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Check out old Mae West movies where she adheres to the letter of the Hayes Code yet always finds a saucy way to get her point across. A couple classics:

Reporter: "What do you think of foreign affairs?" West: "I'm all for 'em!"

"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

Language is infinitely malleable. Algorithms don't stand a chance.



> Language is infinitely malleable

I mentioned this before but my GF worked on an mmo's for tweens. Said one experiment with filters ended with a 12 year old boy writing, I'm going to stick my giraffe up your pink bunny.




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