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I made this comment about a year ago: https://midwest.social/comment/6247683
"A friend of mine is a non-native English speaker. He teaches at an elementary school and works with ‘English as a second language’ students. He casually mentioned that he always tells his students to take a ‘horse bath’ in the bathroom sink after recess if needed. He was traumatized when I told him that he’d misheard that phrase for his entire adult life."
So he wanted to tell them to clean up their junk, but mixed up the phrase?
He thought a "horse bath" was just a quick rinse off in the sink. He was inadvertently teaching ESL elementary school kids the phrase "whore's bath" which, while it is technically just a quick rinse in the sink, there is definitely different connotation.
Bird bath, sparrow bath, crow bath. Terms in some Indian languages for that.
Wow—please tell us which translations you’re referring to
Translation of terms/phrases for 'quick rinse off' in Marathi or Hindi
What's the real phrase?
People are trying to post the answer and it's getting censored lol. The term is "core's bath," but replace the "c" with "wh".
Lemmy.ml censors the word "whore"???
What a bunch of pricks
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/utils/src/utils/slurs.rs#L78
Line 78 has the regex for Lemmy's profanity filter. The .ml instance has it enabled, .world and most others I've seen do not.
I'm quite impressed by the elaborate regex for the n word
ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?I mean, I can kinda understand it - socialists/communists/anarchists generally prefer 'sex worker', because 'whore' has some pretty terrible connotations due to being used as a slur for so long.
But still, censoring it instead of just deleting/blocking the handful of pricks who still say it as an insult seems... well, par for the course for .ml tbh
I don't understand it at all when it's not nearly as bad as some of the shit that gets said on there.
Pretty pathetic that they feel the need to censor words
It isn't censored on most instances.
#JustDotMLProblems
"Whore bath" is how I've heard it
Whores bath. It’s when you hit up the bathroom to freshen your junk before you get busy
Whore's bath.
Bruh .ml censores the urls too
Wow, that's insanity. I don't particularly like the word, but come on.
The censor hits any substring, rather than trying to heuristically guess whether the substring is being used as a slur or not, it assumes users are smart enough to pick up on the context.
pathetic ass instance