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Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? by pjc50 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @04:30AM (#30069965)
Br.Eng. has had plenty of experience evolving under censorship, it's where our great tradition of innuendo comes from. I'm thinking particularly of Polari (Roma-influenced gay slang), and how Kenneth Williams got an entire comedy show packed with man-on-man innuendo to be broadcast regularly on national radio in the middle of the afternoon (Round the Horne). At a time when homosexuality was illegal.

Or try explaining panto to Americans. Or even Allo Allo, a show which would .. definitely not be made nowadays.

I've seen false positives referred to as the "Scunthorpe problem". Someone on the internet has a nice map of filthy-sounding real UK place names ...

Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? by twic on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:30AM (#30070651)
> I've seen false positives referred to as the "Scunthorpe problem". Someone on the internet has a nice map of filthy-sounding real UK place names ...

There's a reason Essex University had to register sx.ac.uk as an alternative domain name.

Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? by vintermann on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:47AM (#30070394)
Interesting! "Polare" is slang for buddy in Swedish. Maybe it is a Romani loanword?