Green's Dictionary of Slang
greensdictofslang.com
greensdictofslang.com
edit: there are jokes that rely on a specific language or culture. but i think (correct me if i'm wrong) sarcasm and hyperbole span language
I suspect it is more about legal exposure, rather than thinking someone is going to come up with a new insult. For example, I suspect you can imagine some words that even being seen on a device in your company would end up in a civil lawsuit settlement.
More immediately, probably it's blocked because it's on some blocklist. It's on the blocklist for the same reason: Why not? Consider these scenarios:
1. You're the IT manager. It's not blocked and something on UD causes a problem - content, even malware. You may think it's valid or not, but regardless HR, legal, managers, some VP, multiple employees, IT are all dealing with it. The VP asks you: I am extremely busy doing high-return work for the company and so are all these other people, and now I and all of these people are wasting time on this useless nonsense. Why didn't you block it? Isn't this your job? - What do you respond?
2. It's blocked, you work there and want to lookup something on UD, and you ask IT to unblock it. IT manager forwards the request to your manager, noting that IT staff are very busy integrating the new acquisition, but would be happy to do whatever your people need for important projects. Your manager asks you why you contacted IT. What is your response?
3. It's blocked, you want to lookup something on UD, and you complain to your manager that it's blocked. Your manager says: If you can't find something profitable to do, you're fired. If you can't figure out to use your phone, you're fired. Do you go over your manager's head?
4. It's blocked, you work in IT and go through the blocklist - probably tens of thousands of items long - and unblock some things like UD. Your manager says (the same as #3). What do you think?
5. It's blocked and you bring up at a meeting that you think it should be unblocked. Nobody speaks. Why are they silent?
You are there to achieve the organization's goals. UD has nothing at all to do with that or anything else of enough importance or value to even distract a co-worker for a half-second, causing them to refocus twice.
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edit: I did not know that Yeet was a real thing in programming, even as a placeholder. This is excellent: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Yeet.html
Is "period" used to mean "has decimal (binimal) point"?
It was fun to just thumb through it and find bizarre old phrases like "cat's pyjamas."
Cool to see an open and digitized version of something similar, especially something better than urbandictionary, which can be useful, but also has a lot of repeat entries and a stupid ability to downvote correct entries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/books/review/slanguage-bo...
Here's a paper whose methodology addresses some of your question:
Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 331, 176-182 (2011). DOI:10.1126/science.1199644
They have some interesting variety there, too.
Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang. Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. ad 1000 to the present day. The main focus of the dictionary is the coverage of over 500 years of slang from c. 1500 onwards.
The printed version of the dictionary received the Dartmouth Medal for outstanding works of reference from the American Library Association in 2012; fellow recipients include the Dictionary of American Regional English, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. It has been hailed by the American New York Times as ‘the pièce de résistance of English slang studies’ and by the British Sunday Times as ‘a stupendous achievement, in range, meticulous scholarship, and not least entertainment value’.
On this website the dictionary is now available in updated online form for the first time, complete with advanced search tools enabling search by definition and history, and an expanded bibliography of slang sources from the early modern period to the present day. Since the print edition, nearly 60,000 quotations have been added, supporting 5,000 new senses in 2,500 new entries and sub-entries, of which around half are new slang terms from the last five years.