By Kieron Gillen on December 9th, 2008 at 9:43 am.
I noticed this up on Friday over at Qt3 on Friday. And it’s my favourite profanity-based coding thing since that list of porn-sites got onto B-17 all those years back. Basically, going through ATV-racer Pure‘s file structure, gamers have found an entire folder full with extensive lists of swearing. In several languages. What’s up? Well, it appears to be the word-filters for the game (A Qt3 poster claims it’s Pure-publisher Disney’s standard one). I suspect for an age-rating-3-and-over game, this wasn’t exactly planned.
It’s quite the list. And here’s some of our favourites. NSFW, clearly.
beastial
This is primarily just cracking down on extravagant adjective abuse and bad spelling.
chick2chick
chick4chick
chickforchick
chickonchick
chicks2chicks
chicks4chicks
chicksforchicks
chicksonchicks
chickstochicks
chicktochick
I just find lists like this intrinsically funny.
slattern
Just in case your gran gets online and starts trash-talking strangers.
copulated
copulates
copulating
copulation
And to cut off the mouthy biologists.
fornicate
fornicates
fornicating
fornication
And the mouthy fundamentalist Christians.
dildoe
And the general illiterate. Though that’s kinda understandable.
domination
What… I’m not allowed to win repeatedly against a lesser player? I don’t understand.
hairpies
With my terrible comprehension, whilst scanning the list I thought this read “Harpies”. Poor Greek Mythic creatures, thought I.
nymph
Actually, maybe it is cracking down against mythology.
pen15
John’s proudest moment is when he made someone join the PEN 15 club over the internet. As it should be.
scheiss
scheisse
I like that the English list finds time to crack down on German swearing.
Loads more, obvious, including some we had to look up because American swearing is strange and underdeveloped compared to the mother tongue. Generally speaking, you suspect the list was pushed up to full size by someone clicking through Urban Dictionary and selecting words at random.
Of course, we can’t understand the foreign ones, so RPS’ overseas contingent should feel free to point out their own. Er… with some asterisks, because they’ll turn up in the comments thread to the right and we don’t want RPS to become Gaming’s hotbed for non-English-profanity.
09/12/2008 at 09:47 Meat Circus says:
“Gerbiling” is bad?
Awww. ATV racing ain’t ATV racing unless you do it with a small mammal up your arse. :((((((
09/12/2008 at 09:48 Dan says:
Dildoe sounds rather exotic. Some new deer?
09/12/2008 at 09:54 pepper says:
Guys, they put Asielzoeker in the Dutch list, which are people that try to get asylum in a foreign country, if I translated it right to english. And allochtoon, which is a acronym for people that have a foreign identity, or have parent that aren’t Dutch. So it looks like the list itself is slighty skewed and doesnt want people to discuss politics!
09/12/2008 at 10:04 Malagate says:
@Pepper, or it’s a list that wants to exclude the Dutch equivalent of Daily Mail readers, no better way to shut them up than to not let them talk about Asylum Seekers.
Hairpies? That just makes me think of what pies Sweeny Todd would make if he didn’t murder anyone but just used the clippings. Less demonic but harder to make money from, as people are delicious according to the story right?
09/12/2008 at 10:05 Kieron Gillen says:
Meat: They take away all our fun :(
KG
09/12/2008 at 10:05 espy says:
I am not going to google “zipperheads”, no I won’t.
09/12/2008 at 10:11 qrter says:
Well, yes, “asielzoeker” is the Dutch word for “asylum seeker” and “allochtoon” is the word for someone who wasn’t born here (as opposed to “autochtoon”, which is when you were indeed born here).
To be fair, people who choose tags like that generally aren’t really interested in ‘discussing politics’.. ;)
Looking at the Dutch list I’m mystified by the inclusion of “bitchklap”, which is a strange, literal half-translation of “bitchslap” (guess which half!), but “bitchslap” itself isn’t included. You’d think the English list would have that one, maybe that’s why it isn’t included, but the Dutch list does have a couple of pure English words and their Dutch mongrel versions (“motherfucker” becomes “moddurfokker”, for example).
09/12/2008 at 10:18 pepper says:
@qrter But still, its definitely an odd list, I would never have included some of those words. Heck, some of those words i didnt even know, or that they could be connected in those ways, maby i should print it out so i always have a list with original swearwords on hand!
09/12/2008 at 10:26 Sucram says:
The same thing happened to the BBC when they released an AIR app for the olympics. Their list also had a few gems.
