"2. I understand you're not a native English speaker. When in doubt, err on the side of polite language. If you see something get censored by the board, that word is probably not considered polite in normal conversation amongst English speakers. Choose a synonym.
www.m-w.com is a good English language reference and has a thesaurus."
Sorry.
That kind of indicates that maybe you cannot fluently speak a language foreign to you. You learn languages by phrases and lines of thought. If you keep consulting thessurus, then you have not learneds them at all.
I do not mean that I err. I mean that I have, please forgive, learned unclean english. And I have not learned to see "inappropriateness" in all the phrases I might use. This aside from those that might also have thechnical meaning like the b+ words when discussing of goddeses."
I will though try to keep in mind that if something is taken out then it may not be polite term. If used technically however, I do not get it.
JH
PS. Ok then Friga, Hera, Isis unlike any of the valar, are (according to enfin thessaurus and according to the afore mentioned graduations debate paper), old women, vixens, hags or missuses... and now no-one understood what they are.
[ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: bombur ]