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[Clarkey]

What is it with people using the word r*pe when describing an attack, massing, raiding, farming etc?

This is a sick word to use, people that commit this act in RL are SCUM OF THE EARTH and it is atrocious how people commonly use this word to describe certain attacks in this game.

is it only me or do other people get this?

[Wolf359]

I agree. Perhaps they just don't know any better?

[avdk6]

Maybe it's something to do with a limited vocabulary? Or maybe maturity level? It isn't only in this game, people at my school use it to describe many things, and I don't see how it is an appropriate adjective, or even an adjective at all.

[Legendary Apophis]

When you learn another language, the first you will learn will be the rude words...
About the native english speakers...on the contrary...they have NO excuses!

[traprunner]

Rape is a very old word. Centuries ago villages were "raped and pillaged". Although I don't recall ever using it in SGW it does fit properly in a war game.

[Juliette]

What is it with people using the word r*pe when describing an attack, massing, raiding, farming etc?

Agreed.
It is detestable. Then again, most street language is detestable.. or should I say, the informal language of those, born after '73.

Great Caesar's Ghost.. the abysmal constructs launched at one's eardrums.. every once in a while, one thinks one should be a Puritan. Like our good friend Clarkey. (j/k, I applaud your goals and the way in which you seek to achieve them)

traprunner: That won't hold.. in that expression, those were the villagers being raped, and their possessions pillaged.
Besides, every now and then we need to cleanse our daily language from anachronisms that have been defiled by association. How about the generic Ubermensch, to drag an old skeleton out of the linguistic closet..

[generaloneill]

What is it with people using the word r*pe when describing an attack, massing, raiding, farming etc?

This is a sick word to use, people that commit this act in RL are SCUM OF THE EARTH and it is atrocious how people commonly use this word to describe certain attacks in this game.

is it only me or do other people get this?

depends on the context of the use of the word in a sentence.

[traprunner]

traprunner: That won't hold.. in that expression, those were the villagers being raped, and their possessions pillaged.

rape1 /reɪp/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[reyp] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, raped, rap·ing.
–noun
1. the unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.
2. any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
3. statutory rape.
4. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.
5. Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.
–verb (used with object)
6. to force to have sexual intercourse.
7. to plunder (a place); despoil.
8. to seize, take, or carry off by force.


Won't hold? Maybe you should look up the dictionary

[dresnov]

its still a bad word to use in agame that thousands of people from all over the world play as someone could get really offended by the word for various reasons

[Heisenberg]

Yeah, Thats What the dictionary says but, how many people in RL when they get attacked (without the rape we know) say that they have been raped?

i know this isnt real life, but still rape is a terrible word to use

i have to agree with Clarkey on this one, i think it shouldn't be used

Thanks
Shuggy123
King_n00b

[traprunner]

its still a bad word to use in agame that thousands of people from all over the world play as someone could get really offended by the word for various reasons

Then 'kill' should be removed too. Actually we should not use any words since they can all cause offence.

[Legendary Apophis]

I'm agreed with some people this is very offensive word.
Way more than the insults we see modded in these forums that I won't name because we all know what words they are...

[traprunner]

Yeah, Thats What the dictionary says but, how many people in RL when they get attacked (without the rape we know) say that they have been raped?

i know this isnt real life, but still rape is a terrible word to use

i have to agree with Clarkey on this one, i think it shouldn't be used

Thanks
Shuggy123
King_n00b

What rape do you know? Personally I know what it says in the dictionary. Just because one definition is used much more often than the rest does not mean that the rest are wrong.

[Clarkey]

What rape do you know? Personally I know what it says in the dictionary. Just because one definition is used much more often than the rest does not mean that the rest are wrong.

Why are you so comfortable using that word?

[Juliette]

Then 'kill' should be removed too. Actually we should not use any words since they can all cause offence.

I agree that it is ridiculous to censure everything..

As for the dictionary-reference: the point with plebeian street language is that it cannot be constrained in set definitions such as the ones you gave for "rape". Theoretically, you could draw up a percentage chart; which meaning is used more often. I think I know which will win..
Considering the majority of this forum is indeed sub-par in the use of English, secondary meaning can hardly be given the credit it would in a normal, English-speaking community. Or can it?

Do tell me.