Re: Profanity in the CB/Nodes

As I said, only the utterly naieve will find relief in such a filter. Either you change the meaning or intent of the poster - or you don't. If you don't, it's still profanity. "Shit" isn't profanity because it's an 's' followed by an 'h' followed by an 'i' and trailed by a 't'. It's the meaning that's important. Regardless whether you call 'shit', 'crap' or 'fluffy bun', it's the same smelly substance.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

-- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Abigail

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Re: Re: Profanity in the CB/Nodes by johndageek (Hermit) on Feb 03, 2004 at 22:24 UTC
Oh but think of the fun this type of filter could provide. Perhaps we could start another node, call it obfu-filter. By substituting one word that could be offenive to another person with another word that could be offensive to a different person, we could totally obscure the intent, readability, and meaning of the original writer. Perhaps we could replace all letters with ~, so there would be no confusion as to which word may have been offensive, hence no chance of offense. Have fun and thanks for an interesting reply! dageek	[reply]

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Re: Re: Profanity in the CB/Nodes
by johndageek (Hermit) on Feb 03, 2004 at 22:24 UTC

Perhaps we could replace all letters with ~, so there would be no confusion as to which word may have been offensive, hence no chance of offense.

Have fun and thanks for an interesting reply!
dageek

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