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My phone (Android 4, CM 11) swipe input is weird when it comes to profanity. So, there are three levels: its first guess for your word, two alternates to the side, and then a list you can bring up. 'suck', 'sucking', 'shit', and 'dick' will never appear in the first two levels, even if I go slowly and letter by letter -- 'shi' turns into 'shot', with 'shirt' and 'shoot' as alternates. Peter thinks it's a probability weight thing; I figure it's hardwired, with a short list of words being simply barred from your being able to input them too quickly (i.e. accidentally.)
But 'fuck', 'fucking', and 'fucker' I can enter quite easily. 'cunt' too. And 'pussy', with a bit of care (it's hard to swipe a double letter.)
Peter thinks it's also probabilities weighted by how you've used the phone, but I use 'suck' and 'sucking' in texts far more than any of the others... I've probably never tried to swipe 'cunt' before.
My thought for a while was that maybe fuck* weren't in the dictionary at all, until I added them, so wouldn't be barred, but I checked my personal word list and nope, they're not there.
So I dunno. Maybe it's more of an "accidentally unprofessional" filter, like words on the edge of acceptability are barred so you don't tell your boss how much something sucks, but the designers figured if you want to go full vulgar you knew what you were doing. Not how I'd do things.... and no, I don't see a profanity filter I might have turned off.
Wait, I'm wrong! I just checked again, and yes, Android Keyboard has a "block offensive words" option which is off, so I probably did that at some point... and I'm *still* not getting 'suck' or 'shit' as choices above the third level.
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Totally unrelatedly, I finally have Japanese input working on my laptop! 日本語よ! I'd tried UIM a while back, per the Arch Linux default recommendation, but it didn't work. Then I tried SCIM a few days ago, and it seemed to not work either, but later I found myself typing in Japanese suddenly. Ctrl-Space turns it on, Ctrl-Shift cycles through modes (Anthy [Japanese], Unicode, English/European [which doesn't seem to do anything]. I should look into configuring that, because I need Ctrl-Shift-C and -V to copy and past from/to my Terminator terminal, so there's an annoying conflict there. Still, woo!
Is this more than a toy, given my weak Japanese skills? Slightly: online dictionaries tend to work best with Japanese input, not romaji, so now I can actually use them. And I've started studying it again, so that helps.
But 'fuck', 'fucking', and 'fucker' I can enter quite easily. 'cunt' too. And 'pussy', with a bit of care (it's hard to swipe a double letter.)
Peter thinks it's also probabilities weighted by how you've used the phone, but I use 'suck' and 'sucking' in texts far more than any of the others... I've probably never tried to swipe 'cunt' before.
My thought for a while was that maybe fuck* weren't in the dictionary at all, until I added them, so wouldn't be barred, but I checked my personal word list and nope, they're not there.
So I dunno. Maybe it's more of an "accidentally unprofessional" filter, like words on the edge of acceptability are barred so you don't tell your boss how much something sucks, but the designers figured if you want to go full vulgar you knew what you were doing. Not how I'd do things.... and no, I don't see a profanity filter I might have turned off.
Wait, I'm wrong! I just checked again, and yes, Android Keyboard has a "block offensive words" option which is off, so I probably did that at some point... and I'm *still* not getting 'suck' or 'shit' as choices above the third level.
***
Totally unrelatedly, I finally have Japanese input working on my laptop! 日本語よ! I'd tried UIM a while back, per the Arch Linux default recommendation, but it didn't work. Then I tried SCIM a few days ago, and it seemed to not work either, but later I found myself typing in Japanese suddenly. Ctrl-Space turns it on, Ctrl-Shift cycles through modes (Anthy [Japanese], Unicode, English/European [which doesn't seem to do anything]. I should look into configuring that, because I need Ctrl-Shift-C and -V to copy and past from/to my Terminator terminal, so there's an annoying conflict there. Still, woo!
Is this more than a toy, given my weak Japanese skills? Slightly: online dictionaries tend to work best with Japanese input, not romaji, so now I can actually use them. And I've started studying it again, so that helps.