Why would "Gran" ever be a banned word?

[Razor]

I'm pretty sure in the Chef Aid South Park CD from many many years ago, the word "mother****er" was on it. And I think it was on the censored version of the CD, the bleep covered "mother" but strangely left "****er" for all to hear.

[Emerates]

Probably because it was more offensive to mothers than fuckers.

[Archem]

Let's have a social experiment: For the next month, any time someone wishes to insult another member, refer to them as "gran". To aid the experiment, don't hold back; if you're mad at someone, don't be reasonable. Don't be thoughtful. Don't try to avoid conflict. Make a split-second decision, type angrily, and call them a "gran". After the month, we should look at the impact of the word on our community, and then take another look at this situation.


Fuck all you grans.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

Hey, fuck you too, king gran! You have no right to call us grans!

granny-ass motherfucker...

[cherko]

Let's have a social experiment: For the next month, any time someone wishes to insult another member, refer to them as "gran". To aid the experiment, don't hold back; if you're mad at someone, don't be reasonable. Don't be thoughtful. Don't try to avoid conflict. Make a split-second decision, type angrily, and call them a "gran". After the month, we should look at the impact of the word on our community, and then take another look at this situation.


Fuck all you grans.

Is it alright if I spread the word to other communities?

[Desimodontidae]

It hurts when I gran

[Grandy]

I'd be part of the experiment if the idea wasn't so Arch.

[Archem]

Wow, you just made "Arch" sound very awesome. I'm honored.

Oh, and Desi? You may want to have a doctor check that out. As far as I know, you shouldn't be granning at all.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

As far as I know, you shouldn't be granning at all.

Dammit, I knew he was lying!

[Drace]

But words are human creation, we place meaning on these words and their level of vulgarity.

You do know that by placing a cencorship on a word, their level of vulgarity and their meaning becomes stronger?
Children like to do things that are banned. If these words weren't cenconsored to begin with, most of them wouldn't even be used that much.

[Ratty524]

Makes me recall some shitty korean third person action game called Rakion I used to play some year ago, they censored almost everything the same whay. But instead of asterisks they used LOVE so "**** you" would become "LOVE you". Its so much sillier than asterisks. Why they would ban Gran I have no idea.

Dude that is funny.

You do know that by placing a cencorship on a word, their level of vulgarity and their meaning becomes stronger?
Children like to do things that are banned. If these words weren't cenconsored to begin with, most of them wouldn't even be used that much.

You have a point. Censoring doesn't just cover up something that society deemed to be "inappropriate," it also creates wonder, specifically of what was being censored. Kids are way more curious than adults, so they are more likely to find these words on their own. Censorship doesn't really help anything.

[Red Giant]

You do know that by placing a cencorship on a word, their level of vulgarity and their meaning becomes stronger?
Children like to do things that are banned. If these words weren't cenconsored to begin with, most of them wouldn't even be used that much.

Indeed. It's funny, desi, but my reasoning is opposite to yours for the same reasons. It is the very arbitrariness of swear words that makes it almost ridiculous to ban them. I heard that in a certain language phonetically saying "Coca Cola". This may or may not be an urban myth, but that's besides the point. This hypothetic race uses Coca Cola to express anger, we use it to speak of a drink. Which of us is using the word "right"? Of course the word- the string of sounds- has no value outside that which it has been applied to it. It is by the merest historical accident that our "Coca Cola" is perfectly non-vulgar. Words are tools. To suggest that they are anything more seems to me to require a mindset that borders on magical thinking.

On the other hand, murder for personal gain (The gaining of points) or enjoyment is as close to objectively evil as we are ever going to get. I'm not saying we should ban games like that. I'm just saying we should get our priorities right.

[Desimodontidae]

Yeah, that kind of reminds me of the episode of Recess from back in the day... "Man this whomps!" Anyone else remember that? Well it made a pretty good point. That words are just words interpreted however the listener wants, no matter what the person who said it intended. We can learn much from cartoons of yesteryear...

[Moosetroop11]

What the gran's going on here? I'm absent for a while and you guys arch everything up!

[Uberpwn_w00t]

Hey, hey, hey! You're a moderator! Try to set an example...