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Posted by: Excelsis.6735

Excelsis.6735

I always thought this particular word was a derogatory term for asians and nothing else.

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Posted by: Lance Coolee.9480

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Holy cow, yea, can we get that looked at by the content writers?

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Posted by: Nyaochan.1756

Nyaochan.1756

I think they may have actually meant to type “goons”. There are quite a few typos in the NPC dialogs…perhaps they need to be reported so they can fix them (or not, since it’s a relatively minor issue).

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Posted by: Xia.3485

Xia.3485

OMG lol … watch it turn to kitten in the next patch haha

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Posted by: EnaiSiaion.8072

EnaiSiaion.8072

I think they may have actually meant to type “goons”.

The letters aren’t close. They must have been angry with some Chinese colleague while typing up the quest description.

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Posted by: Licht.5168

Licht.5168

Well, according to dictionary.com, the word can also be used to mean “anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.”, though I do agree that the word may need to be changed.

Also, the word is changed to kitten on the forum, hence I didn’t post a direct link, in case it ruined the link itself.

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“Quaggan’s a piwate! Yarr!” – “Pirate”

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Posted by: Qelris.6901

Qelris.6901

I think they may have actually meant to type “goons”.

The letters aren’t close. They must have been angry with some Chinese colleague while typing up the quest description.

People can make typo even if the letters aren’t next to each other.

I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.

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Posted by: Koolthulu.9682

Koolthulu.9682

3 day ban for Anet.

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Posted by: SausageStorm.4293

SausageStorm.4293

Well TIL what kitten meant.

Lol it’s even censored here.

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Posted by: Swagman.9013

Swagman.9013

Well I would agree that it was probably meant to be goon, but it can also mean the same thing like slime.

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Posted by: Faction.4013

Faction.4013

3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kitten

Possibility….but still, most likely just a typo. Hopefully this isn’t going to turn into a racism thing…if so, the area just outside of Undercity back in the early days of WoW would’ve had Jesse Jackson protesting.

Lets just say questionable use of trees and corpses. EVERYWHERE.

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Posted by: Licht.5168

Licht.5168

3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kitten

Possibility….but still, most likely just a typo. Hopefully this isn’t going to turn into a racism thing…if so, the area just outside of Undercity back in the early days of WoW would’ve had Jesse Jackson protesting.

Lets just say questionable use of trees and corpses. EVERYWHERE.

AS I said, the word is censored by the forums, so the link will send you to kitten.

Xarinn – Warrior L80 – 400AS/400WS
Sanctum of Rall
“Quaggan’s a piwate! Yarr!” – “Pirate”

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Posted by: ituhata.6830

ituhata.6830

I think they may have actually meant to type “goons”.

The letters aren’t close. They must have been angry with some Chinese colleague while typing up the quest description.

Check your qwerty keyboard. k & n are literally next door neighbors.

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Posted by: Faction.4013

Faction.4013

3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kitten

Possibility….but still, most likely just a typo. Hopefully this isn’t going to turn into a racism thing…if so, the area just outside of Undercity back in the early days of WoW would’ve had Jesse Jackson protesting.

Lets just say questionable use of trees and corpses. EVERYWHERE.

AS I said, the word is censored by the forums, so the link will send you to kitten.

GAH! Just noticed that….crap!

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Posted by: SausageStorm.4293

SausageStorm.4293

I think they may have actually meant to type “goons”.

The letters aren’t close. They must have been angry with some Chinese colleague while typing up the quest description.

Check your qwerty keyboard. k & n are literally next door neighbors.

J I L M are next door, N is near but rubbing up aganist K.

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Posted by: Matthew Kline.8420

Matthew Kline.8420

I’m sure it was a typo. They will most likely spot it and patch it at some point. Don’t want to stir the pot of racial slurs…

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Posted by: Nyaochan.1756

Nyaochan.1756

I think they may have actually meant to type “goons”.

The letters aren’t close. They must have been angry with some Chinese colleague while typing up the quest description.

Check your qwerty keyboard. k & n are literally next door neighbors.

J I L M are next door, N is near but rubbing up aganist K.

Perhaps they person is just a bad typist. Typos happen…it’s a more reasonable explanation than jumping to a conclusion that someone went out of their way to put a racist term in.

Goon is more in context anyways.

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Posted by: ituhata.6830

ituhata.6830

Eh, JNKM are as near to one another as IJOK and I’ll give you a guess as to how my cat named herself Kijo.

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Posted by: SausageStorm.4293

SausageStorm.4293

It’d be funny if whoever wrote it didn’t even know it was a word and was just trying to think up a word that sounded cute and quaggan-y

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Posted by: Leiloni.7951

Leiloni.7951

I have to say I’ve never heard of that word before.

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Posted by: Untouch.2541

Untouch.2541

Yeah, I saw this a while ago, I think they meant cooks.

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Posted by: Apakal.5718

Apakal.5718

“I have to say I’ve never heard of that word before.”

Watch more Vietnam films.

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Posted by: LeoDeSol.7604

LeoDeSol.7604

Yeah, I saw this a while ago, I think they meant cooks.

You beat me too it! At first I thought goons, then when looking at what he was saying, cooks is what popped into mind.

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Posted by: Calavera.1086

Calavera.1086

I have to say I’ve never heard of that word before.

same here

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Posted by: bwillb.2165

bwillb.2165

kitten (plural kittens)
(informal) Grime or mud.

I’m sure it’ll change to kittens meaning grime or mud

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Posted by: Corian.4068

Corian.4068

Wow, nice.

