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Oh man, when I worked there in Localisation for Office, there were crazy length lists for every language, it was so much fun to read through with foreign friend

Oh man, when I worked there in Localisation for Office, there were crazy length lists for every language, it was so much fun to read through with foreign friends!

smsm42 13y ago
There are opensource dictionaries, timezone DBs, geo databases, etc. I wonder if there are also opensource multilingual swear word lists.
- noonespecial 13y ago
  If we do, its nice to know we've got a modern day Rosetta Stone just waiting for those alien anthropologists.
- Intermernet 13y ago
  Not multilingual, but open source, is the lovely collection of lists included with Dan's Guardian (In configs\lists\phraselists in the source, available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dansguardian/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dansguardian/ ) Maybe someone should ask Dan if we can stick them in plain text somewhere easily accessible for future projects to reference. I know we don't really need to ask, but it's polite. We could then let the moderators of certain subreddits, or 4chan, have commit access to add new, creative terms of profanity! I think this would be a humorous list to have around, if only to find out what people are being offended by these days. I have a feeling that, for every term, phrase or word you care to quote, there'll be someone who's offended by it. Which brings me to the point that there has been a fair bit of debate over the use of profanity filters (a few good links at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273516/how-do-you-implement-a-good-profanity-filter http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273516/how-do-you-impleme...) and how effective they are. One of the references in the link above is for a 14yo circumventing a profanity filter (based on a white-list) with the phrase "I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny."
  - WalterGR 13y ago
    I think this would be a humorous list to have around, if only to find out what people are being offended by these days. I run a slang dictionary website where visitors can score how offensive they find the terms. The 100 most offensive are listed here: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/lists/most-vulgar-words/ http://onlineslangdictionary.com/lists/most-vulgar-words/ It's not multilingual and not open source, but it does capture some of the "state of the art" of dirty words.
    - Intermernet 13y ago
      That's brilliant! Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way? Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site? If so, is there anyone from Google reading this that can have a look into this for him? It seems a bit unfair (to say the least) that a dictionary is penalized for citing sources, surely that's just responsible editorial! (Link with some info if you're interested http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/ http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/)
      - WalterGR 13y ago
        That's brilliant! Thanks! Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way? I'd absolutely love to. But with Google penalizing the site for the majority of the past 2 years, I've become extra-sensitive about content on my site being available anywhere else on the web. In another world, I'd be ecstatic any time I came across material sourced from the site. But as it stands, I've given some thought to filing my first DMCA requests - thus becoming part of that chilling effect that gave chillingeffects.org its name. I have put the data to some good use. http://www.offensivest.com/books/ http://www.offensivest.com/books/ ranks English works in the Project Gutenberg corpus by vulgarity. The site desperately needs some TLC: at the least, tweaks to the methodology and a page explaining what that methodology is. I have more ideas for using the data, but I spend 90% of my time trying to get rid of the penalties. So... Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site? Yes, very much so.

Oh man, when I worked there in Localisation for Office, there were crazy length lists for every language, it was so much fun to read through with foreign friends!

smsm42 13y ago

There are opensource dictionaries, timezone DBs, geo databases, etc. I wonder if there are also opensource multilingual swear word lists.

noonespecial 13y ago
If we do, its nice to know we've got a modern day Rosetta Stone just waiting for those alien anthropologists.
Intermernet 13y ago
Not multilingual, but open source, is the lovely collection of lists included with Dan's Guardian (In configs\lists\phraselists in the source, available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dansguardian/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dansguardian/ ) Maybe someone should ask Dan if we can stick them in plain text somewhere easily accessible for future projects to reference. I know we don't really need to ask, but it's polite. We could then let the moderators of certain subreddits, or 4chan, have commit access to add new, creative terms of profanity! I think this would be a humorous list to have around, if only to find out what people are being offended by these days. I have a feeling that, for every term, phrase or word you care to quote, there'll be someone who's offended by it. Which brings me to the point that there has been a fair bit of debate over the use of profanity filters (a few good links at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273516/how-do-you-implement-a-good-profanity-filter http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273516/how-do-you-impleme...) and how effective they are. One of the references in the link above is for a 14yo circumventing a profanity filter (based on a white-list) with the phrase "I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny."
- WalterGR 13y ago
  I think this would be a humorous list to have around, if only to find out what people are being offended by these days. I run a slang dictionary website where visitors can score how offensive they find the terms. The 100 most offensive are listed here: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/lists/most-vulgar-words/ http://onlineslangdictionary.com/lists/most-vulgar-words/ It's not multilingual and not open source, but it does capture some of the "state of the art" of dirty words.
  - Intermernet 13y ago
    That's brilliant! Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way? Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site? If so, is there anyone from Google reading this that can have a look into this for him? It seems a bit unfair (to say the least) that a dictionary is penalized for citing sources, surely that's just responsible editorial! (Link with some info if you're interested http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/ http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/)
    - WalterGR 13y ago
      That's brilliant! Thanks! Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way? I'd absolutely love to. But with Google penalizing the site for the majority of the past 2 years, I've become extra-sensitive about content on my site being available anywhere else on the web. In another world, I'd be ecstatic any time I came across material sourced from the site. But as it stands, I've given some thought to filing my first DMCA requests - thus becoming part of that chilling effect that gave chillingeffects.org its name. I have put the data to some good use. http://www.offensivest.com/books/ http://www.offensivest.com/books/ ranks English works in the Project Gutenberg corpus by vulgarity. The site desperately needs some TLC: at the least, tweaks to the methodology and a page explaining what that methodology is. I have more ideas for using the data, but I spend 90% of my time trying to get rid of the penalties. So... Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site? Yes, very much so.