Talk:mosquito bite
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Smuconlaw in topic Word of the day: tasteless?
Word of the day: tasteless?[edit]
(Moved here from WT:FB)
Are we sure this is how we want to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month on the very first day..? Seems pretty tasteless and disrespectful. this unsigned comment by User:2016 47.187.176.16 18:47, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
- That is not how Word of the day works. It is not used to commemorate or honor certain days or months, and tasteless and disrespectful are irrelevant. Anyone can nominate a word, and each person has his own reasons for choosing a word. You could have nominated a different word if you had wanted to go to the trouble, but you didn't. —Stephen (Talk) 10:45, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- @OP, I see and understand your point (i.e. it's very nice of you to have thought of it :), but I agree with Stephen G. Brown: The entire month of October is already dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness. That designation alone is sufficient to commemorate it. Leasnam (talk) 18:38, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- Tasteless and disrespectful are necessarily matters of opinion. We're really just trying to raise awareness about unusual words. Those unusual words don't have to be 'nice' ones. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:48, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- Wiktionary:Word of the day/Nominations does say not to nominate "offensive words". DTLHS (talk) 18:54, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- For reference, the relevant passage says:
- No offensive words — Please avoid profanity. A nominated word should not offend the average person, nor should it be something you would be embarrassed to use in front of your boss or your grandmother (or your boss's grandmother, for that matter). Wiktionary defines profane words in part so people know not to use them in polite company. WOTD nominations, on the other hand, should be words that people can safely use in everyday speech.
- This was a judgment call on my part. The term had been nominated for WOTD by @Dixtosa. It was clearly not a profanity, nor did I think it would offend the average person as it was more humorous than offensive. That being the case, I thought it would be appropriate to use the nomination to raise the importance of breast cancer awareness. — SMUconlaw (talk) 04:59, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
- For reference, the relevant passage says:
- Wiktionary:Word of the day/Nominations does say not to nominate "offensive words". DTLHS (talk) 18:54, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- Tasteless and disrespectful are necessarily matters of opinion. We're really just trying to raise awareness about unusual words. Those unusual words don't have to be 'nice' ones. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:48, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- @OP, I see and understand your point (i.e. it's very nice of you to have thought of it :), but I agree with Stephen G. Brown: The entire month of October is already dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness. That designation alone is sufficient to commemorate it. Leasnam (talk) 18:38, 2 October 2016 (UTC)