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thethirdone
on Oct 3, 2022
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Processing 40 TB of code from ~10M projects with a...
Does anyone know why "pawn" is considered an offensive word? It seems likely it ranks highly on the offensive word list because of chess engines.
ok_dad
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I also noticed "knob" and "xxx" near the top of that list (and others) for which I understand why they are considered "offensive" in some contexts, but in code those are quite non-offensive (unless, of course, the context is offensive, haha).
yaddaor
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Phonetically it sounds like "porn".
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