On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 13:00:54 -0400, "Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > But since orcs aren't supposed to be polite, I assumed this was > > deliberate. > > It was quite deliberate. When I reworked the SotBE prose, I spent > some time thinking up Orcish epithets for the other speaking peoples. > Human-worms, stinky-midgets, tree-shaggers -- they're *supposed* to > sound rude and obscene; that's the *point*! > > If "Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me" could be marketed as > PG-13 (and it was) then I think we're on pretty safe ground as regards > actual obscenity.
I didn't think the project would get in trouble for using that term. I thought it was close to the edge of the project guidelines. In the past I had seen comments that text within Wesnoth was supposed to be somewhat restrained. (For example: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7324) Since a lot of our developers are not native English speakers I thought that this reference may have gone unnoticed. So I wasn't asking for it to be changed as much as people to conciously decide whether or not it was inline with the project's guidelines. _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
