Talk:Derpy/@comment-76.122.221.138-20120305094812/@comment-76.122.221.138-20120309080338

The point is, the word 'Derp' is not an actual part of the English lexicon at this time. The word is, at this time, purely a 'slang' term, and as such, it often has multiple, usualy hardly related meanings. Personaly, I had never heard it used to mean 'retarded' before all this happened. Let's use another slang word to make an example. We'll use 'jib' as the stand-in slang word. Let's assume that 'jib' usualy refers to the end of someone's beard. I see a friend on the street, I say 'nice jib' and he understands that I like his beard. I see someone else with a beard and I say 'nice jib' and he punches me. He thought that 'jib' refered to, well, something below the belt, rather than his beard. I've got no idea why I was just punched, and the guy has no idea I intended to complement him.

Now let's use the word in question. I accidentanly erased the flash objects for next weeks episode, and I say I 'derped'. Then a friend asks me why I was fired, and I tell them it was cause I 'derped'. So now they dont want to talk to me cause I apparently hate disabled people. I took 'derp' to mean a mess up or accident, while they took 'derp' to mean retarded or disabled. It's all a case of someone assumeing a word means one thing, when it's ment to mean something diffirent. The other word for a mule works the same way, and I hope you understand what sort of issues that can cause.

And even that aside, if someone wants to, they can find a whole lot more in the show to be offended by. For example, has anyone ever stopped to consider the fact that Celestia is a pure white ruler? Not only that, but the villian for the first two episodes was a dark blue, almost black color? Point being, if someone wants to be offended by something, they're going to find a way to be offended by it, there's no stopping that. There comes a point where, you just have to realize that all you can do is make yourself happy with something, and hope others are happy with it aswell. Like the old proverb says, 'He who tries to please everyone, pleases no one'.