[Discuss] speech, cursing, vulgarity

[Anthony Anderson]

On 2/14/07, zmobiebob <saintmaggot at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Well, what next? Thee's and thou's, shalls instead of wills? Or how about
> the usage of LOLs that I see in non-OOC messages. Nobles shouldn't be using
> 20th century AOL slang.
>
> The disease you are trying to cure with this is not vulgarity but the
> general lax roleplaying standards overall. And that's a bigger problem than
> can be solved with enforcing in-character language limitations.
>

Why do you think he emphasized "noble speech".  We all had this conversation
when the vulgarity complaint option first appeared on FEI.  What is "vulgar"
in medieval terms, rather than today?

*characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste
*crude; coarse; unrefined
*of, pertaining to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society

Essentially, vulgarity in BM should be considered as nobles speaking as if
they were common folk.  A count acting as if he were a peasant.  It's not an
attempt to remove all curse words from the game.  And I think the option
available on FEI should be extended to the whole game.  It is player
decided- just that it's random players in random realms on that island,
rather than just a single realm.
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