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I guess hell, crap, damn, and suck count as cussing. Anyone wanna take bets on how high Chess Loser would score? Actually I put his URL in. Only 56.8% There must be some really raunchy sites that have taken the test. I guess chess bloggers are a pretty tame bunch in comparison to the rest of internet world.
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I score 0%. This surprises me no little, considering the amount of scorn and bile I heap on some of my games.
"Around 1.5% of the pages on your website contain cussing.This is 99% LESS than other websites who took this test."
Sweet! But I wonder where that 1.5% came from. Perhaps dagnabbit or darn count as mild expletives? Or maybe it's just for *linking* to chessloser's site... ;)
Ed: Dr. Brady will be happy to know that. :-)
Like: Must be the linking to CL. :-)
Somehow when chessloser cusses it doesn't come off like he is cussing. He has a gift!
That english is not my native language certainly has something to do with it. It is difficult to estimate how offensive an expression is in another language. To be safe I don't use it. On the other hand, I can't imagine that my dutch writings would score much higher. My spoken language is another matter though.
I scored a 0% on the cuss-o-meter! I try and keep it clean due to the fact that my 9 and 6 year olds like to read what I have written.
Maybe they will lose interest and I will be able to kick it up a notch! For now I guess I will be stuck with using !$*@! to express myself that way. LOL
I scored 8,3% and english isn't my first language either. Like Tempo i speak dutch. So i blame all the blogs i link to to give me such a high cuss level. Darn you all! :-)
Tempo, wil je zeggen dat je anders schrijft dan spreekt?
Polly: I'm not sure Dr. Brady cares what my personal blog looks like. The Marshall's blog (http://marshallchessclub.blogspot.com) is easy to keep clean--I don't have to post my own games on it.
Chesstiger,
sure. Since speaking is much faster than writing there is less time for self-censorship. Especially when I get emotionally agitated I tend to curse. A habit I have adopted in military service.
I get emotionally agitated once or twice a year. Especially contact with civil servants tends to rise my blood pressure.
Interesting...I would tend to agree with Tommyg that Chessloser's blog ( although ripe with expletives ) tends to come across as evocative language as opposed to plain "cussin" ( again a delightfully old-fashioned word, which somehow reduces its impact).
Just like Temposchlucker, I tend to edit my written words compared to my spoken ( admittedly to preserve English spellings & grammar as opposed to 'International' ones ) since the logical spelling of Dutch words can tend to interfere with my natutal English !
I also have to agree with him that Civil Servants ( particularly Dutch ones ) and also UK banks see my 'cusssin' factor rise significantly, albeit internally, since verbally abusing such people has the opposite effect to that intended :)
I would also think that the "Cuss-o-meter", just from its name, is aimed squarely at English-language-based sites.
I'm not sure that a web-based Dutch equivalent exists, but since I have to see the "anti-swearing" posters most days at Amsterdam Centraal (http://www.bondtegenvloeken.nl/ ), I think that the Netherlands is fairly-well covered !
ZP
Yes Chess Loser does have a way with words that makes the profanity blend in, and is actually pretty funny.
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