Jun
5
Resembling a grape
Written by Erica. Filed Under scrabulous
U´ve`ous
adjective
Resembling a grape.
I played this word in a game of Scrabulous yesterday. Like many of my games, I was playing against a random opponent matched through the “host game” function. I know it’s a weird word, but when you’re a Scrabulous fanatic like me you pick up interesting words along the way - words like jarl and ixia. And uveous.
Yesterday, however, I got an interesting - and unexpected - reaction after playing the word uveous.
“What the hell does that mean?” Huh. Not sure exactly how to interpret her tone, I tried to respond as neutrally as possible.
“It means resembling a grape. also, please don’t swear.” Dude, I am so polite.
“Who swore? SURELY YOU DON’T MEAN THE WORLD HELL” What the…?
“Well, I guess it was more your bitchy tone that bugged me. But yeah, I meant the word hell.” OK, maybe I crossed a line here. But seriously, what’s this chick’s problem?
“Oh, now I’m a bitch. That’s nice.” umm…didn’t call you that!
Our conversation continued on for the rest of the game and I must say, I found it pretty funny. By the end, she basically accused me of being uptight and anal (two things I am most definitely not!) and continually accused me of calling her a bitch (I didn’t call her this - I only made the comment regarding the bitchy tone. Big difference, right???). She continually insisted that ‘hell’ was not a swear word. I think that it is a matter of opinion, but I was offended by the way she used the word as a profanity. Part of her argument was that “clergymen use the word hell” - therefore it is not a swear word. Does this mean that any word a priest, pastor, deacon, etcetc uses is automatically not a swear word?
I was glad when the game was over.
It is way to easy to misinterpret what others are saying online, especially when you are conversing with someone from a different culture and continent (my opponent was from the UK).
Have you ever been misinterpreted online?
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I always min-interpret things on the internet. I always read comments thinking that people are out to get me.
For example our latest convo on facebook:
you said
“fine, whatever”
And I read this as - I’m mad at you, don’t agree with what you said and don’t want to talk to you anymore and will shrug you off with a “fine, whatever”
Something like that.
Yeah but did you WIN?? You uptight little so and so!
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When you’re left with three I’s at the end…it gets a lil hard.
Kate, I meant ‘fine whatever’ as in that’s fine, post it whenever you have the time! but I knew you would interpret it otherwise… :p
I’m always scared my sarcasm won’t be understood online, and I will look like a huge jerk. Even now, people often miss when I’m kidding on my blog.
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