Is the AB censor an idiot?

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.

Is there a civilian salute?

Am I very clever or is it a coincidence?

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dothawkes31

blame the trolls

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Sqad

chakka...I have had the same problem, one must clearly describe present day man as
h.o.m.o sapiens. :-)

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chakka35

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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...

another-view

homosapien

another-view

Seems ok to me.

chakka35

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Well, they're improving!

bobjugs12

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?

another-view

It's because you are putting spaces between the words.

bobjugs12

I'm half tempted to use this 'experiment' as an excuse just to write loads of naughty words lol

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Scunthorpe

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AB Editor

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