Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
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#2Lightwater in Surrey is still censored.
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#3Hehe, who remembers Mary Whitehouse these days?
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#4Lightwater in Surrey is still censored.
That one took me a few seconds . . . ;)
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#5The author links to a Wikipedia article, which lists many common “censoring” mistakes, to show they have overcome one of those, but all others I’ve tried from the article are indeed incorrectly “censored”.
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#6The author links to a Wikipedia article, which lists many common “censoring” mistakes, to show they have overcome one of those, but all others I’ve tried from the article are indeed incorrectly “censored”.
No they are saying they have explicitly deal with one and only one special case, which is also the name of the problem and the name of the font.
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#7It doesn't seem to censor the n-word. I would think it's pretty important to censor the n-word
checked, failed to censor: n-word every word in this comic (nsfw for offensive words) https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-offenders/
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#8This is very cute! But I wonder why the creator decided to special case of Scunthorpe and not more common terms like peacock
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#9I love this.
I particularly like that arsenal is censored to a___nal.
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#10The author links to a Wikipedia article, which lists many common “censoring” mistakes, to show they have overcome one of those, but all others I’ve tried from the article are indeed incorrectly “censored”.
For example, the word "balls" have many uses that should not be censored, yet it is always expurgated.