Adults don't need a fucking nanny and trust me, by the time they're old enough to use an Android, the kiddies know all the bad words they'll need for a lifetime.

I suppose if I ever get a cell phone, it is not going to be an Android.

I don't need a nanny.

What's weird is so much of it is sexually based. But Uterus? C'mon man-----somebody screwed up.

I was a nurse and the only reason I'd have one of those things would be to be contacted over work issues that used all those words. I might even need to use the dreaded VAGINA.

Some damned religious nut in a cube who considers everything on a woman's body to be soiled is probably to blame.

and as others point out, the words aren't actually banned on the android.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/16/the-apple-kill-list-what-your-iphone-doesn-t-want-you-to-type.html

They need to disqualify religiously prissy people from programming spell check.

idiots...

Just typed "Condo" in my android and I get

Condo Condi Condoms Conditions


Typed "Uteru"

Get

Uteru Uterus Uterine Hurry Jerry (Jerry? )


not like anyone can't try by themselves LOL

Which stated the whole "damn you spell check" thingy. But that's for checking--I thought it was pretty weird.

and I made it quite clear I don't.

However, I'm glad this article got it wrong and that in any case, it only covers the built in spell check.

I had this horrible vision of heavily redacted texts.

They do that to try to keep auto complete from embarrassing you. There's websites dedicated to auto complete screw ups.

You can also disable the filter if you are so inclined.

I don't have any kind of smart phone.

I don't see myself texting about my uterus any time soon. I just don't think anybody is interested.

Hmmmm.

I'm surprised it passed

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]"The setting can be disabled and users can input their preferred vocabulary manually."

Maybe the "censorship" is because millions of children have android phones and Google is trying to be proactive in avoiding problems with their parents.

People bitch about their phones incorrectly "self-correcting" text all the time, anyway, so just disable the damn thing. End of problem.

The hair-on-fire reaction to simple things never ceases to amaze.

android devices. User control.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]

I detest touch screen keyboards. I truly do. I use them because I must, but I won't have an electronic toy deciding what I meant to type. I know more words than it does in the first place, and in the second place, fuck auto correct and auto complete. I don't want them, and I won't use them.

Just shut them off and type what you want. That's my advice.

That solves the problem. It's a crappy feature anyhow, and it doesn't work very well in the first place.

Touch screen virtual keyboards are next to useless anyhow. I turned off the autocorrect feature the first time my Android tablet messed up what I had typed. Works fine now. I can type anything I want.

It's more the strangeness of the dictionary.

I think the "Wired" article outlines this a bit better

I know how to type and I know how to spell words correctly. This isn't censorship as much as it is an attempt to simplify text entry for people who don't know how to spell, etc. The dictionaries in these devices are very limited and whoever put them together didn't really care whether they were useful or not. They're not useful.

It's part of the dumbing down of the world, really, not some nefarious plot to subjugate people. I'm sure I could write an article about other words that are automatically changed and put a different sort of spin on it, but I won't. It could be done on racial, religious, and many other grounds, I have no doubt.

The first time I tried to use the virtual keyboard on my Kindle Fire, I said WTF to myself and went to the tools and shut it off. For the same reason, I don't have AutoCorrect on in Microsoft Word, either. It makes more mistakes than I do, by far.

The reason they have that feature built in to those devices is because people type the wrong shit into them all the time and the designers thought this would be a good way to "help" users out. It's not. Thank goodness they let you shut it off, or I'd not be using these things at all.

It's not sexist. It's not racist. It's not anything but stupid. If you can spell, shut it off. If you can't, it's going to type weird shit for your quite frequently. Nature of the beast.

Ask me sometime about the thesaurus that used to be used in Microsoft Word and what I forced Microsoft to do in a review of the second version of that product in a major magazine. Now, that was sexism, probably by their acceptance of some old thesaurus's content, but sexist, nevertheless. They fixed it, but not without trying to get me fired as a reviewer.

I'd ask but it sounds like a long answer--but, if you'd like

So why the difference between English and other languages? Or does that even matter?

During the course of testing the software for the review, I tested the thesaurus feature. First, I looked up synonyms for "man." The list was long, and included lots of positive words, like "human, boss, male, husband, leader, etc." It was a long list, with very few words having negative connotations.

Then, I looked up "woman." What a difference. "Wife" was in there, along with words like "dame, whore, broad, secretary, etc." Very few words with positive connotations. WTF? I asked myself.

Then I tried "boy" and "girl" and got the same ugly results, more or less.

So, in the review, I called this out, providing examples to illustrate my point, along with a screen shot of the "woman" synonyms. The magazine, as it usually did, ran the review as it was, including that portion. Microsoft hit the roof. They contacted the editor and publisher of the magazine and read them the riot act. Despite my giving the program a "Best Buy" rating, they acted as though my pointing out the flaw was treasonous or some such thing.

Finally, there was a conference call. I pointedly asked if there were any errors of fact in the review. There were not, of course. I then told them that the thesaurus add-on they had bought and used was woefully incorrect and biased and that they should change it forthwith to avoid pissing off all of the many, many women who used their product. I gave them the name of another thesaurus publisher that was being used by one of their competitors, and suggested they speak to that publisher. The next version of the program had the better thesaurus implemented.

The magazine got a bunch of letters praising the review and pointing out that I had written about a serious flaw in the program. It got a few letters whining about the "PC" nature of my review and that "who cares about a thesaurus, anyhow?" Guess which letters were written by men.

Anyhow, from time to time, I was able to influence software companies to improve their software. That was one of those times. I continued to write for that publication and to review Microsoft products for many years. They never bugged me again about a negative review of some feature.

That's very, very cool



As an aside, the spell check has improved my spelling a by small amount through repetition.

On the other hand, my handwriting has gotten so bad I'm thinking of taking a calligraphy class

Even I can't read my handwriting anymore. I print in all caps now.

Some more info on those autocomplete and autocorrect features. The tables they use are based on word use frequency. As you type or SWYPE a word into the device, it starts looking for the most used word that matches what you're typing. If you've introduced a spelling error, or the word you've typed isn't the device's dictionary, it automatically changes it to the closest or most frequently used word.

If you stop and don't hit the space character, you'll see what you typed on the far left of the choices. If you tap that, it will be inserted. However, if the word, spelled as it is spelled is not in the dictionary, the device will plug in the word to the right of what you typed. That word is selected based on usage frequency and closeness of spelling.

Now, if you type in "uteru," you'll probably find "utilize" or "utter" sitting there to the right of what you have typed. And, if "uterus" is not in the device's word list, whatever is to the right of what you typed will be inserted when you tap the space bar.

These device makers don't create the word lists that are in the device. They get them somewhere else. The quality of the word list determines its usefulness. And then, there is the deal of leaving out words they might think are objectionable. So, for example, if the original compiler of the word list that was chosen had some issues, some words might have been omitted.

Device makers and software programmers are not all that bright when it comes to things like lengthy lists of words. They didn't even look at the list they used. There are thousands of word lists and vocabulary lists out there. Most of them are in the public domain, so someone just picked one off the internet, most likely.

Again, those features are rarely very useful. I recommend shutting them off. But, it's fodder for the bloggers to find things like this. The blogger doesn't understand how it works, and so the blogger draws the wrong conclusion.

Anyhow "shit" becomes "shift" and "vagina" becomes "Virginia." Such is today's technology.

Because that is just weird.

Better ban it, fuckos.

I wouldn't mind

Indeed. Grow up.