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Caporegime
- Joined
- 29 Aug 2007
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- Auckland
Like dogs that eat too much, are sick, and then eat their own sick, GD once again finds itself in that repeating prism of word misuse, specifically and to whit: 'woke' and 'gammon'. I'll let everyone take a moment to shudder at just how awful, how repetitive, how stripped of any meaning these tragi-words have become, how boring and lazy they are to employ, how little they add to any dialogue other than to profess affiliation, just how worthless they are as conversational currency. Take a deep breath, it'll help.
GD has never been one for self-regulation; we won't or more likely can't. The playground mentality of herd 1 versus herd 2 and a free platform on which to play this out is too strong. Certain words have been censored in the past and replaced with asterisks, a clumsy but effective method, and sometimes words just pass their use by date and we move on to the next thing (and in true GD style hammer it silly, then drown it, then cut it up into pieces, and bury it in the garden, just to make sure that horse is absolutely flogged to death).
So, what to do with 'woke' and 'gammon'? They seem to be everywhere on GD, far more prevalent than the internet at large, and that's only partly because a large proportion of GD posters parrot without thought or any pretence at considering 'the other side'. Do you think these words will pass, or that they'll get censored in some way (my guess), or just left to clog up the forums?
Thoughts?
GD has never been one for self-regulation; we won't or more likely can't. The playground mentality of herd 1 versus herd 2 and a free platform on which to play this out is too strong. Certain words have been censored in the past and replaced with asterisks, a clumsy but effective method, and sometimes words just pass their use by date and we move on to the next thing (and in true GD style hammer it silly, then drown it, then cut it up into pieces, and bury it in the garden, just to make sure that horse is absolutely flogged to death).
So, what to do with 'woke' and 'gammon'? They seem to be everywhere on GD, far more prevalent than the internet at large, and that's only partly because a large proportion of GD posters parrot without thought or any pretence at considering 'the other side'. Do you think these words will pass, or that they'll get censored in some way (my guess), or just left to clog up the forums?
Thoughts?
