Re: TODO draft for round-2 "Wordlist"

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Ahmad Al-rasheedan <asr at baldi dot cc> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 23:41, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > 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?

The above words can be translated without a dictionary even.  Most are
even listed as legal words in most spell checkers (aspell/ispell).
A case in point "Marketwise" - well that is someone that is shrewd in
his business and/or in dealing with people, etc.  Not sure what to tell
ya about how to proceed, but those words listed above a legal - most
users would deem it as such.

 - Nadim


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