endostate Posted May 8, 2014 Posted May 8, 2014 Banning seems overly authoritative; domineering in fact.. Almost highhanded, officious, dictational; perhaps overbearing, even abrasive. What's the word for that?
Clay Posted May 8, 2014 Posted May 8, 2014 I think it's the most important issue of our times. Statism, War, National Debts, etc. all pale in comparison to the sheer havok that the word "Bossy" has wrought upon society. It must be stopped!
ParaSait Posted May 8, 2014 Posted May 8, 2014 Banning the word "bossy" actually gives 2 reasons to start saying "tyrannical" instead.
vlbk Posted May 8, 2014 Posted May 8, 2014 I don't think banning the word will work. The word bossy is used to describe the way a person acts. People are still going to act bossy, even after it's banned. If the word is eliminated, the meaning behind it still exists. The meaning of the word will transfer to a brand new word, because people act bossy, and there will be a need to verbalize it. Bossy......
massaki Posted May 9, 2014 Author Posted May 9, 2014 Ok pretend that i am a feminist how would you convince me not to campaign to ban the word bossy.
dsayers Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 Ok pretend that i am a feminist how would you convince me not to campaign to ban the word bossy. http://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/39560-banning-the-word-bossy/
P. Mason Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 There's a difference between saying someone is bossy vs being bossy and banning the word bossy.
FriendlyHacker Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 War on drugs, War on terrorism and now War on Words? I propose we start a War on Wars on abstract concepts.
PatrickC Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 Ok pretend that i am a feminist how would you convince me not to campaign to ban the word bossy. If you were a feminist old chap, you should know that there would be no way of convincing you. Because you know you are right.
nathanm Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 It's a risky thing to ban words. Because there's no way to get them back. Once a word has been banned all the people with knowledge of that word are sworn to an oath of silence. Then begins the enormous process of removing the word from books, magazines, newspapers, films, digital files and internet-based mediums. This does put a lot of people to work, though. To date there have been only 17 banned words in the English language. Unfortunately there's no way of knowing what they were. Some people alive still know them in their mind, but of course cannot speak or write them. It's entirely possible that if this campaign succeeds, we will be the last generation of people with conscious knowledge that the word "bossy" ever existed. People in the know may give each other a nervous glance when the word "boss" is used, which is dangerously close. Some extremists are even pushing for banning "boss" but that's merely a tiny fringe element.
Songbirdo Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 To date there have been only 17 banned words in the English language. Unfortunately there's no way of knowing what they were. Where did you hear this? How do we know there's exactly 17 of them yet not know what they are?
DanielB Posted May 9, 2014 Posted May 9, 2014 Seriously? Ban a word? Whatever for? Because you don't like what it means or stands for? And apart from the principle (which is really all that matters), can't you think of dozens of examples where words were banned or deemed not-PC, simply to be replaced by other words that mean exactly the same thing? The N-word (so awful we can't say it without severe repercussions), negro, black, African-American... Has it improved or changed anything? It's about the thing, not the word that points to that thing. What was wrong with 'homosexual?' Why appropriate another word (gay) that used to have a perfectly good neutral meaning to apply to a group of people who fit that word about as often as people who are not homosexuals? People who are strange cannot be called queer unless they happen to be gay, in which case they're not strange or happy, just homosexual. I think it just messes up the issues.
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