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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 StavrosK »

agustif wrote: post #85
StavrosK wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't doubt that this happens, but I think so much less of someone that would go into my Twitter and assign a negative ranking to each swearword in an effort to compile a metric of "me", that I wouldn't want to do business with them. In that regard, adding more motherfucking swearwords in my bullshit comments serves as a great fucking way to deter any asshole cunt that thinks such metrics are a good goddamn idea. D…

https://gfda.co/

Haha, that's funny, though at times it feels like they're just adding the word "fucking" to phrases.

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Post by Freak_NL »

bshimmin wrote: post #79
searchableguy wrote: post #72

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While I am not for any kind of censorship, if someone doesn't know swear words, would they be able to use them? Is swearing orthogonal to human nature? I had known few kids who didn't know what swearing was and they never did anything similar to swearing. Is there value in swearing? If not, what's the argument for letting kids learn about it? It's an interesting thought. Would limiting the vocabulary lead to people e…

You're looking for the wonderful-sounding "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", which is a great thing to trot out at dinner parties (if those ever become a thing again).

I guess I can see the added value of swearing in Klingon — kind of the reverse of bowdlerization.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by StavrosK »

thrwyoilarticle wrote: post #88
StavrosK wrote: post #38

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Isn't that spelled "shiitake"?

It's spelled 椎茸. There may also be a collection of Latin letters that are pronounced similarly.

> https://www.stavros.io/posts/fastapi-with-django/

Commonly referred to as "transliteration", and the transliteration is spelled "shiitake".

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by hiccuphippo »

jawns wrote: post #83
IgorPartola wrote: post #66

As a way to show off the capability of ligatures, more power to them. As an effort to censor, why in the ever loving fuck nuggets would you ever actually do that? I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. We felt that this wa…

Around middle school, I decided that I would stop using swear words, because it seemed like getting myself in trouble by letting one slip out at an inappropriate time was more of a bother than just avoiding them and coming up with more inventive ways to express myself. Refraining from curse words has been part of my character ever since, and just about everybody who knows me knows that I don't swear. And you know wha…

ESL here. At school one teacher told us using swear words only show your lack of knowledge for better words. I took that to heart and the very few times I've used them, I really had no other option. However I've noticed swear words come more easily to me in English and don't feel as harsh as when I hear them in Spanish. I wonder if it's my lack of vocabulary.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by fit2rule »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #59

Many many years ago I wrote a sign up form (an app now I suppose) for a UK ISP, and we, I cannot remember who wanted the feature, write a simple blacklist of words that users should not be allowed to put in their addresses, and of course we whitelisted Scunthorpe (as well as several other rude placenames in the UK post office address file) Just weird how the same things come round and round.

I cut my teeth as a junior dev in the 80's writing soundex filters for the same purpose, which was repurposed to do auto correction of street names after I got it working on swear words... always amuses me to see so much effort put into such things even still today (as I struggle with autocorrect while typing one-handed due to a broken arm...)

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Post by jstanley »

flurdy wrote: post #86

I once worked for an online game aimed at children. With some limited messaging and a forum, we needed to automatically filter swearing especially when it started to reach millions of users. The initial limited English only blacklists were useless. Kids are creative and terrible. So we replaced with big processes of failover with several external swearword filtering services. Costly... But kids are creative..., they…

As soon as you start trying to automatically filter out messages you don't want, you enter an arms race that you're not going to win.

Surely a better solution is to provide the players with a way to votekick abusive users, and leave it at that?

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