This is OT, but "Sue" started it! ;o) So anytime, anywhere, anything anyone wants to say is acceptable to you....I guess it's ok for a child's kindergarten teacher to use profanity of any type in front of them when she teaches the little kids?
There's a huge difference between the academic study of the use of profanity by people who resort to such "gutter language" because they lack the ability to express ideas forcefully through more appropriate *and* more precise language in a normal discourse... Any language you object to, Isaac? "Nigger", "Fag", "Queer", "Honky"...all those are forms of profanity or terms of denigration...all acceptable to you and used in your normal conversations? Is yelling "Fire" in a crowded theatre acceptable to you? Rick -----Original Message----- From: S.Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 2:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Built a dirty word checker, testing please? >>Even with english it doesn't appear to work at all... >>every single one >>of these words passed: dirty filthy slimy greasy sleazy >>scuzzy cruddy >>dungy grubby grungy mucky muddy mung murky raunchy scummy >>skank >>sullied yucky > And every one of those words would be allowed on my pages. > let's stick with the words you DON'T want allowed on your > pages. :) Heh... Sorry, i couldn't resist the joke. :) Partly because I object to censorship on principal... I think it's evil. It's also practically useless anyway -- you can prevent a person from using a particular specific word -- maybe -- if you have a great REGEX to prevent any variation of l33t, white space or other random characters interjected into the middle of the word (and are willing to put up with it causing an insane amount of overhead), but you can't prevent people from expressing an idea which is more important than the specific word. I can say "we fucked" or I can say "we engaged in sexual intercourse" -- it's the same idea -- the fact that people object to "we fucked" is ... well ... it's a stupid objection made by stupid people. Sorry if that offends you (since I may have just labelled you as a stupid person), but then I have to go back to my original objection that censorship is evil. Every idea should be examined, even when the end result might be unpleasant, because, well... we need unpleasantness (or at least an experiential understanding of it). Otherwise we end up ignorant and doing things just because "that's the way it's done", which imo isn't a good reason to do something. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p49777853/ http://www.sys-con.com/author/?id=4806 http://www.fusiontap.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202102 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
