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Consbreastution and Buttbuttination

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Monday, August 11, 2008
15 years ago21,138 views

What is consbreastution and buttbuttination? They're a way adult filters, automatically replacing one word with another word considered more innocent, can go wrong:

http://www.google.com/search?q=consbreastution – 1,340 results
http://www.google.com/search?q=buttbuttination – 311 results*

*Likely, not all results are actual filters gone wrong, but also people talking about filters going wrong... like the people on Reddit, where I saw this: http://www.reddit.com/comments/6vshn/how_not_to_do_obscenity_filtering/

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Ah, the clbuttic mistake with word filters :P

Once on an MSN profile (Back in the days when Google was only a search engine) it stopped me from entering "Simpsons Hit and Run" as a game........ I'll let you work it out

Johnny [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

Erm I can't work it out?

aklsjn [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

simpson*s hit* and run

Chris [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

I used to play this online game and they introduced a swear filter. It didn't replace words, it just wouldn't let you say them.

Along with literally thousands of legitimate words being banned, they've also added some that make no sense whatsoever. For example, you can't say "pigs" or "c8".

Wesley [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

Actually, c8 is a roundabout way of expressing the Korean expletive 'siphal' / 'sipal', which translates to 'fucking' in English. Eight in Korean is 'pal', so c8 = 'ci-pal'. Looks like the online game has quite a few Korean members playing.

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