No seriously!
I'm writing a word game for PC which contains a dictionary of some 270,000 words.
Now I *could* go through the list manually and remove every word I find offensive, but that'd take ages. I need to remove swear words, offensive words, racist words, even certain slang words would have to be flagged as 'offensive'.
It would be much faster if I could run a comparison between my own dictionary, and a dictionary of offensive words that need to be removed - we're talking the difference between weeks, and minutes. Plus by doing it manually there's always the potential to miss something.
Thing is, I'm having trouble finding a list of offensive words to use.
I'm also unclear as to where to draw the line as to what is acceptable, and what isn't. For instance, "cock" would be valid as it can be used in a non-offensive context. But what about "penis"? Offensive?
I should point out at this stage that my game only accepts words that the user selects. It doesn't suggest words so there will never be the possibility of it saying "you could have **** for 900pts!"
Anyhoo... if anybody knows where I can acquire a fairly extensive list of offensive words/terms, I'd be grateful.
I'm writing a word game for PC which contains a dictionary of some 270,000 words.
Now I *could* go through the list manually and remove every word I find offensive, but that'd take ages. I need to remove swear words, offensive words, racist words, even certain slang words would have to be flagged as 'offensive'.
It would be much faster if I could run a comparison between my own dictionary, and a dictionary of offensive words that need to be removed - we're talking the difference between weeks, and minutes. Plus by doing it manually there's always the potential to miss something.
Thing is, I'm having trouble finding a list of offensive words to use.
I'm also unclear as to where to draw the line as to what is acceptable, and what isn't. For instance, "cock" would be valid as it can be used in a non-offensive context. But what about "penis"? Offensive?
I should point out at this stage that my game only accepts words that the user selects. It doesn't suggest words so there will never be the possibility of it saying "you could have **** for 900pts!"
Anyhoo... if anybody knows where I can acquire a fairly extensive list of offensive words/terms, I'd be grateful.