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ass, however is not
Why would you censor "donkey"?
Because gentlemen prefer ass.
Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
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#152As 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…
> Words are words and censoring “bad” words is silly. You can’t censor meaning. “Fk you” is just as powerful a statement as “fuck you”. Especially if it censors words like “associating” or “Cummings” or “arsenal”. This is just fodder for the unnecessary censorship memes.
One of my childhood friends kept calling his brother names. He was told off and told he couldn't do that any more... He promptly changed to call his brother by the name of cheeses.
His brother certainly instantly recognized that "gouda" etc. was just as clearly an insult as any of the other things he had been called, and got just as angry.
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#153clbuttic mistake ahoy!
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#154This might actually be a good way to make people self -censor. When a word suddenly blacks out they will wonder what they have triggered and maybe think twice before sending it because either they know they’ve crossed a line or it’s dubious the software will accept their text as written. Just like you showing people their ip addresses has proven a significant deterrent for attempting credit card fraud, masking out the undesired language might have the same effect. the beauty of doing it in. The font is its a mechanism nobody expects, someone is going to waste a lot of time figuring out how it works. I don’t see a GitHub project, I’m wondering if the list of words can be expanded to include non-English languages.
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#155Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
#156It's a cute idea, but it took me all of 5 seconds to find a way to do an end-run around Scunthorpe Sans's fuckcked up censorship. I've never really understood why people think that misspelling "fuck" as "f*ck" suddenly makes is socially acceptable.
I'm not expressing an opinion on the practice, but in case a child who doesn't know the word reads it? I can remember as a child reading a story in a UK tabloid newspaper that quoted (Neil Kinnock, I think) with some asterisks in some of the words, and not fully understanding.
It’s just an alternate spelling. It means the same thing, and children will still learn the word if it is written this way.
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#157Doesn't censor "Karen"
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I've heard this argument before (and I tend to agree with it), but here's a counter-point I heard recently and appreciated: Eloquence and good vocabulary are important, but there is a time and place for something vulgar and basic. Just like there's a time and place for a rapier and there's also a time and place for a folding chair or a pool cue.
I don't think vulgar goes along with basic, the four letter, Germanic versions of fornicate and defecate have a whole range of varied, nuanced, often contradictory meanings that capture the irreducible complexity of lived experience.
The Latin derived versions just make everything so bloodless, so focused on one particular aspect of the concept. They really are the simple words, even if they have more letters.
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#159Did not censor nigger
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#160I'm Richard and cannot even type my own nickname
Yeah these efforts always fall flat. Buttbuttination is my favorite example.
Yes, that's a clbuttic.