Type or swipe the word on the latest version of Android’s Google Keyboard or for that matter “intercourse,” “coitus,” “screwing” or even “lovemaking” and the web giant’s predictive algorithm will offer no help.
These are just a few examples from an obsessive, and often baffling list of more than 1,400 English words that Google has quietly deemed inappropriate for Android users.
They’re all part of a strange, 165,000-word dictionary that appears in the source code of KitKat, the latest version of the Android operating system.
The banned directory includes “butt” and “geek,” all seven of George Carlin’s dirty words, a frat party’s worth of homophobia and misogyny, and is peppered with pornographic sub genres and fetishistically obscure medical terms, like “gonadatrophia” and “irrumination.” Genitalia is banned (with special attention paid to women’s bodies) as well as a mystifying selection of words that aren’t generally considered offensive, like “thud” and “LSAT.”
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