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Thoosies...Why the hate?

All this Thooooooooooooosie and foosie chat is confusing me.

This thread is quite entertaining though.
 
I thought the sad, mindless repressive censorship might just be a temporary error of judgement, not a long term thing.
We can live in hope of release from all this mindless, senseless repression.
Possibly.
 
I think the word came about since 'rollercoaster enthusiast' or 'theme park enthusiast' are wordy, lengthy phrases, and to be honest, sound quite sad. I don't feel like either phrase quite captures the essence of the hobby or community, it sounds like we look at a ride and have a little **** (which isn't to say some you don't do that).

People outside of the enthusiast community are rarely aware that the community exists, in my anecdotal experience when I tell people I am a theme park enthusiast I have to explain what it actually means, but when speaking to each other, we know what we're on about. This is something called a community of practise, which means that within a speech community, there is a dialect which outsiders are not likely to quite understand, at least not to the extent or as quickly as people within the community can understand it. For example, '2 trads with scregg are good' doesn't really mean a lot to someone who doesn't work in the kitchen I work in, and similarly, a non-enthusiast typically doesn't know what a rollercoaster enthusiast or theme park enthusiast is, past the point of literal comprehension- yes obviously it means we're enthusiastic, but in what way? How? '2 trads with scregg are good' translates to '2 traditional breakfasts with scrambled egg instead of fried egg are fully made and ready to go, go take them away'. It is natural to shorten language within a community of practise becasuse it simply is faster and easier, and members of the community know from context what the other speakers are talking about, so the extra info is unecessary. We already shorten both phrases to simply enthusiast when talking to eachother, since we know we're not talking about any other kind of enthusiast, and the forbidden word is simply a furthering of that. This happens all the time, some great examples of this would be calling a vegetarian a 'veggie', or saying someone who is aggravated is 'aggy'.

People being so abrasive to language change is a pet peeve of mine. Language is constantly, constantly changing, and growing, and expanding, and that is not to say that is worsening. Languages are living things, and so they change as we change. Globalisation of language due to social media is unavoidable, and I don't think that's a bad thing, and thus I don't find 'an American came up with it' to be a legitimate gripe with this word, especially since this shortening of words isn't inherently an American English phenomenon.

If people have an issue with literally the phonetics of the word, as in the literal sounds in that order make you cringe for whatever reason, similarly to how people infamously dislike the word 'moist', then fair enough, everyone has certain words they dislike in that way. But further than that, Christ some of you need to get a grip. 'Rollercoaster enthusiast' or 'theme park enthusiast' are long, boring and sad little phrases, and I do wish whenever the community had first come about someone had come up with something more encapsulating and succinct, similarly to how, for example, Lady Gaga fans are called 'Little Monsters'. But for now, our equivalent is the silly little banned word that has gotten so many of you in a tizz.

Some people have mentioned in this thread how the community differs in varied parts of the internet, and from my experience of being on here vs being on enthusiast twitter, is that some of you folks are so much more miserable, and especially averse to change. It would be reasonable for me to argue that in fact some of you aren't particularly 'enthusiastic' at all.

Rant over, linguistics nerd out.
 
WickerwomanH said:
I constantly, constantly changing, and growing, and expanding, and that is not to say that is worsening. Languages are living things, and so they change as we change. Globalisation of language due to social media is unavoidable, and I don't think that's a bad thing, and thus I don't find 'an American came up with it' to be a legitimate gripe with this word, especially since this shortening of words isn't inherently an American English phenomenon.
Rant over, linguistics nerd out.
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It's like how some people hate the metric system because the French came up with it.
 
"People being so abrasive to language change".
Oh so well put there...
But to have the words physically removed from your reasonable, respectful, modest posts with no fair reason though...just simple mind policing of the lowest order.
Quite immoderate really, when you think of it...more extremist behaviour, like the actions of a tyrant or fascist dictator...
 
rob666 said:
"People being so abrasive to language change".
Oh so well put there...
But to have the words physically removed from your reasonable, respectful, modest posts with no fair reason though...just simple mind policing of the lowest order.
Quite immoderate really, when you think of it...more extremist behaviour, like the actions of a tyrant or fascist dictator...
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Hush now Robert or else you’re off to the gulag
 
Poisson said:
The wrath brought on poor @Thameslink Rail for circumventing the filter on here was brutal and cutting. He was reduced to nothing more than a shell of the man he was. @JAperson tried to be sarky and was eviscerated brutally as well. Hell hath no fury like our overlady on a rampage.
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Put it this way @zeock you don't annoy @Sazzle she is the boss (and if I don't say this then I am risking my account on here.....)
 
Why are you lot upset the word is banned? It's an awful word that really deserves to be removed from everybody's vocabulary.

Personally I dislike the way it lacks a hard consonance sound in the middle. A good word has a good structure to the make up of the word, it should be easy to say and not sound silly.

Veggie isn't even a word I normally use, it's not really good use of the English language to shorten words.

Aggy sounds like something a 5 year old would say trying to say egg. Perhaps we should all speak like 5 years olds if it means we can use those words again.

@rob666 I'd say the T word is one of the most offensive terms I've heard, if you're so against censorship do you regularly use the N word or is that a level of censorship you're happy with?
 
No I don't use the N word.
Amusingly, my mate from East Angular, his dad was very rural, and the term **** was just an idiot, and not a foul term at all.
My favourite rudie is when my mature librarian longtime mate in Preston drops the C bomb in the pub.
I chuckle every last time.
I think your language moderation changes when you breed, we didn't, so remain foulmouthed fuckers.
I was also the youngest of five sweary marys, so I didn't really stand a ******* chance.
My H&S (retired) punter hadn't heard that "retard" was now very offensive either, so I wasn't alone!
Still don't understand the foozie hate, its only a word, abbreviated at each end, and warm, like boozy and woozy...and I'm sure there are more than a few boozy woozy foozies out there.
I wouldn't make such a fuss, but it is crusty snow frosty out there, and I can't play out in the gardens...
 
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