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Ah, I see the problem. An awful lot of profanities are ethnic/racial/other minority slurs.

Perhaps some foreign-language and more obscure (dialectal?) English swear words could be used? With crowd-sourcing I'm sure we could reach 256.

as it was, I needed to make a call for swears and look up some different dictionaries to fill up this project

People are somewhat reluctant to share their profanity on GitHub

Make that call here and now on Hacker News, while this still has attention and is on the front page, and I'm sure you'll get contributions!

I suggest putting at the top-level of this comments section, so it gets more attention.