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Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

nogabebop23 wrote: post #146
sbarre wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This. People who swear do it so frequently it looses the power. It shows a lack of vocabulary more than any sort of moral failing. If you only swear rarely you get a lot more impact when you do, vs. the person who cannot avoid every 3rd word being a blue one. Also, there are some truly eloquent swears out there!

Yup, some people swear so much it becomes a stop- or filler word, padding out a sentence unnecessarily.

I mean you could insert a variation of "fuck" half a dozen times in the above sentence and it would add nothing of value to it.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by saagarjha »

umvi wrote: post #199
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…

Censorship (in my opinion) has a time and a place. And it should always be a choice, never forced on you. This is an extremely controversial topic that seems to get a lot of people's emotions running hot, so please try and counter that before responding. In my opinion, censorship of media is a personal preference akin to food aversions. Picking the mushrooms out of a chef's dish isn't censorship, nor an insult to his…

Do your teenagers prefer watching the censored version?

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

avanai wrote: post #175
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…

How do you express yourself when you drop something heavy on your toe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmNXzohQ42Q

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

vidarh wrote: post #152
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…

> 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…

Yup, intent is more important than the actual words.

An acquaintance has taken to using a feature or piece of wardrobe as an insult, e.g. "Baseball cap" or whatever.

There's also a story that I can't remember fully (my girlfriend knows it) where "prairie hat" became an insult.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by moonbug »

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…

psst..it's a joke.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

kitotik wrote: post #173
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…

A nice counter may be a font that uses ligatures to replace benign impotent words with their more forceful and blunt equivalents.

Or that undoes self-censoring like fk or a$$. I mean come on, who thinks that actually "protects" the reader or whyever they do it?

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #209
teh_klev wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus-shitting-Christ, calm the fuck down. Cocking hell, it's clearly just a bit of fucking about. No need to pop a bollock. /s

I realize it's /s, but there are people who talk exactly like that, most of the time. It'd be simpler if they just said "calm down, doesn't matter."

While true, it's padding and mannerisms like that which add personality to a phrase. Works better in spoken language I think.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

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…

A lot of creative examples from Roblox (which may be what is referred here, dunno) is the 'go commit die' subreddit. I'm sure a lot of that is creative trolls instead of actual kids, but still.

Re: Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font

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Post by wastedhours »

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…

I think this is based off the rather amusing story of someone writing an overzealous curse word filter that didn't allow people from Scunthorpe to write the name of their town.

It's an art project over and above anything else.

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