• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    31分前

    This reminds me of the recent removal of the Enola Gay in US government history archives because LGBT+ is DEI.

    Forgetting that gay not only has multiple meanings, but only predominately referred to homosexuality in the 1980s.

    I remember looking it up as a kid. 1970s era dictionaries did not include the present definition.

  • stevles@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    3時間前

    Fun fact, Google, Google Maps and Wikipedia all existed in 2010. All they had to do was spend an entire 10 seconds, less than the time it took to suspend the account, to find out it was a genuine location.

    • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      46分前

      And when it was appealed you would think the first thing the reviewer would do is search the net. Wild that it even got that far.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    24·
    4時間前

    No way. I live in a lttle hamlet called Filthy Cumslut and the same thing happened.

  • hypeerror@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    6時間前

    So if you were having a same sex wedding would you drive there just to send out invites so that the postmark read “Ft. Gay”

    • Carl@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      34分前

      In October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words horny man.

      There are a lot of gems in the article.

    • Xeno@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      39·
      6時間前

      The word or string “ass” may be replaced by “butt”, resulting in “clbuttic” for “classic”, “clbuttroom” for “classroom”, “buttignment” for “assignment”, and “buttbuttinate” for “assassinate”.

      This is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Like gosh, I’d recommend everyone give that article a full read. I couldn’t even get mad at the stupidity. I’m bookmarking this to read again when I have a bad day.

    • GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.today
      16·
      6時間前

      I see this all the time in Elden Ring. So many players want the word “Knight” in their name but it just ends up rendering as “K***ht”. Also the substring “ho” comes up a lot and is censored.

      • thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        2·
        2時間前

        Two or three services blacklisted something in my username, Lyra Lycan. To this day I never found out what, why or which language

      • Xeno@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        2時間前

        I mean if using UTF-8 a single “character” can be twice the size of that. Depending on what counts as a character it can be even bigger. There’s no way this wouldn’t go **rribly wrong.

  • viertesauge@feddit.orgEnglish
    60·
    5時間前

    Every since then it is specificly illegal to ban residents located in fort gay from online services. Also known as Moore’s Law

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    7時間前

    Where I live, there used to be an Officer Gay in our police. He retired a while ago, but just imagine the possibilities. There was graffiti. Soo much graffiti.

    Like, this was a legitimate word, once, used for names and such.

  • Sailor Anarres@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    6時間前

    A lot of events like this not this one but a lot boil down to English centrism like that Shiitake issue or the Quebec website who went by the acronym cum.

    • Xeno@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      6時間前

      I’ve seen USians complaining about our word for black people, ignoring that calling someone black (like the color) used to be as offensive to us as the N word is to them, while our equivalent to the N word was the non-racist option. Older people who haven’t caught up with recent trends might still find referring to people as black offensive.