Need help with my profanity. Kind of.

[klwilliams]

I'm working on a project to predict the next word in a sentence, and I need to put in a profanity filter to make sure the word I predict isn't one of *those* words. I've put my list so far below the cut, and I'd appreciate it if any of you could add to my list. Thanks.


ass
asshole
shit
fuck
fucks
fucked
fucking
bitch
bitches
cunt
cunts
motherfucker
nigger
niggers
nigga
niggas
asses
assholes
shithead
shitheads
shitty
cock
pussy
cocks
pussies
motherfuckers

Comments

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

twat
twatwaffle
fuckbucket
tittysprinkles


Ah screw it. Here's a fairly extensive list:
http://www.noswearing.com/dictionary
Probably more than you need.

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the British variants arse and arsehole. pricks dicks -- tricky because the context can make them perfectly respectable, esp. prick. Come to think of it, what do you do about context in such filters. "The elderly woman down the street has 8 pussy cats", for ex.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I err on the side of caution. My success rate with this app is low, anyway. (So is everyone else's.) Just getting the app to work and predict something is the point, I think.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that link was...eye opening. What's really scary is that I searched for some of those words, and found them. My, what is twitter for?

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

I remember the great barnacle debacle. The massively multiplayer game Puzzle Pirates decided to install a filter to replace cussing with colorful nautical terms instead. During the beta testing, on the day they turned on the filter -- they installed it backwards. And suddenly all the adorable roleplaying playmobil-style pirates turned foul-mouthed as anything.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

That's hysterical. One thing I'm trying to avoid is mid-word matches, so names that contain "shit" in the middle don't get screened.

[goldenmug.livejournal.com]

Over here it's known as the Scunthorpe test. Scunthorpe being a town in the middle of nowhere, whose name was largely not problematic absent computer instring searches. We all knew it as just one of many English towns whose name ended in "thorp[e]".

There was a story going round in the 90s that AOL had written to the town council telling them it would be necessary for the town to have a different name for internet purposes.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I heard about the Scunthorpe problem. It's a classic.

[jemck.livejournal.com]

more from the UK Profanisaurus -

dickhead
wanker
knob
knobhead

also fanny doesn't mean buttocks where I come from, it means pudenda

as does minge

How many derogatory terms for non-white races would you like? My grandfather had an extensive and specific collection. I remember being lectured on the difference between 'wog' and 'wop'...

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Found one "wop" but no "wog". I've put in ones for African Americans and Latinos, but there seem to be very few slurs against Jews. The "wop" surprised me. Thanks.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

There are lots of slurs against Jews, sadly. The worst one here is 'kike', which I hate even to type.
There's also 'dago' (southern Europeans); Paki (shudder), Chink/Chinky, and lots of dodgy phrases (eg 'a touch of the tar-brush' as a description of someone of mixed race).

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I didn't find "kike" in my word list, but there were slurs against Chinese and African Americans.

[goldenmug.livejournal.com]

Now I would not have recognised "wop" as a Jewish slur. But you can add "yid" and "jewboy" (has to be all one word.) to the list.

A little rooting around in my vocabulary also produced "nig-nog" and "towel-head". Then in your own part of the world I believe that accusing someone of being a "Canuck" is a sure-fire way to start a fight in an ice-hockey game.

You could also go to Wiki and look up "List_of_ethnic_slurs" and "List_of_religious_slurs" - both of whom have their own pages.

I notice the lack of "bugger" as an expletive and general derogatory term. "Ahm not doing it for nae bugger else," as my home help said when cross with a couple of her clients. This may also account for my problem with "Ender's Game" (leaving aside politics), when the enemies were called the "Buggers" - did OSC know that was a standard crude term that newscasters and schoolteachers did not use?

Also surprised at the absence of "damn" in your list, plus "damnation". Along with "Hell".

Also so common it's no longer blanked out, except in very restrictive contexts, "bloody". When I was 10 or thereabouts I remember my father explaining that there were times when you could say "bloody" if you were referring, for example, to battle.

There's also the whole variety of names for the female pudenda - though "cunt" is almost rehabilitated as a down-to-earth descriptive term for aforementioned female parts, calling or referring to a woman as a "stupid cunt" would still bring down the wrath of both sorts of language police (old-fashioned and PC) - and the "stupid" bit of it is not usually the cause of complaint.

There's lots more, often round sex, but I'm too tired to dig them out. Another time maybe.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've added a bunch of these. Interestingly enough, I'm not finding any of the rude names for Jews, though other ethnic rudeness abounds. I'm not putting in the British slang, because this is a largely American corpus, and we don't respond to bloody and some of the others the same way.

[davidlevine]

Wop isn't a slur for "Jew." It means "Italian."

Profanity

[(Anonymous)]

There is bastard(s), cunt(s). Maybe asswipe? Is this only American English only? Petra

Re: Profanity

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Got them. Thanks. It's US English only, because the dataset was US English only. There are other sets, but that's the one I'm using (because that's the language I speak).

