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Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by klyrs »

echelon wrote: post #242
jawns wrote: post #83

Earlier 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 love and appreciate swear words. They're incredibly important as an act of protest and defiance against the prudes and the cultural censors. The eventual normalization of swear words will show that we have won the battle.

Once a word is normalized, speaking it is no longer cussing. ;)

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Post by int_19h »

fernandotakai wrote: post #125
hiccuphippo wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

cursing in english, for me at least, doesn't feel... real (compared to my native language). in english, i swear like a pirate while on my native language, i try not to do it.

Same thing here. I think the difference is whether the swear words are ingrained as part of "absorbing" the language as a child, as opposed to learning it "properly" as an adult. Basically, whether you only understand their meaning rationally, or it's a deeply ingrained taboo.

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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…

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Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by askvictor »

lisper wrote: post #113

It'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 a little impressed that it still works even if you add some zero-width spaces in the middle of a swear word. People will work around whatever restrictions you put in place; this is just for fun :)

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Post by mirimir »

m463 wrote: post #247
mirimir wrote: post #239

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I liked "frack" and derivatives in BSG2.

I think a very creative movie was actually Johnny Dangerously Farghin' ice hole.

OK, I had to look at IMDb:

> Roman Moroni: I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.

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Post by saagarjha »

_fat_santa wrote: post #137
fernandotakai wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cursing in english, for me at least, doesn't feel... real (compared to my native language). in english, i swear like a pirate while on my native language, i try not to do it.

I'm Russian, though I moved to the US at age 5 so English is my 'native' language, even though it's technically not. I see this on both sides. I find American curse words harsher than Russian ones, but my parents are the opposite. I can drop a "fuck" and no one really minds, drop a "suka" (roughly equates to "bitch" in Russian), my parents will loose their minds.

I’m sure my parents would do the same if I dropped one in English, even though they are not native English speakers.

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Post by pjbster »

dylan604 wrote: post #119
IanCal wrote: post #9

I love this. I particularly like that arsenal is censored to a___nal.

well, technically, arsenal are shit. so, transitively, it make sense. I miss my footy!!!!

Ah, now if you want to bring tribalism into this, here's the obligatory joke:

What are the only 3 English football clubs with swear words in their names?

1. Scunthorpe United, 2. Arsenal, 3. F*ing Man United!

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by azernik »

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…

Given the reference to the Scunthorpe Problem in the font's very name, it's definitely not seriously pushing this kind of censorship.

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Post by mikekchar »

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…

Now imagine that you did use one of those swear words. Imagine the attention you would garner. People would know that something is dreadfully wrong.

My high school English teacher taught that all words can be used either skillfully or unskillfully -- swear words included. Knowing when to use the word and when not to use the word is part of having proficiency in the language.

Of course, trying to arrange your life so that you don't have to use that particular proficiency does seem like something good to aim for ;-)

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by saagarjha »

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…

I’ve chosen to give up profanity online, and it’s generally not a huge problem but I run into issues occasionally. I need to be creative when quoting people sometimes as I try to ship around their cursing. Certain phrases just lack i the right “oomph”: I might call someone impolite while really wanting to use another term.
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