1. Re: Profane
- Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM>
Jun 05, 1998
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Last edited Jun 06, 1998
At 04:25 PM 6/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Irv wrote:
>
>>I subscribe to this list to discuss *programming* languages.
>>I respectfully suggest to anyone who has problems with
>>Ralf's English: please continue the discussion in Dutch.
>>I'll get it translated - that should be good for a few
>>laughs.
>
>Great! I couldn't find the "English to Dutch" option at AltaVista
translation page. Maybe you'll have more success translating sarcasm.
>
>David "arrogant facist" Cuny
From News of the Weird:
* In March, Rogers, Ark., software developer Rick Bray introduced
his TVGuardian sound monitor, which silences offensive words in
television dialogue and prints tamer substitutes as captions on the
screen. Bray expanded George Carlin's "seven words you can't
say" to about 100, and says his device can analyze surrounding
dialogue so that, for example, "God" will be muted only when used
irreverently. (An earlier version of the software captioned "Dick
Van Dyke" as "jerk Van gay.")
Maybe we need this software?
Irv
