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Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

curuinor wrote: post #7

It 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/

It's not really a swear....

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by IanCal »

curuinor wrote: post #7

It 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/

It's not intended for serious use.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by curuinor »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #11
curuinor wrote: post #7

It 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/

It's not really a swear....

I mean, if you pulled it out on a discussion not about swear words or something like that in civilized society, civility would go out the window (because you would've tossed it out the window), so it seems _more_ of a swear word to me in modern times than the ordinary fuck, shit, etc

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by tsukurimashou »

curuinor wrote: post #7

It 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/

did you call the internet police?

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by mahathu »

UncleSlacky wrote: post #16
arijun wrote: post #8

This is very cute! But I wonder why the creator decided to special case of Scunthorpe and not more common terms like peacock

Probably because the problem is named after it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

"In February 2004 in Scotland, Craig Cockburn reported that he was unable to use his surname (pronounced "Coburn") with Hotmail. Separately he had problems with his workplace email because his job title, software specialist, contained the substring Cialis, an erectile dysfunction medication commonly included in spam e-mails." Now that's just bad luck. It could've happened to any of us!
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