've got a small concern about one area, and that is the concept of "banned words". I think a list of words or acronyms which are verboten is arbitrary and unwieldy. Message board rules should operate at a much broader level than this. A complex list of three different levels "not permitted, "tolerated is small doses", and "to be used freely" is going to going to catch out innocent newbies, or regulars who use certain terms absentmindedly. I think, if an otherwise unblemished post has, for example, one usage of the word "wot", then that post should not be removed, and its author should not be hassled. On the other hand, the SMS-style posts should of course be pulled. Moderators should act more like judges and less like legislators, IMHO. The rules should be more analogous to common law than the statute variety. Discretion and willingness to interpret the rules is the hallmark of good moderation. Blind adherence to black and white rules is not good moderation.
Some black and white rules will always be necessary. There should not be a huge number of them, and they should be broad. My favourite one of these is from another board I visit: We have one guiding principle: Don't be a jerk. Brilliant. That board does have other, more specific rules, but you could near get away with just having that one. I've adopted it for my own board (except I changed the American "jerk" to the much more local "goose"), and I'd recommend it for this board.
Rather than endless argument over which slang should and shouldn't be permitted, why not just have "thou shalt type in accepted colloquial Australian English" and leave it at that?
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4BJ
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:34 am
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My guess is what we are getting at is that SHOUTING will no longer be tolerated on this forum and the use of SMS/Chatroom English will be tolerated to an extent. And not before time.
I'm not crazy, M'Lynn, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years!
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wurx
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 12:41 am
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| michaelgreenhill wrote: | | mickelaar wrote: | | Whatabout realy pox avatars??? *looking in Michael Greenhills direction* |
Bah, only for you Mick I'll change it |
Go Kryten!!!!  
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Dusty
Chief Train Controller
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 1:12 am
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Interesting. I was taught to use "&" as an abbreviation of "and" by my English teacher back in the sixties. It has been a legitimate abbreviation for a long time, just as "$" for "dollars" is. That's why it's been included on the keyboard of every typewriter "&" computer I've ever seen. Even the typewriter my mother used wich was made in the forties has got it. I think it should be removed from the "banned" list.
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