No, it is not. The Goethe quote gets misused as an excuse to be vulgar and rude. It's cultured if you're at least close to the original phrase. Nobody hears "ach leck mich doch" and thinks: Ah, Goethe!
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Newcomer / Intro Will i be blocked from Frontier by naming my ship with following funny words ... ?
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P.S. don't get me wrong. I'm not a snowflake. I'll curse like an old sailor if it's appropriate. Be rude and curse all you want, but own up to it instead of trying to hide it behind some pseudo-intellectual "it's Goethe" nonsense. Because it isn't.
Shrugs then. Everybody sees things their own way.
Sense of humor is not given to everyone and sore persons tend to be offended. However, i name my ships as i like and have to live with the fact, that censorship is common sense.
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Hi, me again. A bit aggy, i know.
I am not experienced in PvP yet, so maybe better naming my ship
instead of
LOL
Will this one be censored?
I am not experienced in PvP yet, so maybe better naming my ship
"Besoffene Unschuld" (Drunken Innocence)
"Ach leck mich doch!!"
Will this one be censored?
You might try posting something using your chosen ship names in the German language section of the forums and see if the forum software will let them through which might be an indication what they will allow in game though I suspect the English language forums might be more stringent than the game filters.
Indeed, sense of humour is decreasing in popularity. At least from our country's history with censorship we know that the stricter it gets, the stronger humour and sarcasm are growing again. It just goes back and forth through the generations.
How about naming your ship "Götz von Berlichingen". Those who know or who are interested in looking such stuff up for learning will get what you mean and appreciate it. The rest won't bother anyway, even if they detect the pattern of a nobleman's name at all. If your motivation really was making it a retort to gankers, it would be inefficient since only a fraction of players knows the language. Heck, I almost regret not having chosen him for my avatar name. This society deserves an army of them.
How about naming your ship "Götz von Berlichingen". Those who know or who are interested in looking such stuff up for learning will get what you mean and appreciate it. The rest won't bother anyway, even if they detect the pattern of a nobleman's name at all. If your motivation really was making it a retort to gankers, it would be inefficient since only a fraction of players knows the language. Heck, I almost regret not having chosen him for my avatar name. This society deserves an army of them.
Götz von Berlichingen requires good skills in PvP, otherwise i blame myself. I also thought of "Imperial Hammer", because of two of it in my slots, which definetly will not be censored. But imagine i would be killed by a ship named Rookie17. I would take the blame naming my ship "Imperial Hammer". Same goes to "Du doch nicht !!", the slogan of Ernst Udet on his Fokker D7. I think it is better choosing strong names only if i am at least good in PvP. "Du doch nicht !!" should be used by an ace in PvP.
source of pictures below see https://www.klueser.de/kit.php?index=1776&language=de
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I give my ships names that mostly mean something to me or that I like, not to send a message but then PvP is along way down my list of things to do in the game.
Udet’s slogan reminded me of an autobiography I read decades ago the now unknown author had been in the Royal Flying Corps and flew an SE5a which he named Schweinhund as a taunt or insult to his opponents in their own language, the SE5a had a liquid cooled engine behind a radiator with lovers that opened and closed to adjust cooling so he painted a picture of the Kaiser behind the louvres so he could flash it and hopefully distract his opponent.
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Some research has shown the book was Wind in the Wires by Duncan Grinnell-Milne and it seems to be available on Kindle so I might reaquaint myself later on.
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I thank you all commentators by creating this thread of theme - or theme of thread if otherwise. Thank you and good luck out there! 
There's a fleet carrier called "Proud to be Russian", I find that offensive.
What might be a quite good idea is naming your carrier "Put in Prison" then and send it beside the proud russian.
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