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[KatyMac]

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Never had that before

& all I said was that the files were great big buggers

haha, i don't class bugger as a swear word but when you hear your 3 year old repeat it does definately sounds wrong.

I would have said slang or a colloquialism rather than swearing

I suppose if someone has complained and found it offensive, then it is.

I'd agree if someone had complained

Except the moderator said it 'wasn't acceptable' rather than someone complaining

Describing books as big buggers seems so inoffensive to me

But it's not worth getting hung up on

I just thought it funny

I suppose if you analyse the phrase, you are making negative comparisons about a sexual act where it should be irrelevant.

it's just because 'bugger' is listed as a banned word, so it flagged, that's all. i was interviewing people who identify as transgender, and i couldn't use my uni e-mail to contact participants because it kept flagging inappropriate keywords and refusing to send. it's quite difficult to discuss gender without using the word 'sex' occasionally.

although 'bugger' is one of those terms i loathe.

Oh odd of them

Do you object to it being used to describe files so large I can't pick them up due to arthritis?

nah. and i do use it - it's only when i think about it, it makes me go 'yuk'.
i think it's quite an aggressive word in isolation.

but uni's do block some fairly innocuous words in the name of propriety...