Hi All,

Didn’t know which forum to post this to so I had to guess.  How’d I do?

I searched for a censored words list and found this one on a site free for the taking.  I used Editpad pro to format it for EE (1 per line). But I opened it in notepad and it’s fine.

It’s pretty comprehensive (blushing) but it needed some improvement.  If you’re easily offended just cut and paste in the dark.

Michael

As always, this list contains lots and lots of perfectly acceptable dual-use words (ass, balls, cock, fag, knob, prick ...) Just glad my name isn’t Willy Gaylord Cox…

I toyed with the idea of editing this (do we really need to see the examples in the post as we browse) and then realized that I have a very interesting use of language, when the first thing I see is slang, and not real English.

But, as Ingmar says, anyone using someone else’s blacklist should “buyer beware” because what one person might use perfectly acceptably, another can not see - so if you do this then get strange results when you say “The nurse warned her that the prick with the needle would sting.” Or “he collected the tennis balls…” don’t be too shocked. =)

It’s pretty comprehensive (blushing) but it needed some improvement.

Nothing ambiguous in that statement was there?

In searching the EE forums i have not run across such a list.  Just some posts asking if anyone knew of any. I thought it would be a helpful start for some users.

Use it.  Don’t use it.  Remove it.

It’s up to you.

Michael

I’m sure it’ll be handy for some, but it is always important to include warnings and look critically before adding anything to one’s website.  I’ve also wiki’d this. =)

Thank you.

Lisa Wess - 13 December 2006 07:07 AM

I toyed with the idea of editing this (do we really need to see the examples in the post as we browse) and then realized that I have a very interesting use of language, when the first thing I see is slang, and not real English.

But, as Ingmar says, anyone using someone else’s blacklist should “buyer beware” because what one person might use perfectly acceptably, another can not see - so if you do this then get strange results when you say “The nurse warned her that the prick with the needle would sting.” Or “he collected the tennis balls…” don’t be too shocked. =)

Your reply kept me thinking, and perhaps my approach as a non-native speaker is a bit different. Of course I know the slang meaning of these words, but for me, perhaps, there is no intrinsic shock-value as might exist for (some) native speakers.

Also, I perceive free speech as a value per se. To quote Marc Rotenberg in closing: “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances.”

I’m actually in my last meeting of a gov class all about free speech - pMachine, Inc - as a private establishment, is not held to that standard.

That said - those uses are totally valid and only really pricked (haha) my interest, I suppose, because I was looking at them from a “blacklist” standpoint.  There *are* words I would have edited out of there, by the way - but not those. =)

Anyway - Ingmar, if you’d like to continue this, I welcome you to begin a thread in the lounge or PM me, but we’ve gone far beyond the subject.

Thank you to Michael for providing this, I’m sure there are many community members that will find it helpful.

Lisa Wess - 13 December 2006 01:40 PM

I’m actually in my last meeting of a gov class all about free speech - pMachine, Inc - as a private establishment, is not held to that standard.

Oh, I know that, and I’m not holding anyone to any standard here, just voicing an opinion.

There *are* words I would have edited out of there, by the way - but not those. =)

You don’t say

Anyway - Ingmar, if you’d like to continue this, I welcome you to begin a thread in the lounge or PM me, but we’ve gone far beyond the subject.

I agree, let’s close this thread.

Did you guys find out a default list to put into the system to start out?