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I am relatively new to snowheads and don't post often, however i noticed that when i used the word lady's front bottom in one of my posts it came out as "ladies front bottom" automatically.
Can anyone tell me what other words get automatically translated to something less offensive 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Have a try - you'll soon find out 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| cathy wrote: |
| Have a try - you'll soon find out |
I know, i am itching to write vagina but am wondering i will get banned, having tourettes is such an isue and i get fed up of bing descriminated against
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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maybe it's just cos your a FÄNNY that your discriminated against 
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Timbobaggins, Just wondering what will happen to Punani!
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| Timbobaggins wrote: |
| cathy wrote: |
| Have a try - you'll soon find out |
I know, i am itching to write vagina but am wondering i will get banned, having tourettes is such an isue and i get fed up of bing descriminated against |
You can find out without actually posting by using the "preview" button
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It's there for a reason, please don't try to evade it by using foreign characters. CHildren do read this site, let's be grown up shall we?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Timbobaggins, there might be some other fora where your enthusiasm for discussing female genitalia might be more readily indulged. This one is mainly about snowsports.
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Timbobaggins, why would you want to use such a horrid term anyway (I mean the real word, not the euphimism)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| nbt wrote: |
| It's there for a reason, please don't try to evade it by using foreign characters. |
Only latchigo equates foreign characters with "see you next tuesdays". 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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There seems to be an unwritten rule that one only by-passes the profanity filter as a very last resort.
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I like the way it pluralizes and punctuates it correctly 
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You know it makes sense.
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| pam w wrote: |
| Timbobaggins, there might be some other fora where your enthusiasm for discussing female genitalia might be more readily indulged. This one is mainly about snowsports. |
Pam good point. I appologise if offended anyone, i have actually asked some serious questions re snow related issues.'
Mind you did ask one about snowchains recently!!
Just my warped sense of humour
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Timbobaggins, chains are fair enough, but don't venture to snow tyres.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Timbobaggins wrote: |
| cathy wrote: |
| Have a try - you'll soon find out |
I know, i am itching to write ( edited to avid offence as i think i have upset some snow heads ) but am wondering i will get banned, having tourettes is such an isue and i get fed up of bing descriminated against |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Timbobaggins wrote: |
| cathy wrote: |
| Have a try - you'll soon find out |
I know, i am itching to write ( edited as i have caused offence ) but am wondering i will get banned, having tourettes is such an isue and i get fed up of bing descriminated against |
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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My personal favourite is mummy's little sweetie
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| pam w wrote: |
| there might be some other fora where your enthusiasm for discussing female genitalia might be more readily indulged. |
is fora really the plural of forum.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Timbobaggins, chains are fair enough, but don't venture to snow tyres.
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and lets leave helmets out too.
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| There seems to be an unwritten rule that one only by-passes the profanity filter as a very last resort. |
...yeah.... normally when replying to me!!
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| Wayne wrote: |
| pam w wrote: |
| there might be some other fora where your enthusiasm for discussing female genitalia might be more readily indulged. |
is fora really the plural of forum. |
this from a man who teaches in Italy? It's a word from Latin, so yes -
Data = plural
Datum = Singular
and the reverse conjugation
Forum = singular
Fora = plural
although forums is also acceptable
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and, of course, there's "meeja". As in "I'm doing meeja studies for AS level".
And please note, "data" is the plural form, so don't let's be hearing "the data suggests that swine flu cases are still increasing".
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Lalalala...... 
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You're getting excited aren't you, Hurtle?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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andyph, but trying not to!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| pam w wrote: |
And please note, "data" is the plural form, so don't let's be hearing "the data suggests that swine flu cases are still increasing". |
It is rare that a single datum would suggest that, so the phrase would usually be correct.
Technically, one could argue that the "suggests" in that phrase should be "suggest", but that just sounds wrong, regardless of technicalities.
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| Technically, one could argue that the "suggests" in that phrase should be "suggest", but that just sounds wrong, regardless of technicalities. |
Now now, alex_heney, attitudes like that aren't going to get you graduated from Pedant College.
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You know it makes sense.
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one could argue that the "suggests" in that phrase should be "suggest", but that just sounds wrong,
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yes, it does "sound" wrong and my tongue was firmly in my cheek, but it remains correct; we've just got used to people treating "data" , incorrectly, as a singular noun. I once had a Statistics lecturer who was quite pedantic on this point.
The statement in fact HAS to suppose that there is more than one datum - how could a single figure be used to draw any conclusions about a trend?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| nbt wrote: |
| this from a man who teaches in Italy? It's a word from Latin, |
Meeeeeeooww
No need for that was there.
But since you (sort of) asked to be corrected.
1st of all the fact the a word is derived from, associated with, coined from, or any other etymological jiggery pokey you can come up with does NOT mean that modern noun (pluralised) should also hold.
For example
The plural (from the English plurel, from the Latin plūrālis) of Forum (in modern English) is Forums “not"Fora". Even though Wiki knowledge states differently (wiki-ain’t-always-correct-ya-know)
Oh and before any Wiki-Bods start winging that it really should be Fora - note;
A forum (exchange of views) is just a abrogation of the Latin for (lit) “To Be Outdoors” which is where the Fora took place, and, as this forum (well me anyway) is indoors ???
The Plural of a number of people (being outside) exchanging views would be (in modern English) a football crowd not a fora
Enjoy
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Poster: A snowHead
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well I have always said "fora", and shall continue to do so, but I'm sure both forms are perfectly acceptable, so I'm not too sure why Wayne bothered about it in the first place. Anyway, his intervention had the merit of stopping everybody talking about rude words.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wayne, or just a bunch of smokers outside the pub?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| pam w wrote: |
| well I have always said "fora", and shall continue to do so, but I'm sure both forms are perfectly acceptable, |
No they ain't, unless you live in the Vatican which (I think) is the only state to have Latin as the official language. I speak English not Latin, so it’s forums.
| pam w wrote: |
| Anyway, his intervention had the merit of stopping everybody talking about rude words. |
Am in Zermatt at the mo, and the lifts all closed today at lunch time due to the wind. Also can I say it was fecking cold this morning.
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and medium/mediums? datum/datums? criterion/criterions? mouse/mouses? spouse/spice? Since when has English had a standard way of creating plurals? It's not a word I use in the plural very often, but "fora" is just what sprang into my mind, and what I have generally heard used over the years. Googling around a bit the conclusion seems to be that both are acceptable.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Wayne wrote: |
| .....The plural (from the English plurel, from the Latin plūrālis) of Forum (in modern English) is Forums “not"Fora". Even though Wiki knowledge states differently (wiki-ain’t-always-correct-ya-know)..... |
Is the Chambers Dictionary (1998 edition, reprinted 2002) written by the pig-ignorant, too? It allows either forums or fora.
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I say...nice thread drift!
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Mmm! spices the plural of spouse - is that why tumeric and the like derived their usage from then, i.e. making the mundanne a little more interesting?
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ooh, that stings Wayne.
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I understand both to be acceptable but tend to use fora as it feels correct
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