• palordrolap@fedia.io
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    8 hours ago

    OK, so, no word of a lie, I decided to enumerate an alphabetical word list of British English. “erotic” is at 30872, and “vulgar” is at 99680. The average of these is 65276, which is where you’d draw a line exactly between them. What word is at that entry? “package’s”.

    So by sheer mathematics, you’re crossing the line if you can see some guy’s package. QED.

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      5 hours ago

      Playing by those rules, I reject the arithmetic mean and draw the line between them on the word “line”.

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        7 hours ago

        No definition. It’s purely a word list, nothing more. Specifically, I used /usr/share/dict/words, which on my machine ultimately links to /usr/share/dict/british-english.