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10 points by keyboardJones a month ago · 4 comments

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robocat a month ago

For full list of words see:

https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/.github/scripts/bad...

Not swear words or DEI. Mostly sane substitutions e.g. fixing hyphenations and expanding apostrophes. Only oddity I thought was enforcing favor instead of favour.

Comments suggest banning "just" too.

  • Bender a month ago

    The file is called badwords.txt but that seems like a sub-optimal descriptor. It looks to be a substitution list word:replacement suggestion. Not really a ban.

    Then from [1]

        print STDERR  "$f:$l:$c: error: found bad word \"$w\"\n";
        printf STDERR " %4d | %s\n", $l, $in;
                    printf STDERR "      | %*s^%s\n", length($p), " ",
                        "~" x (length($w)-1);
        printf STDERR " maybe use \"%s\" instead?\n", $alt{$w};
    
    [1] - https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/.github/scripts/bad...
DemocracyFTW2 a month ago

Well I guess that's a rephrase using an alternative word sensible thing to do.

anigbrowl a month ago

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