pornolinguistics

[tebing]

So at work I've been updating what we call the "bad word filter". This is a bunch of regexps that we use to detect whether a document has questionable content or not. In other words, whether it's a porn site or a link to one. Did you know that there is a difference in connotation between the words buttman and assman? They both have the same *

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[alsoname]

Normally I'd assume that "buttman" was more innocent than "assman," since "butt" is more innocent than "ass." But because "assman" was popularized by Seinfeld I guessed it was the other way around, and it seems that I was right. Weird! "Buttman" still doesn't sound very porny to me.

[ripresa]

my google friend mentioned he had to do porn duty at some point as well.