• Schal330@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I remember the first time I found out about this, I mentioned it to a friend and they linked me to the profanity dictionary their company uses. While perusing through the list and having a laugh at some of the words that are filtered, like “cumtart”, “dickweasel”, “mastrabator”, and “wankerers” to name a few I realised that someone must have sat there thinking up some of these words to filter them. That must have been a fun afternoon.

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      10 hours ago

      I was that someone at a company in the early 2000s. I can confirm that it was, in fact, fun.

      A coworker and I came up with every offensive word we could think of over a few days. Then, on Friday afternoon, we shared a 6 pack and got really inventive.

      I’d imagine the list is still kicking around that company somewhere and hope it is our eternal legacy.

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      13 hours ago

      A friend pointed out to me that Microsoft Word wouldn’t underline swear words (because they are spelled correctly), but also wouldn’t suggest if they were misspelled.

      I spent many a happy afternoon in Word VBA (it was a while ago) trying to get access to the list that it must keep!