--- title: Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Not once — over and over, like a broken doorbell. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» # Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes» Lesson 406 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 35 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/1/) — Not once — over and over, like a broken doorbell. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/2/) — Kai went hot all over and his fingers were already typing something worse back. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/3/) — Then he remembered his dad's four words: mute, block, report, tell. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/4/) — He muted the man (the silence was wonderful), blocked him, and his dad showed him the report button. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/5/) — The stranger was still shouting somewhere, but now he was shouting at nobody. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/6/) — Players who are nasty on purpose are called toxic, and toxic is catching. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/7/) — Leo got called «trash» by a teenager one evening, and ten minutes later he typed «trash» at a little kid on the other team. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/8/) — The kid left the game straight away. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/9/) — Leo stared at the empty space where the kid had been and felt awful — he had just handed the meanness on, like a hot potato. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/10/) — Theo nearly did the same: he typed a long nasty message to a player who beat him, read it back, deleted every word and sent «gg» instead. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/11/) — Swear words travel too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/12/) — Ollie's friend taught him a word he had heard in a game, and Ollie, feeling very grown-up, tried it out at Sunday dinner. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/13/) — His grandma dropped her fork, the gravy went everywhere and Ollie lost his pudding. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/14/) — A word that sounds cool in a headset sounds very different over roast potatoes. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/15/) — Noah had a better idea. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/16/) — When he loses, he shouts made-up words: «FISHCAKES!» and «BUBBLEBUM!» The whole squad copied him, then his mum started saying «fishcakes» when she burned the toast. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/17/) — Anger has to go somewhere, and a silly word carries it away without hurting anyone. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/18/) — And when Zara saw a player write racist things in chat, she reported him, though she was nervous it would not matter. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/19/) — Two days later a message came: the player had been banned. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/20/) — The others found their own ways. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/21/) — When her team called Priya «noob» for losing a fight, she said «I'm learning» and, when they kept on, left the team. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/22/) — Jayden's squad got a player who screamed every time they lost, so they left the lobby and played with their real friends instead. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/23/) — Ruby heard grown-up strangers swearing on voice chat and muted all voice chat in the settings. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/24/) — And when Mia's mum overheard Mia's friends swearing, Mia asked them to keep it clean in her games, and they did. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/25/) — A toxic player is someone who is nasty to other players on purpose. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/26/) — Mute, block, report and tell a grown-up are the four tools against a nasty player. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/27/) — Muting someone means you stop hearing them; it does not tell them anything. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/28/) — Reports are read by the game company, and players can be banned because of them. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/29/) — Copying a mean player spreads the meanness to someone new. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/30/) — Reading a message again before sending gives you a last chance to change your mind. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/31/) — Words picked up from games are often not words you can use at home or at school. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/32/) — Grown-up strangers on voice chat may swear, and you can turn voice chat off or set it to friends only. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/33/) — Insults say more about the person typing them than about the person they are aimed at. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/34/) — A silly made-up word can let out anger without hurting anyone. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/406-toxic-players-and-swearing/35/) — You can ask your friends to keep the language clean when you are playing together. - ← previous: [Teams and voice chat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/) - next →: [Rage-quitting, ranked games and the calm jar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)