[attimes-bracing.livejournal.com]

Twat
Twot
Mofo

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Added 'em. Thanks.

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Jeremy Clarkson got into trouble for saying "there's a slope on that bridge" as slope is a derogatory term for an Asian. You cannot win, though do I understand that you are not censoring the swear words, just not offering them as choices (or chocolate as this predictive text has just offered)?

Also shirtlifter and quim.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Should my predictor come up with a suggestion that is on my profanity list, I will instead offer "(censored)" and explain this in the FAQ tab on the (web) app.

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

The Brits on this list may think of the censored song round in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue . You seem to be automating it.

[katerit.livejournal.com]

cum
cumbubble
felch
felching

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

Add the same words but end with z, especially with the n word.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Good catch. Thanks.

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

II really like the 'censored' idea.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[darcyjavanne.livejournal.com]

Fudgepacker
Rug muncher
Spic
Jap

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Added them.

[darcyjavanne.livejournal.com]

Do you need words for people with disqbilities? If so...

Cripple
Crip
Freak
Gimp
Gimpy
Crazy
Defective(s)
Spaz
Handicapped

My phone has a prediction feature, which is irritating, because I likely *am* trying to type "shit"

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

Retard
retarded
tard
fucktard

...unless you're doing something chemical or mechanical which might need retarding.


Slightly less offensive:
idiot
dumbass
moron
jackass

[goldenmug.livejournal.com]

Though you have to be careful of period with these words - there were several decades when "handicapped" was the accepted "polite" term for people with disabilities. And when I was growing up I was told it was rude to refer to people as "black", the "nice" word was "negro". And many a WWII veteran in the UK would have referred to "my gimpy leg" without feeling that they were using a word that was in any sense unacceptable.

Then new words come in. I remember my late father-in-law, a man not over-burdened with cultural sensitivities, saying that he didn't want to get lumped together with "the incompletes". It's not a term I have heard much, but with the rise in the numbers of those with dementia, I'm guessing that it will spread.

Just noticed the absence of "tart", though someone married to a foodie might find that one difficult to add to the "forbidden" list. Calling a women a "cow" is unflattering and - in these parts - calling her a "mare" still more so (one denoting general inadequacy and the other lack of discrimination in sexual partners).

A would-be candidate in the upcoming general election here came under fire for referring to a woman from Thailand as a "ting tong". Don't know how widespread that one is.

I remember reading somewhere that, once upon a time, the guardians of purity in the US wanted to ban the word "pump" from "acceptable" internet sites because of its sexual connotation. This did not go down well with all sorts of people from bicycle fanatics to people making steam engines.

"Crap" does not appear on this page, so I'm assuming it's not in your list.

Have you looked at what the Clean Reader project removes?

According the CNet review (Google "clean-reader-the-app-that-censors-rude-words-from-ebooks")

"For example, body parts in the genital region of women are all turned into "bottom"; the f-bomb becomes "freak"; "breast" becomes "chest", which at least is relatively analogous; "Jesus" becomes "gee" (which is actually a euphemistic corruption of "Jesus"); "Oh my God" becomes "Oh my goodness"; "whore" becomes "hussy"; "bitch" becomes "witch" (which could get somewhat confusing if the book actually discusses dogs)."

There's also a link there to another site reviewing Clean Reader with a list of more words that need replacing - including some oddities - when reading modern "romances". Google "My Clean Reader App Experience."

Fun - if not "good clean fun". :-)

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks for these. It's fascinating what words people will come up with just to be mean. Or rude or crude.

[davidlevine]

I'm truly astonished that no one in this thread has yet mentioned George Carlin's famous list of "seven words you can never say on television": shit, piss, cunt, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. ("And what is tits doing on that list anyway? It sounds like a snack!") Of these I am equally surprised to see that your list and the commenters so far fail to include more than half, to wit: piss, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I remembered that, and added them already. But thanks for bringing that up. We might be showing our age.

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

heh, and my swearing would pass any predictor, because how can a predictor find 'that fuckity fuck fucker just stole my parking place'? I'd need a parser that looked for the first four letters of every word I type.

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

hmm, and livejournal took out my extra swearing part that I put inside carets. so amend the above sentence to say 'my (insert more swearing) parking place.'

[goldenmug.livejournal.com]

Karen, this is a lot of fun. I was just looking at youtube on a clip about someone who is really proud of hating Neal deGrasse Tyson. His name is McInnes and they (folks in clip) said of him:

"McInnes has referred to Asian-Americans as "slopes" and "riceballs""

And, of course, I thought of you.

Those two epithets are both entirely new to me, but are up to date and genu-i-nely American. And, of course, very hard to distinguish from respectable words without a context.

EtA: Just seen "slope" in an earlier post. Not "riceball" though.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Didja get wank yet?

Slope
Chink
sand nigger
fishbelly
greaser
beaner
smeg
pecker

How about hell and damn?