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chakka35 | 10:55 Tue 09th Mar 2010 | Society & Culture
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On another site I tried to refer to the proper zoological name for mankind, which we all know is moho sapiens. But when I spelt that first word correctly (instead of using the anagram above) it was censored and replaced with asterisks.
This means that one cannot refer on AB to a scientific term which is used in thousands of textbooks on biology, evolution, zoology and in dozens of other disciplines. What is particularly daft is that the first four letters of the word 'homosexuality' is not the Latin for 'man' (as in that zoological term) but a Greek prefix meaning 'the same', the whole word meaning 'of the same sex' .

Whether the AB censor is moho or femina, he or she is certainly not sapiens.
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blame the trolls
10:56 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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chakka...I have had the same problem, one must clearly describe present day man as
h.o.m.o sapiens. :-)
11:01 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Sqad, what a good idea, but how stupid that we should have to resort to such tricks to use our own language -well,er, Latin - properly. And, of course, there are others apart from sapiens: erectus, habilis, neanderthalensis, and so on.

And have you ever had reason to mention a ball cock, a stopcock, a cock-and-bull story, a cock crowing, cock-a-leekie soup, a cock of the walk? Let's see what happens to those...
16:42 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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homosapien
16:43 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Seems ok to me.
16:43 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Well, they're improving!
16:43 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Maybe it's all about context:
Your a *** and you love men
Your a *** sapien and you are a man

You play badminton with a shuttlecock
Only cocks play badminton

Lets see what we get from these?
16:45 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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It's because you are putting spaces between the words.
16:46 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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I'm half tempted to use this 'experiment' as an excuse just to write loads of naughty words lol
16:48 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Scunthorpe
16:48 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Hi All.

I think I've made it quite clear in the past that if you have a problem with a word being filtered you simply need to ask me.

[email protected]

All the best,

Spare Ed
16:50 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Oh nice one, now Ed's in a sulk ;-)
16:50 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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Since when has homosapien been two words?
16:50 Tue 09th Mar 2010
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yeah right ed
16:52 Tue 09th Mar 2010

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