On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 22:41 +0200, Jancs wrote: > Citēju "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Any chance a bowlderized or cleaned up thesaurus existing now. I ask > > because a school teacher has encountered a problem with the thesaurus > > that is distributed where the f-word in its many forms is offered as a > > synonym. > > > > Failing that how to clean up easily? > > I think the existance of all f-words, p-words (for Latvian) in dictionaries is > the matter of attitude - exaggerated sensitivity to things person does not > like. For example, in Latvia you will not find any electronic dictionary which > would not contain basic slang (no matter commercial of free). > > I am not pro-slangist, but think that it is not possible to hide away form > such > things - and what about some regular words having the other -slangish- meaning > - let's make them disappear alltogether? > > If you are going to intruduce some censorship, then you must be ready to > produce > dictionaries which will satisfy catholics, judaists, mormons, sexual > minorities, > democrats, republicans etc. etc. > ***
True enough but that is not what I asked. I asked whether or not there were existing thesaures that had offensive words removed. I also asked if there were none, was there a script, method or procedure that a user (in this case, read dumb user) could use to clean up for use by children. If not, can someone offer guidance that could do this task. Thanks for your input. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
