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Not sure if this is the right place, but I've seen this for the 3rd removed now.
Literally couldn't use the word in the title ... got a red pop-up that said "slur".
It's the 3rd word (singular) in the famous newspaper from New York ....
UPDATE: seems to be an issue with ani.social, thanks for all the feedback!
I wonder if someone is learning a lesson about regexes on that instance. It would be very weird to replace the string 'time' on its own.
Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
I remember back in the early web days I was trying to make a post on a forum with something about Dick Van Dyke, getting a double-whammy name block. He already unfamiliar to the younger people even back then, so none of my attempts to explain who I was talking about worked. I couldn't even say what show he starred in for them to look up, since it was also called The Dick van Dyke Show.
you could try to say they were the poorly cocksney bastard in Mary Poppins
Thanks so much, I knew there was some kind of term of concept for that but couldn't find it!
I always called it the buttbuttination (of Lincoln) problem, heh.
It's a clbuttic mistake.
Tom Scott has a video on it
But what’s the slur they’re hunting if they catch “time”? Is it tim, ime, ti, me or something else?
No idea and not sure if it's right. They could be attempting to match something across whitespace or line breaks and gotten greedy. Or maybe it is just a string match and not regex and they pasted the wrong string, but that still feels weird.