Posted on 09/03/2008 9:29:32 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution.
Not an extract from an essay by a particularly poor history student, but a selection of the nonsense phrases created by automatic software designed to remove offensive words from articles posted on the internet.
The phenomena, known as “The Clbuttic Mistake” after a mangling of the word “classic” that is believed to be the first identified instance of the problem, can be found on tens of thousands of websites.
The error is caused by poorly programmed anti-obscenity filters – similar to spell checkers – that automatically replace words considered rude or offensive with more acceptable variants. “Butt” replaces “ass”, “breast” is substituted for “tit”, and so on.
Rudimentary versions of this software do not just replace obscene words, but also alter longer words which contain banned letter combinations, so "assassination" becomes "buttbuttination", "passenger" becomes "pbuttenger", and "passerby" becomes "pbutterby".
The problem is fairly widespread; Google searches turn up 3,810 results for “clbuttic”, 5,120 for “consbreastution”, and 1,450 for “Buttociated Press”, a corruption of the US news agency the Associated Press. Perhaps the most celebrated instance of the Clbuttic Mistake comes in an article currently visible on the website jucee.org .
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The American Family Association had programmed its filter to replace the word “gay” with “homosexual”, causing an article about sprinter Tyson Gay’s triumph at the US Olympic trials to begin: “Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has." Further on in the piece the runner was referred to as “the 25-year-old Homosexual.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Get orev hre.
Quick! Sombody alert Jerk van Lesbian.
[that automatically replace words considered rude or offensive with more acceptable variants. “Butt” replaces “ass”, “breast” is substituted for “tit”, and so on.]
I’ll go against the flow here and say I almost wish this would happen on FR. In the past year I have seen more crude words posted than in my past 8 years.
A lot of it by newer ‘Freepers’ who may have migrated from sites like D.U. or some such.
Free speech doesn’t have to be crude.
Now, if only we had a news filter for the AP which would replace ‘ociated’ with ‘hole’ so it would more accurately fit them.....
“buttbuttinated sounds like a particularly humiliating way to die...”
Hancock!
But please leave Penis Armey out of this.
Thanks!!! With all the wretched attacks on a good woman and her family over the past few days, it’s nice to find something to laugh about.
Whoever programmed these filters was a real jackbutt. He should be sent to a mental insbreastution.
Couldn't agree more.
He explained that he was writing a report on the subject, "The report will be out around March and then we'll know just how many clbuttic works have been registered by overseas companies."
[Couldn’t agree more.]
Ahh, thank you Albion! Sometimes I feel like a misfit here, lol.
The subsbreastutions seem more obscene than the original words to me...
“Death by bongo-bongo!”
I always wondered exactly how that would have worked on Bender...
I’m pinging cobra to this one LOL~
"Buttertion isn't truth."
:^)
Ass if I say butt does it come out ass?
You are such a buttet to this forum. LOL!
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