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Zonie63 -> RE: Should we be able to call a rose, a rose? (1/6/2014 5:25:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MisterP61
I think about this one often. I am not talking about simple disagreements with friends and foes. I am talking about the legitimate twatwaffles out there. Of course My vote is for the letting them know they are twatwaffles and freedom of speech, but that is just My opinion.
ETA punctuation... yet again >.<
The problem that I would see with this is that there's no universally-accepted standard as to what constitutes a "twatwaffle," legitimate or otherwise. One person's "twatwaffle" might be another's "greatest human who ever lived."
If it's a matter of educating another poster (i.e. "letting them know they are [fill in the blank]"), then it's really only a matter of explaining one's position and the basis of one's opposition/disagreement with another poster's view. By calling someone a "twatwaffle" or some other name, the other person would only take that as meaning that you don't like them or what they wrote, but it doesn't explain why or what the basis of your disagreement is.
Personally, insults or harsh talk never really bothered me that much, but throwaway one-liners without any specifics or clarity can be rather pointless and offer nothing to a discussion. Jargon terms and slang might also cloud and confuse the discussion, like if someone doesn't know what a "twatwaffle" is. (Can one obtain a waffle iron which would make waffles in that particular shape?) If someone called someone else by that name, it would still be difficult to ascertain exactly what complaint is being made and what the basis of one's negative opinion might be.
Come to think of it, it is rather strange that we commonly use slang terms for genitalia as insults. It's the kind of crude stuff we would giggle at in sixth grade, but the better insults might tend to use a higher-level vocabulary and even scientific terms when appropriate. The best kind of insult is when they don't even know they're being insulted.
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