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How can I keep from generating inappropriate words when autogenerating strings from an alphabet?

Is there a downloadable dictionary (essentially just a textfile) that contains common swear or otherwise inappropriate words in different languages?

Background: I'm rewriting an URL Shortener (Just a Proof of Concept app - the world has enough shorteners already anyway) and for that I convert Numeric IDs into Strings by Base36 encoding them. Now the problem with that approach is that it's sequential, so the unlucky people who shorten the URL that comes after faf or fucj may not be happy with their results, unless they are precisely waiting for that moment and use it to shorten the URL of their favorite Politician.

So I want a blacklist. InsultMonger doesn't really help here.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

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Just remove all the vowels (and Y) from your potential alphabet, then anyone who sees a swear word must have an overactive imagination.

tvanfosson  2010-01-07 20:15:43
That's actually an interesting approach, especially because removing the Y as well is cruicial as it can double an a U.
Michael Stum  2010-01-07 20:26:31
like the people who see the fsck shirts?
0A0D  2010-01-07 20:33:35
For my purposes, that's what I went with, but the list below can also be useful.
Michael Stum  2010-01-08 11:02:15
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Here's a large multilingual list: http://nerdcereal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/multilingualswearlist.txt

al.stevens  2010-01-07 22:03:03

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