Good, I'd hate for my children to be subjected to any use of "thorpe". In this God-fearing house we call them villages or hamlets.Chap wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:03 pmThis still happens? Long ago the British town of Scunthorpe decided that it should have a web page.
It took them a while before they worked out why their efforts to set one up ran into apparently insuperable obstacles, and longer to persuade the powers that be to let them appear online.
Word replacement on the board
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He/Him
“If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.”
― Xenophon
“If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.”
― Xenophon
Re: Word replacement on the board
Xenophon wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 5:34 pmGood, I'd hate for my children to be subjected to any use of "thorpe". In this God-fearing house we call them villages or hamlets.Chap wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:03 pmThis still happens? Long ago the British town of Scunthorpe decided that it should have a web page.
It took them a while before they worked out why their efforts to set one up ran into apparently insuperable obstacles, and longer to persuade the powers that be to let them appear online.
he/him
When I go to sea, don’t fear for me. Fear for the storm.
Jessica Best, Fear for the Storm. From The Strange Case of the Starship Iris.
When I go to sea, don’t fear for me. Fear for the storm.
Jessica Best, Fear for the Storm. From The Strange Case of the Starship Iris.
Re: Word replacement on the board
Just when I had gotten over thisDr. Shades wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:29 amYour two sentences contradict each other. Please pick one.
I guess I should choose my battles more wisely.
Well what prompted my OP was sending a PM quoting someone who used the word f’ing and it was replaced with damned.
Do I have to pick only one? I suppose it doesn't really matter since I shouldn't be using that word anyway.
If I had to pick one, I'd say use the actual word when quoting someone, but I have no idea what all you may go through as an admin or moderator if this were the case. I'm just going to back down and accept things the way they are.
The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession... The LORD set his love on you and chose you... The LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery. Deut. 7