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clbuttic en · ADJ

Etymology

A modification of the word classic by automated string substitution of ass for butt.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling) Deliberate misspelling of classic.
   alt of classic
   • This is one of the clbuttic (spelling intentional) reasons why simple find/replace doesn't always work and regular expressions are often used instead. 2011 March 21, Prayag, “substring string replace problem”, in comp.soft-sys.matlab (Usenet):
   • I think you mean this clbuttic post: > http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides 2009 May 21, Steve Ferg, “Seeking old post on developers who like IDEs vs developers who like simple languages”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):
   • That's a clbuttic idea! 2008 December 28, Bill Marcum, “Happy Boxing Day! Group”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):
   • And sometimes such changes are done automatically, with no chance for review -- either for "security" reasons, when Yahoo Mail started replacing 'eval' in *emails* with 'review' (The Hindu carried an article about "the world of medireview Indian history", others on 'reviewuate'), or for "profanity" reasons ("fixing" 'ass' and 'tit'), of which "consbreastitution"^([sic]) is a clbuttic embarbutting example. 2009 April 10, shreevatsa, “Spellcheck is your fiend”, in pun-ctilious (Usenet):

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clbuttic en · NOUN

Etymology

A modification of the word classic by automated string substitution of ass for butt.

Meanings

1. A type of error in which some bowdlerizing software garbles words by using tamer alternatives to replace objectionable words occurring within a word.
   • Profanity can also be found in-between a name. My solution will not detect the profanity in the name “ArAssvin” and that’s because of the clbuttic mistake. 2013, Arvin Moradi, Smart Clustering System for Filtering and Cleaning User Generated Content: Creating a profanity filter for Truecaller (Thesis, KTH School of Information and Communication Technology):
   • Indeed, the error is similar to the “clbuttic effect” described above—an errant text filter attempting to “clean up” text by replacing offensive terms with theoretically more appropriate ones. 2010, Benjamin Mako Hill, “Revealing errors”, in Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures:
   • This last phenomenon is sometimes referred to as ‘the clbuttic effect’, named in honour of the mangling of the word ‘classic’ by over-zealous obscenity filters. 2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology, →ISBN, page 21:
   • For the mistake to occur, the letters ass are transformed into the (presumably less offensive) word butt, leaving you with a text full of clbuttics—not to mention the potential for mbuttive (massive) quantities, someone pbutting (passing) a football, and so on. 2013, Tom Chatfield, Netymology, →ISBN, page 21:

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medireview · Scunthorpe problem · reviewuate · buttbuttin · retrireview