G, what you are asking for is not really possible. Different people from different groups, persuasions, and even geographical regions ech have thier own 'dialect' of apropriate nd inapropriate words. If you want a custom thesaurus you will have to make/modify it yourself the hard way. If i sent you one without the f-word (english) and it syn.s what if you want words like 'faggot' (aka a budle of sticks ) or nigger ( a wrong word 99% of the time ) or the d-words or s-words or b-words, ect.
Plain and simple: if you want (or need) a thesaurus that meets your guidlines then you will have to search through the full version (word-for-word ) and remove EVERY word that you feel os profain.
Good Luck!
P.S. - I hope every one who reads this is not offended whith anyof the words refferenced here. I used them with a strictly acedemic intent.
"G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Plain and simple: if you want (or need) a thesaurus that meets your guidlines then you will have to search through the full version (word-for-word ) and remove EVERY word that you feel os profain.
Good Luck!
P.S. - I hope every one who reads this is not offended whith anyof the words refferenced here. I used them with a strictly acedemic intent.
"G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 22:41 +0200, Jancs wrote:
> CitÄju "G. Roderick Singleton":
>
> > Any chance a bowlderized or cleaned up thesaurus existing now. I ask
> > because a school teacher has encountered a problem with the thesaurus
> > that is distributed where the f-word in its many forms is offered as a
> > synonym.
> >
> > Failing that how to clean up easily?
>
> I think the existance of all f-words, p-words (for Latvian) in dictionaries is
> the matter of attitude - exaggerated sensitivity to things person does not
> like. For example, in Latvia you will not find any electronic dictionary which
> would not contain basic slang (no matter commercial of free).
>
> I am n! ot pro-slangist, but think that it is not possible to hide away form such
> things - and what about some regular words having the other -slangish- meaning
> - let's make them disappear alltogether?
>
> If you are going to intruduce some censorship, then you must be ready to produce
> dictionaries which will satisfy catholics, judaists, mormons, sexual minorities,
> democrats, republicans etc. etc.
> ***
True enough but that is not what I asked. I asked whether or not there
were existing thesaures that had offensive words removed. I also asked
if there were none, was there a script, method or procedure that a user
(in this case, read dumb user) could use to clean up for use by
children. If not, can someone offer guidance that could do this task.
Thanks for your input.
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