Diseases are used for swearing in Dutch – but how does that work? @sesquiotic analyses the idiom "sjouw me de tering" in a new post on the Strong Language blog:
Unapologetic #Swiftie that I am (hi, it's me...), Melanie and I are on a track-a-day walk through #TTPD. More later re: #TaylorSwift's ever striking lyricism, but #DownBad reminds me of what I wrote @OFBMag after one of my all time favorite albums, #folklore: the f-bombs only detract and are the clean version shows they aren't even necessary. #profanity#FoulLanguagehttps://ofb.biz/sa882
"The parcel delivery firm uses artificial intelligence (AI) in its online chat to answer queries, in addition to human operators.
But a new update caused it to behave unexpectedly, including swearing and criticising the company.
DPD said it had disabled the part of the chatbot that was responsible, and it was updating its system as a result."
I have all my fiction in plain text files, and I write on a #MEWNIX system (my cat knows this), so it's very easy to search the text of Without Bloodshed for a keyword with grep and pipe the output to wc -l to get a count:
shit: 54
piss: 7
fuck: 80
cunt: 0
cocksucker: 0
motherfucker: 3
tits: 1
In addition to George Carlin's classic seven dirty words, here are a few more.
Web-based messaging clients had to deal with the fact that web-applications only have one window, and then designed their UI around this limitation.
Now desktop message clients are copying the UI design (because it's the most popular one). They're copying over all the limitations of clients designed for a more restricted target.
@whynothugo
I am very happy with #profanity but as #TUI application it also uses only one window but the keyboard driven UI is pretty good for a chat application as you don't have to change between mouse and keyboard all the time.
Am I the only one who wants to get tattoos of mathematical formulas and diagrams just so I can stop looking them up.. maybe a few other things like a ruler or electronic parts sizing... useful things :)
REGINA: Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!
GRETCHEN: Don't tell me what to do, bitch! I'm Gretchen Fucking Wieners! Ain't none a y'all have the power to hide my quirky glory under a bushel basket.
If I say that guy complimenting her was fetch, you better believe it was fetch as fucking balls!
(from the rejected script for 'Gretchen Wieners Excelsior! : a Mean Girls Story')
Probably outdated, even for a terminal application, but it's very lightweight and allows multiple accounts and protocol. And it behaves just like a GUI app - except that the windows are drawn in the terminal!
Very nice now that I'm hosting my own #XMPP server, and don't need OMEMO to chat locally anymore
@jr well, if anything, #Profanity does not support multiple XMPP accounts, so that's that... but yeah, I agree, it has a much more familiar interface, and it has modern OMEMO support.
I know I probably should use something more modern, but Pidgin/Finch have a special place in my heart. It was the first messenger I used in Linux after I switched, and brings back lots of nostalgia
@debacle I beg to differ here. Even if we can go with the "taco bell paradigm" and use what the OS offers us to "work around" the problem, lots of other TUI chat programs already do multiple accounts, at no cost to performance. Plus, you lose a pane / window in a multiplexer doing so. Not very nice.
Weechat and irssi (the program that inspired #Profanity in first place) already do this. I was surprised to realize Profanity didn't have this!
A man with long hair and beard talking into a camera inside his home, a tiktok video with tiktok watermark and username (@pearlmania500) on the side, and slightly "misunderstood" captions (curse words replaced by words that don't trigger moderation).
@SallyStrange@mzedp honestly? I get that’s it’s funny for hearing folks, but for D/deaf/Hard of Hearing folks who rely on captions, substituting different words for profanity is infantalizing and also confusing.
Hello! We're a bunch of linguists, lexicographers, authors and editors who enjoy swearing and writing about swearing on Strong Language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/
Interested in the linguistics and culture of swearing, profanity, taboo language, etc.
Please welcome @stronglang to Mastodon! It's a sweary account about swearing – the linguistics and culture of strong language
The group blog (which I co-founded in 2014) is still active and is well worth a rummage for anyone interested in profanity, obscenity, and the like: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/