Her other idea is turn swearing to pirate talk. I'd need less help for that, but it really ought to happen the week or month of Talk Like a Pirate Day, and wasn't that in the spring?
We've got our work cut out for us then, don't we?
Pirates were real bad-buttocked persons of uncertain ancestery.;lol
What's the Star War's version? "I've got a bad feeling about this..."?
What's the Star War's version? "I've got a bad feeling about this..."?
"I find your lack of faith disturbing..."
Mylochka had a cute idea last week - temporarily change the way the swear filter alters forbidden terminology to something ever funnier - her first idea was for made-up cuss terms from popular SF, thus all Frack and Frell and Kark. Nobody's ever come up with an extensive vocabulary of fake profanity in any one work, so I'd need a lot of help coming up with translations for even the handful of naughty RL terms people actually use here. Fortunately (perhaps) this is the sort of idiotic thing the internet is good for...I use "frack" in my offline life. Not only am I old enough to have watched and enjoyed the original Battlestar Galactica (felgercarb and all ;)), but the word "frack" is a RL word used when talking about the abominable practice of oil companies forcing potable water into the ground to get at reserves more cheaply than using other methods. Fracking ruins the environment, can cause earthquakes in areas that never had them before, and has rendered usable farmland totally useless. I feel so strongly about this that I cancelled my Reader's Digest subscription because they accepted advertising from Cenovus (a company that not only engages in fracking, but brags about it in TV and print ads like destroying productive farmland is a good thing).
On some American forums, the lyrics to "Pack Up Your Troubles" can't be posted in their entirety; the profanity filter will be tripped. The spelling might be the same, but the meaning is completely different.I googled it, and this is one of those forums. alas, though pretty thoroughly international. A slur is a slur, and we take slurs more seriously than traditional forms of cussin'.
It's not a big deal for me. :) I just used it as an example. The reverse is also true: some words that are harmless when used in Canada will result in raised eyebrows and disapproval from British people (Plotinus and I ran into that a couple of times on CFC; I'm Canadian and he's British).On some American forums, the lyrics to "Pack Up Your Troubles" can't be posted in their entirety; the profanity filter will be tripped. The spelling might be the same, but the meaning is completely different.I googled it, and this is one of those forums. alas, though pretty thoroughly international. A slur is a slur, and we take slurs more seriously than traditional forms of cussin'.
Should I consider spiking that one in case someone wants to use the Commonwealth form to refer to tiredness or cigarettes, and just deal with the slur manually if needed? (I do not love putting up with anything just three letters being in the filter -they cause way too many problems when the same sequence is part of an okay word- so I could easily be talked into it...)
I've never counted, it is so many that I'm not interested in counting, and I estimate around 500 or more entries. The majority is ethnic/sexual slurs and a lot of everything is attempts to anticipate workarounds. -You know, w0rkar0unds.
FLAPDOODLE!
People, OT till the tubes break in half, but humor me and throw in some SF naughty words.
Edit: okay, that was helpful, but the sigh is still resented.
Thank you. BUncle asked me to swear SF-style, so I wanted to do it right. :PFLAPDOODLE!
Nice font.
You are currently painted green?
Way to go, Mylochka! ;b;
For As*h*le, we replace it with:This gives away too much information about you, I think.
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You are currently painted green?
Way to go, Mylochka! ;b;
You should see the Frida Kahlo reproduction she painted on the wall of the garage.
You know --- an option I haven't mentioned would be to cut the censor out of the loop entirely and use the smilie function. They work the same way, but one substitutes characters (asterisks, or the bracketed translations I entered, and the like) and the other substitutes little pics. The biggest difference is that the smilies always work. I could upload a smilie with the f-word as the smilie code. I could make a little Lalla Ward Romanna appear any time someone says Valka, too, for that matter.Just remember that it can have unintended consequences, like I mentioned with the writing competition I was running. It's not funny for someone to enter a serious story in a serious contest and have a dumb-looking smiley (or any smiley, for that matter) in the middle of a sentence. I raised a fuss about that because it would have hurt that contestant's chances - the competition and the voters would have used it as an excuse to unfairly criticize the story and downvote it.
Lots of possibilities, though I'd have to make the swear list real short to keep it manageable, and just deal directly with the rare occurrences of other bad words and slurs...