On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 17:31 -0800, Walter Wojcik wrote: > 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!
Thanks Walter. The list stripped the attachment. Could you please send it to me off-list? That way I can send it on. Perhaps the project could host your set as a downloadable option. I would be pleased to point users to these in the user guide or even host them on the doc project. Whichever. Keep in mind, that I am looking to have a set suitable for children. For myself, I prefer the regular set as it more inclusive and useful for writing. > > 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: > > Citēju "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. > -- > PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. > OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead > http://documentation.openoffice.org/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > "Knowledge is power, Those who have it must share with those who > don't" > > -Walter Wojcik > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
