On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:07 -0600, Craig Herman wrote: > OK. I'll try. But I don't have any estimate of when I will finish. > > Craig >
Thanks. In the meantime I have asked the project which maintains the thesaurus the following: > 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? Hope we get a definitive answer. > -----Original Message----- > From: G. Roderick Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:49 AM > To: users@openoffice.org > Cc: Craig Herman > Subject: RE: [users] Profanity in the dictionary and thesaurus > > > Craig, > > For an interim solution, I suggest that you remove/dusable the thesaurus at > least until you can edit the file and get a working one. You can do this by > removing the line > THES en US th_en_US_v2 > from <wherever>/openoffice.org2.0/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst > > On my system, simply commenting out the line and restarting OOo is > sufficient. > > Good luck on Bowlderizing. > > Do try this by editing both th_en_US_v2.dat and th_en_US_v2.idx for > your list of banned words. > > If you are successful, perhaps you could donate these to the project so > others may avoid the problem you are having. If you like I will create an > issue to which you can attach the files. > > > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:17 -0600, Craig Herman wrote: > > Type "mishandle" and look at the fourth term from the bottom. It > > gives "f**k up" as a synonym. That was the real problem that I had. > > On the other hand, if you type "f**k up" and look up a synonym in the > > thesaurus, it gives good suggestions as alternates. I guess that > > makes it sort of even. I checked MS Word. If you misspell "f**k", it > > marks it as incorrect. If you look up "f**k" or "f**k up", it gives > > no suggestions. What would be better is to not give "f**k up" as a > > synonym, but to give synonyms for "f**k up" if asked. After checking > > further, look up "motherf**ker" and see what you get. > > > > Craig > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Volke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:15 AM > > To: users@openoffice.org > > Subject: RE: [users] Profanity in the dictionary and thesaurus > > > > > > The only instance I'd see this being an issue for a school would be if > > you typed in botch and you got f*ck up suggested as a synonym. I > > checked and in fact f*ck up is not suggested at all. The only > > instance in which it comes up is if the user types it, and in that > > case it suggests synonyms. Why shouldn't the software offer the kids > > nice alternatives to otherwise nasty words? Isn't this your original > > concern anyway? If the kids already know the word enough to spell it > > correctly, then I think censoring the dictionary is going to be > > fruitless. That's my two cents. Good luck with the distribution, > > personally I hope more schools begin using OpenOffice as I think they > > can benefit the most from its use. > > > > Robert > > > > >>> "Craig Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/18/05 8:04 AM >>> > > I'm not necessarily trying to be a censor. What I was really concerned > > about was being forced to remove OpenOffice.org from the computers in > > my classroom because of those words. I looked them up in a school > > dictionary and they were there also, so I doubt it will be an issue. > > However, I still think a user should have the ability to remove or add > > words and/or phrases from the dictionary and thesaurus if they want > > to. > > > > Craig > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wangshanpo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:29 AM > > To: users@openoffice.org > > Subject: Re: [users] Profanity in the dictionary and thesaurus > > > > > > Martin S wrote: > > > 2005/11/18, Craig Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> The word f**k and the expression "f**k up" are in the dictionary > > >> and > > > > >> thesaurus. Is it possible to remove these? I have tried, but I have > > > > >> been unsuccessful. I would like to use these at my school, but with > > > > >> these words in the dictionary, I don't think that will be possible. > > >> > > >> > > > > > > Interesting. > > > My sons school has a policy against profanity in school. However, no > > > > > one has ever come up with the idea of censoring the Word > > dictionaries. > > > Children pick up these words weather you like or not, so it's fairly > > > > > pointless in trying to censor dictionaries. And if they still use > > them > > > in texts, they might as well spell them correctly. > > > > > > Personally I'd be very reluctant to start practicing censorship - > > > you > > > > > never know where it ends. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Martin S > > > > > > > > Craig asked a very simple function/operation related question but see > > how it ferreted out those whose moral judgement is evidently better than > > the rest. > > Intriguing! > > -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. 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