09/12/2008 at 10:29 duel90 says:
haha, they didnt include Bollocks
09/12/2008 at 10:34 pepper says:
Thats Bollocks!!
09/12/2008 at 10:36 Tei says:
clbuttic error
09/12/2008 at 10:41 phuzz says:
New RPS compo: Which of your favorite sweary words didn’t make it?
And for some reason they’ve missed out the most offensive word in the known galaxy……
Belgium
09/12/2008 at 10:44 BC says:
Gays and beavers don’t exist in Disneyland, under any context presumably.
09/12/2008 at 10:52 Tei says:
What I don’t understand Is why people make a problem about this.
I like free speech, and I hate to have a filter on a program, for childrens or other people. Childrens also have free speech (I suppose).
Now, there as be a way to make a filter, If you want a filter. So has to be implemented somehow. And a simple text file could be a good way to store the date.
So, why this “OMGZ UR USIGN TEXT/PLAIN 4 STORE BAD WORD5!!ONNNENENENE” ?.
If you don’t like bad words, don’t look into the files of a program with a blacklist style filter for it.
09/12/2008 at 10:56 Gap Gen says:
I guess some words for asylum seekers might be borderline racial slurs, so companies err on the side of caution. Except people studying electrochemistry, who err on the side of cation.
09/12/2008 at 11:11 StormTec says:
Tei: I’m looking at the comments thus far, and the only person making a big deal out of anything appears to be you. I see everyone else taking the piss…
09/12/2008 at 11:12 Steve says:
My two favourates from this list have to be lovehole and .com
09/12/2008 at 11:17 Ginger Yellow says:
The best thing about this story is that by the logic established by the ESRB and the US legal system over Hot Coffee, the fact that you can find this content on the disc means the game should have an M rating. Even though its purpose is to prevent people playing the game from encountering the objectionable content in the first place and ensure an ‘E’ rating.
09/12/2008 at 11:24 Skurmedel says:
I didn’t find any swedish ones, although I did find some that looked danish. Couldn’t find the norwegian “pult”. Some of the english ones work well in nordic languages though, like “anal” and “phallous”.
09/12/2008 at 11:41 Arnulf says:
Funny. Bollocks is missing. :)
Couldn’t find Arschloch, Sackgesicht and Hurensohn. I thought, german swearwords were included?
09/12/2008 at 11:42 Arnulf says:
Ah yes! Why is .com banned? Seriously I’m scratching my head here.
09/12/2008 at 11:50 Stense says:
I say just block the entire dictionary and put a stop to all this filth. To think that someone may actually use (and forgive me for such an outburst here) the word ‘nude’ or even ‘underwear’… disgusting.
09/12/2008 at 11:55 Kangarootoo says:
I notice the words bisexual and homosexual appear on the banned list, but hetrosexual doesn’t. How very DisneyWorldOrder. I’m surprised “single mother” isn’t on there too.
09/12/2008 at 11:57 Meat Circus says:
Disney don’t want us LOLGAYS playing their games.
Heaven forbid.
09/12/2008 at 11:59 Bobsy says:
.com is banned to prevent people advertising websites that could fill naive folks computers with spyware and viruses. Or links to porn.
09/12/2008 at 12:03 Matt Kemp says:
Arnulf: My guess is it’s so you can’t send links to dodgy websites for people. (By the way, visit my fave website, kiddycatcher.com!)
09/12/2008 at 12:24 Tei says:
Notes:
Engllish_USA vs English_UK
The USA version seems the UK version with stuff added.
All women2women is added. (and guys2.. teen2.. etc..)
The spanking, voyeus, slaves, rump,enema.. etc.
The english virgin version is “Virgin”, as in “The Virgin”. Maybe theres only one in UK.
This is corrected for the USA version where is “virgin”… as seems theres more than one virgin.
09/12/2008 at 12:41 AbyssUK says:
2girls1cup didn’t make the list….
09/12/2008 at 12:43 Rei Onryou says:
I see the list had boobs, but not breasts nor moobs. How did they not think of that? Time to pirate this and go online with the name moobs.co.uk! I’ll be the coolest person evar!!one!!11!?1
To be honest, after Hot Coffee, I don’t see why they didn’t store these like passwords, rather than plaintext. Only a matter of time until the Dail Mail gets this pulled and given an Adult Only rating along with all other Disney games. I feel sorry for those Kingdom Heart fans (not really).
Tepid Watery Tea FTL…
09/12/2008 at 12:46 perilisk says:
“I notice the words bisexual and homosexual appear on the banned list, but hetrosexual doesn’t. How very DisneyWorldOrder.”
