{"id":242,"date":"2009-02-09T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/no-ducking-way\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:21:47","slug":"no-ducking-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/no-ducking-way\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ducking Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally<\/em> found an example of, someone intentionally typing “ducking” on their iPhone<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Plotting routes to meetings based on who I’m currently ducking<\/strong>. It’s good for exercise. Also that time iPhone was correct- I meant ducking<\/strong><\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously we can’t have a spellchecker suggesting<\/em> profanity. But is it really so wrong to just leave it alone? Can we trust that if someone says something that strongly they really meant it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Word 2008 seems to try, bless it’s heart. It won’t suggest or correct, “Mike Lee<\/a>” (at least when it’s written as two words).<\/p>\n

But it still can’t stand one<\/em> of the heavy seven<\/a> (original MP3<\/a>). Word gives it the scarlet underline. That strikes me as odd. I wish I knew the story behind it. Is it actually a dangerously common typo? Is it statistically more taboo? Did someone just make a Puritan judgement call, and decide people wanted<\/em> to be corrected<\/em> for writing it? (UPDATE 2009-11-18: apparently it is<\/em> the worst swear word in the World<\/a>, at least according to that cute story.)<\/p>\n

Ask yourself, are obscenity filters a Bad Idea, or an Incredibly Intercoursing Bad Idea?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally found an example of, someone intentionally typing “ducking” on their iPhone, Plotting routes to meetings based on who I’m currently ducking. It’s good for exercise. Also that time iPhone was correct- I meant ducking. Obviously we can’t have a spellchecker suggesting profanity. But is it really so wrong to just leave it alone? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1],"tags":[170,64,616,96,341,338],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-quotes","category-uncategorized","tag-diction","tag-failure","tag-iphone","tag-microsoft","tag-profanity","tag-spell-checkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}