Not sure if this is the right place, but I’ve seen this for the 3rd removed now.
Literally couldn’t use the word in the title … got a red pop-up that said “slur”.
It’s the 3rd word (singular) in the famous newspaper from New York …
UPDATE: seems to be an issue with ani.social, thanks for all the feedback!
I wonder if someone is learning a lesson about regexes on that instance. It would be very weird to replace the string ‘time’ on its own.
Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I remember back in the early web days I was trying to make a post on a forum with something about Dick Van Dyke, getting a double-whammy name block. He already unfamiliar to the younger people even back then, so none of my attempts to explain who I was talking about worked. I couldn’t even say what show he starred in for them to look up, since it was also called The Dick van Dyke Show.
Thanks so much, I knew there was some kind of term of concept for that but couldn’t find it!
Tom Scott has a video on it
I always called it the buttbuttination (of Lincoln) problem, heh.
It’s a clbuttic mistake.
But what’s the slur they’re hunting if they catch “time”? Is it tim, ime, ti, me or something else?
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No idea and not sure if it’s right. They could be attempting to match something across whitespace or line breaks and gotten greedy. Or maybe it is just a string match and not regex and they pasted the wrong string, but that still feels weird.
Actually already found out a reasonable candidate. Someone else pointed out that ti-me in Japanese is a slur.