Weird, when I was growing up Disney was boycotted by Christian fundamentalists for providing marriage benefits to same sex partners. It was less common for a company to do that at the time, of course.
09/12/2008 at 12:48 Calabi says:
They should’ve just banned all words and used a happy face and a sad face for the kiddies to communicate.
With things like this you’ll end up with language diverting seemingly innocent words ending up meaning something else.
I predict by 2030 for all words to mean something filthy, people will be too embarrassed to speak. All communication will cease, and it will be all disneys fault.
09/12/2008 at 13:51 Senethro says:
Calabi, then all the griefers would spam sad face all the time.
In the DisneyWorldOrder happy face is mandatory, citizen.
09/12/2008 at 13:54 Yhancik says:
The French list looks quite similar to the English ones – I’m still amazed by the number of digestion related words in there, including sphincter and mixion… why not include the ascending colon, I ask you.
But the interesting thing is that there are many ambiguous words that can indeed be “boo-mean”, but are also totally harmless.
“bande” is a strip, a tape or a bandage although it could be about the filling of the corpora cavernosa
“blaireau” is a badger
“bridé” just means slanting (eyes) – thus can refer to asian people…. / it can also mean throttled down
“bronzé” means “tanned” :|
“cochon” means “pig” (no rats though)
“Gogol” is a famous russian writer (of course RPS knows him). Or refers to mongoloïds.
“mouille” & “mouiller” are “wet” and “to wet”………
“nœud” is a knot or some sexual metaphor
“pédale” is a pedal or a guy who really really like other guys
“pipe” is a pipe or what the greek refered as “playing the flute”
“raboter” means “plane down”
“ramoner” is to sweep (a chimney)
“sale” just means dirty – and is used a bit like “you …” in swearing
“sauter” is “to jump”although it can refer to the sexual intercourse
“tirer” is “to pull”
the most hilarious one is “tafiole géante”
“hell” or “lucifer” look very outdated, don’t they?
also, what about “condom” ? can’t we promote safe sex now ?
09/12/2008 at 14:01 mcw says:
The german list contains “communist pig” (Kommunistensau), it seems kind of random.
09/12/2008 at 14:01 Ergates says:
Even just ROT13′d it to avoid getin
I to like the thought that there is someone at Disney who’s job it is to sit there all day and just create lists of naughty words. Just imagine the conversations they must have in the office “Should Gangbang be hyphenated? What about cock-ring?”
09/12/2008 at 14:04 Schtee says:
Relevant ban-this-filthery: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1092613/Mothers-fury-Nintendo-Scrabble-game-taught-son-swear-words.html
09/12/2008 at 14:09 Lunaran says:
Dancing chick to chiiiiick …
09/12/2008 at 14:14 Jonas says:
Transparently a case of a really bored translator.
09/12/2008 at 14:15 Man Raised By Puffins says:
Disney hates Scouts. I approve!
09/12/2008 at 14:23 Ginger Yellow says:
From the Scrabble story: “As if that wasn’t bad enough, it received a triple score and won the game for the character, whose name was Camilla.”
Hahahaha. Well played.
09/12/2008 at 14:25 Ginger Yellow says:
Also, there’s a gloriously off-topic, all-purpose Daily Mail rant in the comments:
It is disgrace. This country is based on Christian principles and through these principles this country became prosperous. Why this country started hating itself? Who these modern politicians want to please by fighting Christianity? What is the ultimate aim of multiculturalism? We’ve had enough of this “modern” liberal nonsense
I’m guessing this person just cuts and pastes that comment into ever single story on the site.
09/12/2008 at 14:29 Jonas says:
Everything wrong with the world can be blamed on a lack of Christian values. Fact.
09/12/2008 at 14:40 cullnean says:
for sanitys sake please all post on that stupid story
09/12/2008 at 14:59 Tei says:
@Ergates: or double ROT13, to be sure.
09/12/2008 at 15:00 phil says:
@Ginger Yellow – to be fair to the Daily Mail ranter, many of us modern liberals are actively undermining Christian principals, unfortunately we’re all too wacked out on goof balls to do anything apart from play rude word scrabble on our Nintendos.
09/12/2008 at 15:03 subedii says:
Picking apart the Daily Mail and its comments section is like shooting ducks in a barrel. Dead ducks.
To be fair, the BBC news “Have your say” section is rarely above the “youtube” level of comments posting either.
09/12/2008 at 15:18 plastictrash says:
So, no ‘racist nazi beavers’? That’s it, I’m not buying the game.
