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Instead of purging the vocabulary, they shuld have tought it/she/him the concept of registers[0] and code switching[1]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regist
by nsns 14y ago
Instead of purging the vocabulary, they shuld have tought it/she/him the concept of registers[0] and code switching[1].
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_%28sociolinguistics%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_%28sociolinguistics%29
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_switching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_switching
- azernik 14y agoThey could have, but then they would have had to go through the Urban Dictionary and try to classify its terms by register. Like it says in the article, the problem wasn't that all of Urban Dictionary was obscene, it was that they couldn't tell the computer which parts were and which parts weren't.