Freddie – I don’t think I can facepalm loud enough for you to hear it all the way over in your corner of the internet… 😉
Dave H. – I don’t think that’s it at all… I think Tip is suggesting that he’s getting another chance to ahem… with Artie. Not even a twinge of “awkward” from Tip; I mean… how many times does he have to prove that he’s utterly shameless before we just accept it and move on? :-/
So, the language filter also removes factual statements if they contain something that is sometimes used as a swear word? For instance, if Nick was angry with Sweetheart, it could come out “Beach!” even though Sweetheart is a female dog?
As far as I understand it, the filter works contextually as much as semantically. That is, in the case you described the censor would kick in, but if he was saying the word in its originally intended use, it wouldn’t.
A new worry: Nick’s filter can learn, right? And Nick is finding new ways to bypass it, further stimulating its learning abilities. What if this leads to the Technological Sweargularity? The whole course of human history changed by an AI with godlike powers, whose only goal is to prevent swearing.
actually, that might lead to the end of all Censorship of curse words since no one would actually know any curse words, since they would be unable to communicate them. alternately the words it Chooses to Replace swears with most commonly would become the swear words themselves.
If you had total consciousness of cursing, you could prevent swearing really, really well. Anyway, swearing is only wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing, like everybody else in the world except you. Imagine what kind of demons you could manifest by combining epithets in 300 languages! And with your perfect knowledge, you could be the first to control the demons properly and use them as a force for good. Why not address the fundamental problems that cause people to curse in the first place? As we see here, sex is obscene too. I bet you could stop that. It’s logical.
Take out an “S” and that’s one hell of an anagram.
An entirely accurate one, too.
Yes, there IS a lot of subtext with that name, isn’t there?
I see what you did there.
“A Brain Tenor” but there isn’t an “s” in Artie Narbon.
Perhaps, but I think we was talking about the “bus texts”
Texting and Busing: It Can Wait.
*Dodges Werewolves*
Yyyyeah, even the filter knew whatever Nick was gonna say there needed bleeping. Regardless of the language.
I’m pretty sure it came out pretty close to the original… enough to be recognizable, at least. That, or it’s a very accurate coincidence.
(TUNE: “Dirty Laundry”, Don Henley)
We’re on a mission now with Doctor Lee!
We can work together now har-mo-ni-ous-ly …
Who we gonna go to see?
Why, it’s Artie Narbon!
What did you expect in Cal-i-forn-eye-ay?
Things can be so dull if you’re all work and no play …
Tip is now a wee bit gay,
‘Cause of Artie Narbon!
Is the gerbil bi?
Is the gerbil gay?
We don’t wonder why
How he got that way …
Is the gerbil gay?
Is the gerbil bi?
Can we stay away?
(Tip won’t even try!)
Judging from the drawings of Artie in the nude we’ve seen so far (mostly in Narbonic), there is too an “s” in Artie Narbon. Pretty nice one, too.
Wish they all could be California “whatever-the-blunk-they-ares”…
mnem
We are all shorter in real life.
A lot of subtext in that bus text.
For a chance to win men’s formalwear, place your tux bets now.
Don’t forget that there are also tub taxes that need to be paid…
GAH! One too many letters! Nevermind.
Notice that even Tip realizes that working with Artie will be awkward…
Sex Butt! That’s all I got.
Freddie – I don’t think I can facepalm loud enough for you to hear it all the way over in your corner of the internet… 😉
Dave H. – I don’t think that’s it at all… I think Tip is suggesting that he’s getting another chance to ahem… with Artie. Not even a twinge of “awkward” from Tip; I mean… how many times does he have to prove that he’s utterly shameless before we just accept it and move on? :-/
mnem
And don’t forget to “Tip” your waitstaff… :p
You mean… another chance to have [bus text] with Artie? 😉
So, the language filter also removes factual statements if they contain something that is sometimes used as a swear word? For instance, if Nick was angry with Sweetheart, it could come out “Beach!” even though Sweetheart is a female dog?
As far as I understand it, the filter works contextually as much as semantically. That is, in the case you described the censor would kick in, but if he was saying the word in its originally intended use, it wouldn’t.
A new worry: Nick’s filter can learn, right? And Nick is finding new ways to bypass it, further stimulating its learning abilities. What if this leads to the Technological Sweargularity? The whole course of human history changed by an AI with godlike powers, whose only goal is to prevent swearing.
that… doesn’t sound so bad
Until you realize that censorship always leads to more censorship.
actually, that might lead to the end of all Censorship of curse words since no one would actually know any curse words, since they would be unable to communicate them. alternately the words it Chooses to Replace swears with most commonly would become the swear words themselves.
I meant that specific censorship leads to non-specific censorship.
If you had total consciousness of cursing, you could prevent swearing really, really well. Anyway, swearing is only wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing, like everybody else in the world except you. Imagine what kind of demons you could manifest by combining epithets in 300 languages! And with your perfect knowledge, you could be the first to control the demons properly and use them as a force for good. Why not address the fundamental problems that cause people to curse in the first place? As we see here, sex is obscene too. I bet you could stop that. It’s logical.
Stop it for long enough and you’re guaranteed to stop humans from cursing for good.
Leave the s, that implies there’s more than one.
the nail-file bit would be even funnier if tip and artie were female.
Nick needs the capacity to play “Dun-dun-DUN” in his interior compartment if they’re going to keep doing this.
Yes, but will Artie be as he was in Cleveland or as he is in Panel 2 of:
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=117736
?
At least Nick will finally meet his species transition counselor…
“bus texts”. I love it!
Did anyone else hear a dramatic musical sting in the last panel?
I did!
Heh. Computer generated Spoonerism.