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I will consciously alter the way in which I write wordz on le intranetz to make it more difficult to single me out as a Vietnamese female. I’m guessing not everyone puts this much thought into making words for posterity :-)


I already have this filter applied to HN.

See e.g. https://idiomreplacex.de/ (German language)

It used to be a fun lab prank to set text filters on browsers of unattended laptops, like swapping all gendered words. A colleague spent a week in an alternate universe before he realized something was amiss when he read a movie review for "The Lady of the Rings".




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