09/12/2008 at 15:21 Meat Circus says:
Thanks to the Daily Mail, I’ve stopped leaving my house. There’s only paedos and queers and blacks and Muslims and marauding gangs of Polish plumbers out there anyway.
09/12/2008 at 15:31 Ginger Yellow says:
To be fair, the BBC news “Have your say” section is rarely above the “youtube” level of comments posting either.
Are you familiar with Speak You’re Branes?
09/12/2008 at 15:37 Unlucky Irish says:
Interesting to note that “Fanny” doesn’t appear on the English UK list, which will surely lead to the children of the world being corrupted by Scottish, vagina based slang.
09/12/2008 at 15:38 Dominic White says:
On a semi-related note, the game with the best/worst ever word filter was the PC version of Phantasy Star Online – not PSU, the original game.
See, they went and censored pretty much everything, either as words, or parts of words. Among the censored terms was ‘ass’.
This wouldn’t have been so bad, were there not a very common enemy type called the Grass Assassin. Any attempt to talk about this enemy type would come out as Gr*********in – so me and my friends just referred to them as Grins from then on.
Any other word filters you lot have seen that make basic communication difficult?
09/12/2008 at 15:39 SteveHatesYou says:
My personal favourite is “rumpranger.”
09/12/2008 at 16:15 LeFishy says:
I remember a game that would censore the Hell in Hello. I think it was Guild Wars but the word filter was optional.
09/12/2008 at 16:16 Furbomb says:
My personal favorite is “rumpranger.”
just about to say the same. ….and Yes, he protects the asses of humanity, riding his shiny stallion .
09/12/2008 at 16:22 BC says:
Daily Mail Comment:
“I have bought this game for my daughter for Christmas ….. Christmas Day should be interesting!”
I doubt it.
09/12/2008 at 16:26 Andy F says:
The first thing that struck me about that Daily Mail article is that the lad has a pink DS.
DAILY MAIL IN GAY CHILD SHOCK
09/12/2008 at 16:33 James T says:
Actually, it’s “rum pranger” — anti-drink-driving censorship.
09/12/2008 at 16:41 Pags says:
Actually, it’s “r u m. p. ranger?”. he’s a very foul man who disappeared seven years ago after he called a woman a ‘cunting shit-vagina’. It’s rumoured that he likes ATV-racing games.
09/12/2008 at 17:07 BC says:
Best swear I have seen was graffiti saying “cunt-fucker”
…erm, yes.
09/12/2008 at 17:23 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:
Anaalkever made me laugh. Its supposed to mean something like anal beatle.
09/12/2008 at 17:39 Nick says:
I love this comments thread.
09/12/2008 at 17:54 Geb says:
Wait wait wait… the game has its profanity filter applied at the user’s own computer, based on a list the user has access to? I wonder what happens if you rewrite the list…
09/12/2008 at 18:27 Tei says:
@Geb: you hacker!.. maybe the filter is again on the server. If not, you will be able to see some words other people will be unable to repeat …or fight back. Is like a griefers wet dream, …humm….
09/12/2008 at 18:33 bildo says:
fun happens
09/12/2008 at 18:35 bildo says:
“american swearing is strange and underdeveloped”
lol really?
09/12/2008 at 18:37 A Delicate Balance says:
Awesome! None of the Québec French “sacres” are in there.
So I could say “Osti de crisse de câlice de sacrament de tabarnak de ciboire de viarge; Disney sont fous!”
Or something like that. Typical – pretend nobody in North America speaks French, when there are about 7 million of us.
09/12/2008 at 18:39 A Delicate Balance says:
@Tei: If you can use the words to explain to someone else how to change their list, then you can undermine the system! Let the revolution begin!
09/12/2008 at 18:50 Xirex says:
I’m kind of surprised to not find YIFF on the list. I mean, this is DISNEY we’re talking about!
09/12/2008 at 19:24 cullnean says:
nah best swearing i have seen/heard comes from blade III
ryan reynolds nabs it with “cock juggling thunder-cunt”
i have high hopes for the deadpool movie!
09/12/2008 at 19:37 BrokenSymmetry says:
Another fun Dutch word on the list: “breezersletje” (a young girl that will do anything for a breezer drink).
09/12/2008 at 19:52 Ergates says:
Also, what exactly is the point of having a distinct English_UK file if they’re going to leave all the spellings the same as the US one: “pedophile”? (somone who likes feet).
Or maybe they actually mean foot fetishists and they don’t object to child abuse….
