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An example of what I mean:

I, in China, told an English speaking Chinese friend I needed to stop off in the bathroom to "take a shit."

He looked appalled and after I asked why he had that look, he asked what I was going to do with someone's shit.

I had not laughed so hard in a while, and it totally makes sense.

I explained it was an expression for pooping, and he comes back with, "wouldn't that be giving a shit?"

I then got to explain that to give a shit means you care and I realized how fucked some of our expressions are.

What misunderstandings made you laugh?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago

Whores bath. It’s when you hit up the bathroom to freshen your junk before you get busy

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bruh .ml censores the urls too

a screenshot of wikionary saying "Wiktionary does not yet have an entry for removed bath."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

pathetic ass instance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Wow, that's insanity. I don't particularly like the word, but come on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The censor hits any substring, rather than trying to heuristically guess whether the substring is being used as a slur or not, it assumes users are smart enough to pick up on the context.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

"Whore bath" is how I've heard it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People are trying to post the answer and it's getting censored lol. The term is "core's bath," but replace the "c" with "wh".

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It isn't censored on most instances.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

#JustDotMLProblems

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lemmy.ml censors the word "whore"???

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/utils/src/utils/slurs.rs#L78

Line 78 has the regex for Lemmy's profanity filter. The .ml instance has it enabled, .world and most others I've seen do not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm quite impressed by the elaborate regex for the n word

ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, I can kinda understand it - socialists/communists/anarchists generally prefer 'sex worker', because 'whore' has some pretty terrible connotations due to being used as a slur for so long.

But still, censoring it instead of just deleting/blocking the handful of pricks who still say it as an insult seems... well, par for the course for .ml tbh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I don't understand it at all when it's not nearly as bad as some of the shit that gets said on there.

Pretty pathetic that they feel the need to censor words

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

What a bunch of pricks