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[Crica]

i like using the word toon.

if you don't know what I am referring to when i use the word toon, I will happily define toon for you.

other then that, my toon, my choice to use whatever word I want to refer to it.

if you prefer to be offended at a word, be my guest.

i have better things to do with my time ... like play my toons!

/wave

[lackofwords]

if you prefer to be offended at a word, be my guest.

I don't understand why would anyone be offended.

Reminds me of one time where someone asked if I had a mule for FFXI. I said "sure, I have 3 mules" as in 3 additional content IDs under one PlayOnline account to hold my items from my main content ID. Little did I know "mule" he was referring to was an another full subscription PlayOnline account under a different PlayOnline account name. He was offended that I had to ask what he meant by "mule".

[Fensfield]

I don't understand why would anyone be offended.

Some feel it's offensive because 'toon is as in 'cartoon', and thus it's connotations are exaggeration, absurdity, and folly. People in my opinion have every right to feel offended when the characters they've created, put effort into, and imagined things around, are put on the same level as that, and are well within their rights to ask people not to refer to their creations in those terms. I myself have said to people in the past, 'Please, I don't like seeing Forra referred to as a 'toon. I feel it suggests he's somehow of less value, and makes me feel rather uncomfortable. Would you mind not using that word when you talk about him?'

I've spent the better part of my two and a half decades studying the blasted language, so of course I'm a bit sensitive to words' meanings as they apply to the things I care about.

That being said I also feel that's as far as those rights go. If people feel compelled to refer to their characters as 'toons, well, that's their lookout. It's also their lookout whether or not they acquiesce when a person asks politely they not refer to their creative construct using a term that person feels degrades it. But.. well, ignoring so specific and polite a request is a bit... jerk-ish, if you ask me.

So.. well, I have to admit, in this case I think, from my own logic here at least, Zenaku may not have been entirely justified in asking someone not to use the word in a general context; although I think anyone should be free to point out when something makes them uncomfortable and anyone tries to capitalise on that's just mean. But he asked politely, and explained his reasons, so really a similarly polite refusal's as appropriate as bowing to his asking, or so I think.