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Old 04-21-2010, 04:36 PM   #51
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Yeah. When SJGames do this sort of thing with their own stuff (i.e. pick over ambiguous wordings &c) they do it on closed playtest lists. And I am inclined to agree that the nitty-gritty of playtesting, reader feedback, &c is not good material to publish. Publishing it on someone else's forums would be rude, I think.
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Old 08-28-2013, 07:54 PM   #52
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I read a thing a while ago by one of the writers of Deadwood, who said that all the cussin' in the actual Deadwood would have been blasphemy, not obscenity, but that if they had written it that way audiences wouldn't have got how shocking it was to contemporary sensibilities.

For a long time I have been unsatisfied by blasphemy and obscenity as cuss-words in the Imperial Service in Flat Black, where 85% of the people have no experience of religion, almost no-one is legitimate (as opposed to a bastard) in any discernible sense, and ******* and ******* are things you do with acquaintances when all the squash courts are booked.

So what is tabooed talk among Imperial servants? It struck me yesterday: violence and killing. "Nuke", "bomb", "kill".
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Old 08-28-2013, 08:08 PM   #53
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So what is tabooed talk among Imperial servants? It struck me yesterday: violence and killing. "Nuke", "bomb", "kill".
Irreverent references to Earth or Mayflower?
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Old 08-28-2013, 08:18 PM   #54
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Eating multicellular organisms?
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"Listen up you carnivores, or I'm about to go Kobayshi on you! "?
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Old 08-29-2013, 01:23 AM   #56
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So what is tabooed talk among Imperial servants? It struck me yesterday: violence and killing. "Nuke", "bomb", "kill".
The Tech Priesthood of my silly space opera setting use the names of famous science foes as cursewords. "Lysenko" and so forth.

Actually a list of such names would be useful, even though most of the actual names they use will be fictional since it takes place many tens of thousands of years into the future. The only name I can think of offhand, is that one, "Lysenko".
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'Spammer' is a curse-word for the ages.
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Old 08-29-2013, 02:48 AM   #58
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Old 08-29-2013, 08:08 AM   #59
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I can imagine a graduated series of cusses using the "D#" terminology.

"My little deetee" (D3) translates roughly as "rapscallion." It is humorous exaggeration to imply a youngster is so chaotically energetic that they are a small natural disaster. A larger natural disaster of a child, or 'deefer,' is less affectionate and more exasperated. Applied to events, it implies manageable annoyance. "This deetee computer" causes lots of trouble, while "the deefer enviro plant" is more trouble than it is worth and should be replaced.

"A real deezix" (D6) is roughly equivalent to "A right bastard."

"That's dettin awful" (D10) is not fit for company. Implies a CT strike on a high tech colony.

"Deefinity" is either beyond the pale or back into the realm of humorous exaggeration. Possibly both.
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Old 08-30-2013, 02:21 AM   #60
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Maybe. It seems to me that spamming is only possible in systems which enables anybody to "send" to anybody else. That's the case with the kind of email we have, but it doesn't seem to me that all electronic communciations systems necessarily have to have that "feature". On Facebook, for instance, mails from strangers are placed in an obscure folder that most people never look in, and often don't even know exist.

Much of the problem behnid spam is also that you can't be sure of the identity of the sender. It's possible to fake the sender's identity. I'm not sure that's a given either, but rather a feature of the design of our current email system. Other worlds, and far future worlds, may use a differently designed email'ish system where you can't do that.
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