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Pissed off layman

01:09

Is swearing allowed in chatrooms?

Recently I was suspended for 30 minutes for using the group of symbols:

f*ck

While other users actually spelled out the entire word. My message was deleted just before the suspension and the rest of the users continued on using the fully spelled out word.

Question: why?

terdon

@Pissedofflayman Probably because people thought you were actually telling someone to go fuck themselves, as opposed to demonstrating an example of how it could be used. If enough people flag something as offensive, you get suspended automatically by the system.

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Pissed off layman

02:30

Ok @terdon thanks, that makes sense now :-)

Btw nice hat.

5 hours later…

Anonymous

07:14

@Pissedofflayman Users are shown flagged messages out of context. Because they're shown to so many users, and users who don't take the time to investigate and read the message in context will of course be faster to react, flags on messages like yours may be mistakenly validated.

Anonymous

It's only a thirty minute suspension so it's not a big deal, but if I'd seen it while it was still active, I would have unsuspended your account.

Anonymous

In general, using words like fuck isn't necessarily a violation of any rules, but aggressively attacking another user is against the rules, and that sort of language is a problem when it's used to attack. The users who reviewed your flag presumably thought your message fit into the latter category because they didn't read the message in context.

Anonymous

Unfortunately, flags are shown to a very large number of users – not just to moderators, but to users who have at least 10k reputation across the SE network as well.

Anonymous

The system doesn't always work very well…

SmokeDetector

13:49

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body: How i got my ex back by Stella Best on english.stackexchange.com

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tchrist

15:00

@Cerberus Stealth Latin content hidden here :)

A: The name for a flowery expression - not a cliché

The year 19 ʙᴄ’s twin gifts urbi et orbi “Purple Dreams” wallpaper from nature.desktopnexus.com It was during the eighth year of the reign of Caesar Augustus, the selfsame year in which Agrippa completed his great Aqua Virgo, that Horace sent as an epistle to the consul Piso the poem we have c...

This is what comes from watching A Charlie Brown Christmas.

> Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus ...

RegDwigнt

Caravan Palace - Lone Digger

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Merry Christmas, everyone.

tchrist

15:22

Mary!

Silly marries.

NVZ

@tchrist I notice that this question was migrated to ELL, and now it's "migration rejected". But how come this question is up on both the sites at the same time?

Q: a sentence I am confused about past tense

sentence:"she was interested in gym in the past. she was fit." i asked it to my student and he answered the first "was" as "wasn't" he thinks "she was fit and did not need to be interested in gym" but I think contrary but after that other idea became logical too. what do you think?

Q: a sentence I am confused about past tense

Given this context: She was/wasn't interested in gym in the past. She was fit. I asked it to my student and he answered the first ("was" instead of "wasn't"). He thinks, "She was fit and therefore did not need to be interested in gym" but I think contrary but afterward that other student's ...

meaning word-choice past-tense negation

Oh. Okay. I now see that a moderator on ELL personally unlocked the question there after improving it with some edits.

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Pissed off layman

19:01

@snailplane thank you for taking the time to read the context in which the remark was made, that was an excellent explanation :-)

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Cerberus

20:03

@tchrist Not bad at all.

Wardour Street English

Wardour Street English, sometimes simply Wardour Street, refers to a pseudo-archaic form of diction affected by some writers, particularly those of historical fiction. The allusion is to Wardour Street's former reputation as a centre for dealers in antique and reproduction furniture and the supposed propensity of their kind for passing off modern imitations as the genuine article. Often attributed to H.W. Fowler, the phrase was in fact coined by the historian Archibald Ballantyne in an article entitled Wardour Street English, published in Longman's Magazine in 1888, in which, for example, h...

tchrist

20:14

@Cerberus Thanks. Seldom am I ever delighted with the wordings of existing poetic translations. They forget the poetry.

In particular, all the allusions of language in poetry.

For whatever reason I kept finding myself drawn to the paired four-beat alliterative lines of the North, with caesurae. I resisted most of that, but still found myself wondering whether they would deem broadly resplendent to alliterate on the stresses. :)

sky-light

tchrist

helli

and o

sky-light

I have a question please

The impact of the A and the B are considered.
or
The impact of the A and the B is considered.

and why ?

tchrist

Write it out in full. That will tell you the answer.

The impact of the annual bonus and the impact of the early retirement program are considered.

The impact of the tax reform and amnesty is considered.

The impacts of the annual bonus and the early retirement program are considered

You may be writing "impact" incorrectly. We cannot say.

It may be that you are talking about two impacts.

sky-light

Yes, I am talking about two impacts

tchrist

20:28

That's all that matters: how many impacts, how many verbiagings.

Then you need impacts if you apply conjunction reduction.

If you do not, you do not, but you still need are as I show.

But you cannot write "The impact of the annual bonus and of the early retirement program is/are considered" and get something that is grammatical either way.

sky-light

I think you made a very clear explanation. Thank you.

tchrist

Glad to have helped.

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