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It's strange that societies discover every 100 years or so how profanities come to existence.
by anal_reactor 2y ago
It's strange that societies discover every 100 years or so how profanities come to existence.
- pseudo0 2y agoThis is an interesting emergent trend though because it's designed to evade automated content moderation. The whole point of "PDF file" is that it's perfectly innocuous without an understanding of the surrounding context. With real-time audio transcription increasingly common, even livestreamers have to do this to avoid getting hit with automated bans or deprioritization.
- arrowsmith 2y agoWhat is PDF file a euphemism for? That was the only one in the original post I couldn’t figure out. Porn?
- SSLy 2y agoa nonce
- arrowsmith 2y agoOhhhhhh.
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- anal_reactor 2y ago[dead]
- iamthemonster 2y agoThere is a long history of euphemisms taking over - one day we may say "unalived" as a perfectly normal replacement for "killed", just as we don't call bears "arkto" or "ursa" any more, we just euphemistically call them "brown things", i.e. "bero" in protogermanic hence "bear" in English.