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12/12/2005 07:39:35 PM · #1 |
So I was posting on a baseball forum board about the shortstop position and I typed "short" instead. When I hit submit it said that the word "short" was objectionable and I needed to change it?
Is the word tall objectionable? What word can I use to describe someone that is not quite as tall as average if I can't use short? Horizontally challenged? Untall?
Next I won't be able to say Merry Christmas! PC gone wild... |
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12/12/2005 07:43:41 PM · #2 |
| ahh, that would be vertically challenged, the horizontally or circumferential challenged have a slightly different problem. :) |
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12/12/2005 07:46:08 PM · #3 |
whoops, what was i thinking?
Message edited by author 2005-12-12 19:46:26. |
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12/12/2005 08:01:18 PM · #4 |
| I looked up short alternatives. I guess I can call short people; Abbreviated, brief, blunt, chunky, summarized, runty, dwarfish, stubby, wee or scant. |
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12/16/2005 02:03:52 PM · #5 |
You might want to get in the habit of calling everyone "human" so when you're 90 years old and that's the only term that is acceptable you won't be viewed as a bigot.
Message edited by author 2005-12-16 14:04:50. |
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12/16/2005 03:47:01 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by louddog:
So I was posting on a baseball forum board about the shortstop position and I typed "short" instead. When I hit submit it said that the word "short" was objectionable and I needed to change it?
Is the word tall objectionable? What word can I use to describe someone that is not quite as tall as average if I can't use short? Horizontally challenged? Untall?
Next I won't be able to say Merry Christmas! PC gone wild... |
It is possible that it has nothing whatever to do with PC language and people of lesser stature -- since this is a "baseball only" site, it may be that they have an editorial policy against abbreviating the word "shortstop" within the site, although I personally would find it a stupid rule without hearing some good reasons.
Or, someone may have made a mistake in setting up the database of banned words. Have you written the site admins and asked them WWYT? |
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12/16/2005 11:48:49 PM · #7 |
I know which forums these are; these are the message boards for the MLB 'official' team websites. They censor a lot of words, and replace them with #### when they post your message. For example, I wrote a post about a Washington Senators outfielder who retired less than 50 hits short of 3000, and the website posted it as '50 hits ##### of 3000'. More ridiculousness; 'dick' is one of their no-no words, so if you try to refer to, say, Dick Radatz in your message it will be posted as #### Radatz!
The MLB team website message boards are among the worst, and perhaps THE worst, message boards I have ever tried to post to. |
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12/16/2005 11:53:59 PM · #8 |
| I played baseball for 3 seasons between 1997 and 1999. I actually played shortstop for the last 2 seasons which is quite ironic because I am short! :p |
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