The Boston Globe’s comment section also block the "obscene’ word.
It’s like we don’t even need professional comedians any more, because real life is taking care of it.
Well, personally, I think this is ridiculous, but so was the grad’s reaction.
Humiliated?!? Really?!? I would have been laughing my ass off (am I allowed to say that here?) >:)
It does say he can laugh about it now. I think my jaw would have dropped in shock and then I would have laughed.
As Bugs Bunny would say to the folks at Publix; “what a maroon!!!” Is that Latin? Educationis modicum periculosum.
Online systems use 3rd party filters for this kind of thing, so it isn’t just a Publix issue. I had this identical issue trying to receive a resume at work from a legal placement company. The emails were not getting through, and both of our company IT departments were working on it. Turned out the resume had “cum laude” on it and the whole thing was being blocked! We had a good laugh, but the IT folks explained what happens if words are removed entirely from the list- thousands of emails can get through that you do NOT want!
McGill University’s motto is “Grandescunt Aucta Labore” (By work, all things increase and grow).
Certain filters star out four letters of the Latin motto. You can guess which four.
Only a dirty mind would first think of that when reading ‘cum laude’.
The nickname for University of South Carolina athletic teams is the Gamecocks. Ditto.
Funny story for sure – but in their defense it was simply a badly automated filter. Computers are more stupid than humans. They will fix that in the next release I bet, if they haven’t already.
Once a 3rd party system we integrated with kept returning errors and we could not figure out why.
Problem was the auto-generated username: first initial + last name.
User’s name was “Sharon Hitman” (changed slightly for privacy).
Would all of the words in the ten commandments be acceptable?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A17&version=KJV .
We’ve had a few “filter fails” on CC, too. “BS” was one.
Shitake mushrooms used to get starred out.
I’ll never be able to look at S’s diploma the same way again.
I was working with someone in the home office who was presenting a solution to a problem involving two options that could not both exist. I got off the phone call which was curt but cordial. A week later I get notified that I will have to defend against an HR complaint; The woman I spoke with was upset because I had called her OXYMORONIC. She actually put the whole word in the complaint, which was dropped after it was fully read by an HR person. We are getting dumber as a species.
Itunes ends up censoring many Cajun songs. They often start with an abbreviated form of petit, which is spelled 'tit and it ends ups getting starred out.
I can understand the computer being confused, but what about the people in the bakery department? Did no one realize what it should have said? You’d think they would ask around if they saw — instead of a word.
It might be silly that the kid was embarrassed, but he’s a high school grad–of a Christian school, apparently–so I can see why this discussion happening with friends and family might have felt a little more awkward to him than it would four years from now when he graduates college.
Not related to the “bad word” issue, but the article says that the new graduate was home schooled. Valedictorian out of a class of one?
^^^ Hey, even I could have done that.
“Valedictorian out of a class of one?”
Does that qualify as oxymoronic? 