When is "American" profane?

[anseljh]

I ran some text through Alex, and it told me "American" is profane in some cases. Thanks, Trump. 😝

More seriously, I can't think of a context in which "American" would be profane, and its presence in this package seems likely to generate almost entirely false positives. Should it be removed? (There are probably others in this category too.)

It looks like the origin of "American" here is Luis von Ahn's research group's Offensive/Profane Word List.

[wooorm]

Hahaha. 😆

Yeah, it’s from that list. I recently created cuss for that - also incorporated into alex to tone down/up some messages, recently.

If you’re using alex, I suggest using it’s ignore mechanisms (only work w/ markdown).
If you’re using profanities to count some score yourself, it might still be a good metric.
Otherwise, maybe switch to using cuss directly?

Does that help? I’ll re-open if not.

[anseljh]

Thanks, that does help. This came up while I was using atom-linter-alex:

Maybe it should use cuss instead, with a threshold of 1 or 2?

[wooorm]

Ah, I see. Thing is, It’s already using cuss for changing the messages. I thought “it’s profane in some cases” would be adequate?

Maybe atom-linter-alex should switch to using “Warning” for level-0 cussing instead?

[wooorm]

@anseljh Better message types are included in linter-alex 3.1.0: get-alex/atom-linter-alex@2da0000!