Bad quaggan is bad. Foo!

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Posted by: Tlu.4269

Tlu.4269

It’d be funny if whoever wrote it didn’t even know it was a word and was just trying to think up a word that sounded cute and quaggan-y

I can see that happening.

And that is a scientific fact!

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Posted by: DJPenguin.6945

DJPenguin.6945

Inquest are Asura. Asura is the smartest race. Stereotypically, Asians are the smartest IRL. Conclusion: racist typist.

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Posted by: UKNightWatch.5742

UKNightWatch.5742

3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kitten

Possibility….but still, most likely just a typo. Hopefully this isn’t going to turn into a racism thing…if so, the area just outside of Undercity back in the early days of WoW would’ve had Jesse Jackson protesting.

Lets just say questionable use of trees and corpses. EVERYWHERE.

AS I said, the word is censored by the forums, so the link will send you to kitten.

GAH! Just noticed that….kitten!

Fecal matter removed seeing as the filter did not remove it!

Of course, I just kidding.

The thing is, many words have different meanings and some of the meanings could be construed as a worthy reason for filtering or censure.

Some words such as the one I jokingly ‘kittened’ can be seen by many as not offencive, by others as mildly offencive or as maybe not offencive but vulgar all the same!

And while we’re at it, ‘offencive’, ‘centre’, ‘honour’ and ‘armour’ are all correctly spelled* thank you very much forum spell checker. (I know its all about the words being spelled differently in different versions of the same language).

On a more serious note, the word in question in that screen shot should be altered so as to ensure no offence is present (I’m sure non was intended though).

  • ‘spelt’ if you must!
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Posted by: mulch.2586

mulch.2586

Have you read some of the developer’s blogs? A number of them must have taken composition pass-fail.

Don’t be overly offended, just file a bug report so they can get it fixed.

Kudos for actually reading NPC chatter!

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Posted by: Leiloni.7951

Leiloni.7951

3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kitten

Possibility….but still, most likely just a typo. Hopefully this isn’t going to turn into a racism thing…if so, the area just outside of Undercity back in the early days of WoW would’ve had Jesse Jackson protesting.

Lets just say questionable use of trees and corpses. EVERYWHERE.

AS I said, the word is censored by the forums, so the link will send you to kitten.

GAH! Just noticed that….kitten!

Fecal matter removed seeing as the filter did not remove it!

Of course, I just kidding.

The thing is, many words have different meanings and some of the meanings could be construed as a worthy reason for filtering or censure.

Some words such as the one I jokingly ‘kittened’ can be seen by many as not offencive, by others as mildly offencive or as maybe not offencive but vulgar all the same!

And while we’re at it, ‘offencive’, ‘centre’, ‘honour’ and ‘armour’ are all correctly spelled* thank you very much forum spell checker. (I know its all about the words being spelled differently in different versions of the same language).

On a more serious note, the word in question in that screen shot should be altered so as to ensure no offence is present (I’m sure non was intended though).

  • ‘spelt’ if you must!

You guys type it “offencive” and “offence”? That is so weird to me lol.

Sidenote: You can right click in the text box and under where “Check Spelling” is checked off there is a “Languages” button. You should be able to change it to your own dictionary language there.

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

If you don’t read NPC chatter you’re missing out on a lot of fun things.

Including people who almost sound like they’re going to offer a quest then, breaking the laws of RPG physics (or narrativium) decide they can do it themselves!

Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kitten

Possibility….but still, most likely just a typo. Hopefully this isn’t going to turn into a racism thing…if so, the area just outside of Undercity back in the early days of WoW would’ve had Jesse Jackson protesting.

Lets just say questionable use of trees and corpses. EVERYWHERE.

AS I said, the word is censored by the forums, so the link will send you to kitten.

GAH! Just noticed that….kitten!

Fecal matter removed seeing as the filter did not remove it!

Of course, I just kidding.

The thing is, many words have different meanings and some of the meanings could be construed as a worthy reason for filtering or censure.

Some words such as the one I jokingly ‘kittened’ can be seen by many as not offencive, by others as mildly offencive or as maybe not offencive but vulgar all the same!

And while we’re at it, ‘offencive’, ‘centre’, ‘honour’ and ‘armour’ are all correctly spelled* thank you very much forum spell checker. (I know its all about the words being spelled differently in different versions of the same language).

On a more serious note, the word in question in that screen shot should be altered so as to ensure no offence is present (I’m sure non was intended though).

  • ‘spelt’ if you must!

You guys type it “offencive” and “offence”? That is so weird to me lol.

Sidenote: You can right click in the text box and under where “Check Spelling” is checked off there is a “Languages” button. You should be able to change it to your own dictionary language there.

I’m dyslexic so don’t take my word for it but I always thought it was ‘offensive’ and ‘offence’. No idea why it would be different, other than it suits the pronounciation and because English is a rediculous language.

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“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”

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Posted by: UKNightWatch.5742

UKNightWatch.5742

I’ll keep the spellchecker tip in mind – ta!

It really does not matter which version of spelling we use – so long as we understand each other.

Any way, back on track! I just looked up the offending word and think it should be changed all the more.

Edit! Yes English is a ridiculous language. I love it all the same.

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Posted by: wookie slayer.4259

wookie slayer.4259

HAHAHA, looks so cute but at heart hes a racist kitten

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Posted by: Jason King.2647

Jason King.2647

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Thank you for bringing this to our attention, everyone! While I don’t doubt that this was a typo, it’s certainly a serious one that we’ll be working to correct ASAP. In the meantime, I’m closing this thread. Thanks again!

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