Talk: Profanity

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I don't feel we really need an article defining obscene language, and I don't think the language in any of the films or episodes could really be considered obscene, anyway. -- Renegade54 23:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Delete. This is so far an orphaned, unformatted dictionary definition. It has some examples as well, but at least one of them I cannot even figure out. The term itself was never used in Star Trek, to my knowledge. We also already have an article on colorful metaphors. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 23:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

This has been heard in all of the star trek franchise. Riker is quoted as saying, "What the hell just happened ?!". In the movies, it is really heard. 205.240.146.116 23:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- That might be an argument for a "real world POV" article, but it still would be little more than a dictionary definition. See What Memory Alpha is not. The other problem is that what constitutes "obscene language" is subjective. I, and many others, do not consider "hell" to be "obscene". --OuroborosCobra ^talk 23:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  - It certainly doesn't meet a legal definition of obscenity. I'm not saying that there haven't been examples of mild epithets throughout Trek, it's just that they don't meet the definition of obscene. And I don't know that we really need a listing of all the episodes where someone says "hell" or "damn it" or whatever. -- Renegade54 23:42, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Profanity was referenced in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Perhaps move it there and rewrite? --From Andoria with Love 04:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Is anyone aware of the fact we have an article called colorful metaphor? --Alan del Beccio 04:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh... um, in that case either merge and/or delete. --From Andoria with Love 04:44, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

- Look up. I mentioned colorful metaphors at least 5 hours ago :P --OuroborosCobra ^talk [[Image:Klin

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 *Is anyone aware of the fact we have an article called [[colorful metaphor]]? --[[User:Gvsualan|Alan del Beccio]] 04:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 :*Oh... um, in that case either '''merge''' and/or '''delete'''. --[[User:Shran|From Andoria with Love]] 04:44, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
-**Look up. I mentioned [[colorful metaphor]]s at least 5 hours ago :P --[[User:OuroborosCobra|OuroborosCobra]] <sup>[[User Talk:OuroborosCobra|<span style="color:#00FF00;">talk</span>]]</sup> [[Image:Klingon Empire logo.png|18px]] 04:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
+**Look up. I mentioned [[colorful metaphor]]s at least 5 hours ago :P --[[User:OuroborosCobra|OuroborosCobra]] <sup>[[User Talk:OuroborosCobra|<span style="color:#00FF00;">talk</span>]]</sup> [[Image:Klin
-*** Which I wondered why another name was being suggested. --[[User:Gvsualan|Alan del Beccio]] 04:49, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
-**** Because I never pay attention to anything Cobra says. :P --[[User:Shran|From Andoria with Love]] 08:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
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