If we were to "dress up" our profanity in finery, say Latin, Pig Latin, Middle English, Yiddish, or Esperanto

Question

would we, do you think, be able to evade the Yahoo! censors and Manners Police?

Some intelligent people at times use profanity (perhaps appropriately so). Some people who habitually use profanity are also intelligent. Are these statements so surprising?

Answer 1

For a while yes. I used to staff on an on-line RPG that had a rule against profanity. Some people got pretty creative but they did tend to forget that the staff was from all over the world and would catch them eventually. And there were always the other players to rat them out.

Answer 2

LOL!!!
I could fire some Greek profanity right now and no one would know :-)

I think the people that use profanity here do it tp provoke both the Yahoo Censors and Manners Police as well as the thousands of users. Latin or Esperado is of no use to them. Besides, I don't think those who use profanity here, know anything about Latin, Esperanto , Yiddish, or Middle English. Those that do know, would never use profanity at least I hope not. So let the Yahoo Police do their job and let me use my Gr**k as I please :-)



Please note...




Yes, some intelligent people do use profanity, it's true.

Your question , however, pertains to Yahoo and I do doubt that intelligent people here, would get their kicks by using profanity. Yet who knows,,,,maybe they do.

Answer 3

You do not need to use foul language to issue a powerful insult. See the examples below:

CLASSY INSULTS
Insults used to have class... in the good ol' days!

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
-- Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
-- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries
with great pleasure."
-- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a
reader to the dictionary."
-- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from
big words?"
-- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste
no time reading it."
-- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of
any man I know."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-- Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
-- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-- Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."
-- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
-- Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
-- Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
-- John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
-- Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
-- Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
-- Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy."
-- Walter Kerr

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
-- Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
-- Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the
sum of human knowledge."
-- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears,
but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
-- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
-- Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
-- Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any
address on it?"
-- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever
they go."
-- Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...
for support rather than illumination."
-- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-- Billy Wilder
---
Mar Kardenas
www.grupoamikema.org

Answer 4

How To Talk Dirty In Esperanto:

http://mindprod.com/esperanto/dirty.html

;-)

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I've always been told that people who use profanity lack sufficient vocabulary and/or intelligence to otherwise express themselves.

Answer 7

Uckfay yeah!

Answer 8

Give it a go and see what happens.
Good luck.