Re: TODO draft for round-2 "Wordlist"

[Ahmad Al-rasheedan <asr at baldi dot cc>]

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 23:41, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> I think you are a bit premature in your thinking about release (it will
> happen inshalla soon enough).  There really are 3 stages ;-)

Inshallah.

>
>  1. Translate all words - mark some as fuzzy and/or "bad"
>  2. Inspect all fuzzy and bad words and make final collective decision
>     on words (ie. which should be completely excluded).
>  3. Remove/set aside "bad" words
>  4. RELEASE 1.0
>
> We need to be extra careful about removing legal words, currently in the
> "bad_words" file there are the following legal words that should be put
> back (in alphabetical order),
>
>  Macrosimulation
>  Macrosocioeconomic
>  Macing
>  Make-amends-for
>  Malconduct
>  March-in
>  March-off
>  March-through
>  Marchings-through
>  Marketwise
>  Martials
>  Matchers

I took 4 words at random from the above and checked against onelook 
and didn't get any return.
 
>
> I'm not sure what is the best way to go about getting agreement on bad
> words, but I'm thinking that at least 2 people should agree on their
> "badness" :-) to form that collective opinion.

Nadim, I guess if onelook failed to retrieve a def. for a word then it is kina
safe to deem it bad. No?

>
> BTW: for Arabic please post using UTF-8 (and _not_ CP-1256)

Inshallah I will fix it.
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