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   From: sheath@gamepilgrimage.com   
      
   Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Scott H   wrote:   
   >> BelPowerslave wrote:   
   >>>> I demoed it in a store, found the gameplay interesting enough and then   
   >>>> got sidetracked by Spikeout: Battlestreet.  The plethora of F-Bombs   
   >>>> also deterred me from picking this one up.   
   >>> I actually *like* having that in a game. ;)  The Yakuza and God of War   
   >>> games are the reason I am really trying to keep up with that PS2   
   >> Well, don't get me wrong.  It is not that I find the words "fuck" or   
   >> "fucker" offensive, I just find the terms horribly misused.  I mean,   
   >> "fuck" hardly means "fornication under carnal knowledge" anymore.  It   
   >> seems to be used as an expletive to express premature emotions.  If I   
   >> still had access to the Oxford English Dictionary, I'm sure I could find   
   >> out what the words mean today.  I'm sure the OED could distinguish   
   >> between a situation that just demands one to exclaim "fuck" from a   
   >> person who is a "fucker", as the protagonist in Yakusa clearly is.  I   
   >> also require further clarification between these two terms and the act   
   >> of fucking, which I distinguish from the act of "love making", or the   
   >> act of "sex" without personal preference.   
   >   
   > No room for evolving colloquialisms there? Obviously the profanity in   
   > question has a specific original meaning, but in a modern construction   
   > it's generally accepted as a non-specific diminutive or perjorative term.   
   > It's like misusing 'Old School' to refer to any type of music whose time   
   > has passed, rather than the specific disco-break-based rap of 1977-1982.   
   >   
   > I cheerfully allow for the fact that you're just having a good time with   
   > purposefully dense pedantry and that you don't actually feel strongly   
   > about the subject in question. :)   
      
   I suppose in a post-modern world one could say any potentially offensive   
   term as readily as "yes" or "no" and everything remains the same.   
      
   > -KKC, who needs to get back to Yakuza at some point when he's tired of the   
   > GTA IV world.   
      
   Well, if you haven't fucking finished with Yakuza, why the fuck did you   
   buy GTAIV?   
      
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