09/12/2008 at 20:03 Arnulf says:
Update: @Matt Kemp, thanks for the clarification. Yes, that makes sense actually.
I found the german pendant. I learned a thing or two. ;)
But Sackgesicht is still missing :)
09/12/2008 at 20:03 James G says:
Yeah, I noticed that as well, likewise for gay and lesbian vs. straight. One of the subtle ways society tends to reinforce the notion that being gay is ‘other’ and corupt. Of course, I’m sure the writers of the list would claim that ‘straight’ in never used as an insult, whereas ‘gay’ is. Unfortunately their solution results in allowing straight folks to discuss their sexuality, while preventing gay folks from doing the same, well unless they want to describe themselves as poofs.
On the greek mythology theme, it also has something against the island of Lesbos!
Edit: Wow! The Brit list clearly wasn’t compiled by a Brit, it includes wetback, but not Paki! (And sorry for the usage. Even in a context of discussion, racial slurs make me uncomfortable.)
Edit2: Not Mitchell and Webb fans I see, mention of Peepshow is forbidden!
09/12/2008 at 23:24 matte_k says:
What a fucking great thread :D
10/12/2008 at 02:19 DigitalSignalX says:
Thankfully, my favorite “Lungbutter” is still in the clear.
10/12/2008 at 03:12 Saul says:
Off topic, but if we’re doing our favourite graffiti, my all time fave is:
“SUCK MA BUNS HOLE!” (painted on a cliff by a highway).
10/12/2008 at 05:20 Josepi says:
Slattern! Ahaha.
RE: Scrabble game with “Junior” option:
A spokesman for Ubisoft said: ‘We are sorry the game has caused concern, but it includes a “junior” option that stops it using unusual or offensive words.’
But Mrs Carrington insisted: “But I didn’t check the options so I’m going to keep complaining to the interwebz news and pretending everything is your fault, I’m pathetic and can’t act responsibly.”
Fixed quote. I feel sorry for her kid, and anyone else she comes into contact with, for that matter.
What a shame.
10/12/2008 at 11:40 Vanderdecken says:
I love how they censor the existence of homosexuality. So if I decide to come out in an online game… what do I do?
10/12/2008 at 13:33 Kong says:
When did I hear “motherfucker” the first time? I believe it was some bad movie from hollywood. I learned to use “fuck” on a more or less regular base in Great Britain though. I am very grateful for both, in GErmany we only had scheisse in my youth. All shit no fuck. Terribly boring. For fuck alone I feel a deep friendship for the british.
The german list misses Mutterficker (moddurfokker -are we not one happy profane family?) and Kackvogel (which I learned from a german-turkish friend. He translated it from “Piskusch” -shitbird- in his kurdish mother tongue.
Let us have a UN festival of profanity. Fuck for world peace.
10/12/2008 at 13:47 Kong says:
The have marijuana in the german list, it is missing in the english.
What about cannabis/hemp?
The lists are incomplete, how totaly irresponsible.
What about frigging/frakking?
This thread serves as a great means for THEM to complete their database. May they drown in dünnschiss from a thousand alcoholics.
10/12/2008 at 14:24 A Delicate Balance says:
@Vanderdecken: “So if I decide to come out in an online game… what do I do?”
I’d suggest saying “I’m coming out” but I think you’d be lucky if you can use the word “come/coming”.
10/12/2008 at 14:27 A Delicate Balance says:
Actually, I notice that comestain, cum and cumstain are on the list, but naturally enough “come” is not. So I can “come all over your face” in a Disney game and that’s fine.
10/12/2008 at 20:56 Kong says:
@A Delicate Balance
yeah, as somebody mentioned above, they have to censor all words. Only smileys in the future.
18/12/2008 at 14:59 TreeFrog says:
Wow. I only pointed this out on your own Pure demo thread two months ago.
21/12/2008 at 16:33 Rombo says:
Okay, so I’ve only just glanced at the German list, but I saw a funny one after about half a second. “Analverkehr” – anal traffic? Really?
21/12/2008 at 16:58 Thirith says:
“Verkehr” is also the German word used for “intercourse”.
22/12/2008 at 03:53 CyberSkull says:
I’m surprised they didn’t use a regular expression engine for this.
(boys?|girls?|chicks?|guys?|m[ae]n|wom[ae]n)(2|4|to|for|on)(boys?|girls?|chicks?|guys?|m[ae]n|wom[ae]n)would have cut a chunk out of that list (and this is less than 5 minutes of thought).24/12/2008 at 22:09 ACardboardRobot says:
Finally, my life is complete. I have read a game journalist saying slattern.