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

[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."