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Date:      Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:09:15 +0200
From:      Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/jive deleted
Message-ID:  <20161022110915.634b99d473561f0e94673944@yahoo.es>
In-Reply-To: <20161022024510.7cvnhc2fdh7h7arh@ozzmosis.com>
References:  <20161022024510.7cvnhc2fdh7h7arh@ozzmosis.com>

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On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:45:10 +1100
andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote:

> At the risk of this developing into a flame war, I thought this was
> curious:
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2016-August/126687.html
> 
> Is this the first time a port has been deleted for being "offensive"?

>From Jive description at wikipedia:

*Jive, also known as the Jive Filter, is a novelty computer program that
*converts plain English to a comic dialect known as "jive", a parody of
*African American Vernacular English. Some versions of the filter were
*adapted to parody other forms of English speech, such as valspeak,
*cockney, geordie, Pig Latin, and even the Swedish Chef. The latter form
*is sometimes known as the "Encheferator" or "Encheferizer". This family
*of programs became quite popular in the late 1980s.

So it's a parody of multiple english speechs. Also, mark it as
offensive is subjective opinion. Perhaps who made the change could
explain better.

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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>



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