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Wed Mar 27 00:03:22 UTC 2024

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trump-urges-maga-buy-203010179.html
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One more X user stated, "Trump hawking Bibles to pay his legal fees for
lying, cheating, and r----- is really the perfect culmination of the last
eight years.

JL

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 6:09 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Many YouTube creators practice self-censorship. Creators are trying to
> avoid demonetization and reduced propagation. If the YouTube algorithm
> decides that a video and/or description contains too much sex,
> violence, or other taboo material then the video is demonetized, i.e.,
> YouTube will not run advertisements adjacent to the content. In
> addition, YouTube will reduce the propagation of the content.
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 4:53 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The "seggs" phenomenon has been dubbed "algospeak," and you can read a
> > scholarly treatment of the phenomenon in this paper by Kendra Calhoun and
> > Alexia Fawcett:
> >
> > https://www.languageatinternet.org/articles/2023/calhoun
> >
> > Kendra and Alexia are also contributing as co-authors on the next
> > installment of "Among the New Words," which is all about algospeak. (This
> > is for AmSp 99.1, soon to be hitting your screens and mailboxes.)
> >
> > As for the "s--" expurgation, Yahoo News aggregated that story from an
> > outlet called The Blast (https://theblast.com/). Skimming articles on
> the
> > site, I'm seeing typical four-letter avoidance like "s--t" and "f--k,"
> > e.g.:
> >
> >
> https://theblast.com/187637/netflix-the-power-of-the-dog-sam-elliott-blasts-film-benedict-cumberbatch/
> >
> > But I'm not seeing "s--" for "sex," so that may be some new wrinkle from
> > the aggregators at Yahoo News motivated by algorithmic considerations.
> >
> > --Ben
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 4:12 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Instagram must have a strong banning policy based on text (and images
> but
> > > that's different) because it is full of folks using elisions like
> "seggs"
> > > or <one letter><emoji> or just emojis in any vaguely sensitive
> (generally
> > > s-x related, though) msg, even the captions on images, so their bot or
> > > whatever, must be able to decode those.  We can wait for Nancy F. to
> have a
> > > full overview of these language cow**rds.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM Charles C Rice <
> charles.rice at louisiana.edu
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > My son brought this to my attention recently and I've been trying to
> > > track
> > > > down the service/platform/environment that is causing it, or what/who
> > > > authors think they are avoiding with these spellings. So far I have
> seen
> > > > them on Facebook but only in the short videos that are piped in from
> > > > Instagram or YouTube. I have seen a few more on YouTube itself.
> Instgram
> > > > users--I am not one--insist there is no filter on Insta so it's not
> > > coming
> > > > from there (but I rather doubt the assumption). People have sent me
> > > > examples of s---- for shoot and d-- for die. There's a guy on YouTube
> > > > posting as DeleteLawz who uses these spellings to amplify his
> > > > policing-the-police persona. Here's an example:
> > > > https://youtube.com/shorts/UF1eMbKXPi4?si=XSwfNb8ZDsVfj96c
> > > > "cop slams man's h**d into car". The subtitles include f*ck, bl**d,
> p*gs,
> > > > d*es, and for each of those words the sound track provides only the
> first
> > > > and last sounds. He visually covers the violent act described in the
> > > title.
> > > > This example might be motivated differently from some of the other
> > > examples
> > > > of self-censoring, but it provides good examples of the general
> practice
> > > as
> > > > I've observed it.
> > > >
> > > > YahooNews presents a new twist for me because it would likely be a
> > > > platform-wide policy (or if it isn't, that would be very interesting
> as
> > > > well). As far as I know, YahooNews is an aggregator, so it might
> pull in
> > > > items that are already self-censored by another publisher.
> > > >
> > > > Clai
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
> > > > Jonathan Lighter
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2024 7:29 AM
> > > > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > > > Subject: s--
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com
> > > > %2Fentertainment%2Fadult-film-star-stormy-daniels-033004515.html
> > > >
> > > > "Daniels claimed that she accepted the money to create a paper trail
> for
> > > > her protection and also claimed that the s-- was consensual....In the
> > > > documentary, Daniels revealed why she did not reject the billionaire
> > > > mogul's request for s-- during their meeting decades ago."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > JL
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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