What about for the BDSM community?
What about for the BDSM community?
The New York Times has eliminated certain “obscure” and “insensitive” words from the pool used by the popular puzzle game Wordle, after purchasing it last month. The newspaper confirmed the censorship on Tuesday, after players noted the elimination of certain words. Critics say the absence of ‘slave’ from the new vocabulary is particularly baffling.
Some of the examples that players discovered, as reported last week by group blog website BoingBoing, are simply profane to some degree, like the word ‘wench’, as well as a certain euphemism for female genitalia. Others came from less well-known parts of the English dictionary, like ‘agora’, the Greek word for a place of public meetings.
Full article continues here: https://www.rt.com/news/549793-wordle-slave-banned-times/
> The New York Times has eliminated certain “obscure” and “insensitive” words from the pool used by the popular puzzle game Wordle, after purchasing it last month. The newspaper confirmed the censorship on Tuesday, after players noted the elimination of certain words. Critics say the absence of ‘slave’ from the new vocabulary is particularly baffling.
> Some of the examples that players discovered, as reported last week by group blog website BoingBoing, are simply profane to some degree, like the word ‘wench’, as well as a certain euphemism for female genitalia. Others came from less well-known parts of the English dictionary, like ‘agora’, the Greek word for a place of public meetings.
Full article continues here: https://www.rt.com/news/549793-wordle-slave-banned-times/
Dammit. That was one of my three starting words: Kikes Slave Negro
Dammit. That was one of my three starting words:
Kikes
Slave
Negro
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