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With a built-in exception for Scunthorpe, but not for the million of other examples why automatic swear word filtering is a bad idea (Shitake, Sussex, classic,

With a built-in exception for Scunthorpe, but not for the million of other examples why automatic swear word filtering is a bad idea (Shitake, Sussex, classic, peoples' names, ...). A fun piece of art, but I hope nobody actually uses this font.

neya 4y ago
I may actually use it just to p** off people. Oh wait, maybe I didn't need a font for that :)))
- Majestic121 4y ago
  Did you mean piss off, or is it a three letter word that is missing from my vocabulary ?
  - sh4rks 4y ago
    He's talking about the other end
  - npteljes 4y ago
    Maybe it's piß
  - smegsicle 4y ago
    i think it's hn's formatter mangling it, let me check a* s** p** yup, though when editing it escapes them so they don't get mangled again
The_suffocated 4y ago
Yes, it's a fun piece of art. I don't think this was meant to be practical. It was probably just an interesting experiment or proof of concept.
cynix 4y ago
> Shitake This one wouldn’t have been censored if it was spelt correctly :)
- bencollier49 4y ago
  What, in Kanji?
  - cynix 4y ago
    No, shiitake. It was missing an i.
    - hvdijk 4y ago
      No, it wasn't. Merriam Webster includes shitake as a less common but valid spelling. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shitake https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shitake
      - bluejekyll 4y ago
        This reminds me of a professor who while reviewing a paper of mine, circled a word in red ink and said “not a word”. So I brought in my dictionary and pointed to the word, and said see? They then told me that Merriam-Webster is shit, and I should be using the American Heritage dictionary: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=shitake+&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=shitake+&sub...
        hvdijk 4y ago
        I wonder what your professor's opinion on OED is. It includes shitake. https://www.lexico.com/definition/shiitake https://www.lexico.com/definition/shiitake (note the "also shitake")
        toast0 4y ago
        OED is a great reference, but not really normative for the US.
        hvdijk 4y ago
benj111 4y ago
I don't get it, what bad words does the string "people's names" contain. Is 'les' a perjoritive for lesbians now??? Or is it the near anagram of 'man penis'??? Or is it because it doesn't contain any of the letters in 'shit'???
- simonh 4y ago
  Some personal names contain naughty words.
- traverseda 4y ago
  They mean names that include swear words in them. For example there are people with the last name Shite (mostly in the DR Congo) according to google.
  - benj111 4y ago
    Yes. I was joking. I would have hoped that my increasingly silly theories would have made that clear.
pessimizer 4y ago
It passed my buttbuttinate test, but it turns out it doesn't think "ass" or even "ass hole" are swears.

neya 4y ago

I may actually use it just to p** off people. Oh wait, maybe I didn't need a font for that :)))

Majestic121 4y ago
Did you mean piss off, or is it a three letter word that is missing from my vocabulary ?
- sh4rks 4y ago
  He's talking about the other end
- npteljes 4y ago
  Maybe it's piß
- smegsicle 4y ago
  i think it's hn's formatter mangling it, let me check a* s** p** yup, though when editing it escapes them so they don't get mangled again

The_suffocated 4y ago

Yes, it's a fun piece of art. I don't think this was meant to be practical. It was probably just an interesting experiment or proof of concept.

cynix 4y ago

> Shitake This one wouldn’t have been censored if it was spelt correctly :)

bencollier49 4y ago
What, in Kanji?
- cynix 4y ago
  No, shiitake. It was missing an i.
  - hvdijk 4y ago
    No, it wasn't. Merriam Webster includes shitake as a less common but valid spelling. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shitake https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shitake
    - bluejekyll 4y ago
      This reminds me of a professor who while reviewing a paper of mine, circled a word in red ink and said “not a word”. So I brought in my dictionary and pointed to the word, and said see? They then told me that Merriam-Webster is shit, and I should be using the American Heritage dictionary: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=shitake+&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=shitake+&sub...
      - hvdijk 4y ago
        I wonder what your professor's opinion on OED is. It includes shitake. https://www.lexico.com/definition/shiitake https://www.lexico.com/definition/shiitake (note the "also shitake")
        toast0 4y ago
        OED is a great reference, but not really normative for the US.
        hvdijk 4y ago

benj111 4y ago

I don't get it, what bad words does the string "people's names" contain. Is 'les' a perjoritive for lesbians now??? Or is it the near anagram of 'man penis'??? Or is it because it doesn't contain any of the letters in 'shit'???

simonh 4y ago
Some personal names contain naughty words.
traverseda 4y ago
They mean names that include swear words in them. For example there are people with the last name Shite (mostly in the DR Congo) according to google.
- benj111 4y ago
  Yes. I was joking. I would have hoped that my increasingly silly theories would have made that clear.

pessimizer 4y ago

It passed my buttbuttinate test, but it turns out it doesn't think "ass" or even "ass hole" are swears.