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Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? by shrikant on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:23AM (#30071481)
> [...] an English person says "can I burn a fag" and an American person believes they are casually thinking about hurting a gay man.

FYI, it's combination of difficult-to-discern keming with the default font on HN, and your unfamiliarity with the phrase, but it's actually "BUM A FAG" and not "BURN A FAG".

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Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? by userbinator on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:39PM (#30077701)
It's interesting to see so many people thought it was "burn" --- perhaps the reference to cigarettes primed the "mental autocorrect" in the wrong direction.
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Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? by simiones on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:44AM (#30074033)
Yes, you're right, thanks for correcting that!

Incidentally, did you intentionally write keming instead of kerning?

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Re:Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? by shrikant on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:58AM (#30074281)
Yes :) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming
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