Re:World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any...
by DharmaPolice on Thursday December 16, 2021 @07:02AM
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I think we should be discouraging that kind of self-censorship for all but the worst words. Not only do people start to use it for ridiculous political posturing (e.g. "wmen" or "gmers") but it just makes what you're write ever so slightly harder to understand. And for what benefit?
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Re:World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any...
by DeusExMachina on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:43AM
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How is the original comment harder to understand?
If there is one freedom people have is to control their language, wether to avoid certain words or to utter words that other find silly.
Re:World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any...
by DharmaPolice on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:54AM
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Censored words are much more likely to be ambiguous. I wasn't referring to that specific example but now you mention it, p_n_s does take a fraction longer to understand than penis.
And no-one is talking about taking away people's freedom. You can write all your emails in all caps if you want, but we can discourage people from doing that.
Re:World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any...
by philovivero on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:43AM
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In a previous sentence they mentioned TTP, then they mentioned P-n-s. I thought this was another acronym of sorts. Like "Posts not sexy" or whatever. I spent a couple seconds to figure out what it meant, failed, and just moved on.
Figured out what it was supposed to mean from the replies.