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Weasel Words: Now Automated!
Tags: banned words, computers, doomed, www
Current Music: Clan of Xymox -- No Words ♬
12 Responses:
Hah, that's awesome. I was just reading this morning about a couple of shell scripts to correct weasel words and passive voice and wondering how long until that sort of thing got baked into a Cocoa app.
We should lock these two programs in a cage and make them fight.
Sorry, I mean, one should give these programs an opportunity to constructively resolve their differences.
I am in disagreement with you.
No, I am afraid that I may be in disagreement with you.
Actually, I believe I might have a higher degree of disagreement in this instance.
I engaged in copulatory activities with your mother.
Based on that remark, I plan to disconnect teeth from your gumline using a tightened hand.
Unless it replaces the word "utilize" with "use", it is woefully incomplete.
Didn't Eudora have this built-in way back in the '90s? I seem to distinctly remember it having a little "ice cube" somewhere in the UI, and if it thought you were being uncouth in your use of language, it'd turn into a number of chilli peppers.
Since this was installed on school computers, it became a game to get as many chillis as possible to appear without resorting to swearwords, which would peg it instantly.
That was Eudora MoodWatch. The "white paper" that came with it makes me laugh for a variety of reasons.
Words are loaded emotional weapons.
Watch your language, mister.
or you let the terrorists win!
How would it handle "please choke on a bucket of cocks"?
I was wondering what it would do with witty putdowns like Groucho Marx's "I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that."