Words filtered by the forum

[J_Player]

Originally Posted by Qiaozhi

Ok I've changed it to allow words such as brass and assure.

Also JP ... the grammatically correct word to use in your example is "ensure" not "assure".

Assure is something you do to a person, a group of people, or an animal to remove doubt or anxiety, as in Squiggly assured Aardvark that he'd come to the party early. You can remember that assure can only be used with things that are alive (and both assure and alive start with a). Only things that are alive can feel doubt or anxiety, so only they can be assured.

Ensure is something you do to guarantee an event or condition, as in To ensure there'd be enough food, Aardvark ordered twice as much food as last year. You can remember that guarantee has those two e's on the end to help you remember that to ensure (with an e) is to guarantee something.

Insure can be done to a person, place, or thing, but it's reserved for limiting financial liability, most commonly by obtaining an insurance policy, as in Aardvark wondered if the caterers were insured against loss. You can remember that we take out insurance to protect our income if we become unemployed, disabled, or injured in an accident. Both insure and income begin with -in.

Finally, the related verb secure is used when you take possession of a thing or place, as in Aardvark secured a beautiful hall for his party, or when you make something stable or safe, as in Aardvark secured the welcome banner to the wall.

No Qiaozhi,
I believe you are wrong.
I think it is grammatically correct to use the words I used in the context which I used them.
What is grammatically correct in an international forum depends on what version of English you happen to be using at the moment.
I know more than three versions of English which are commonly used, with no clear definition of which is to be considered the correct version that is required in this forum.
And I could cite you hundreds of examples of grammar and spelling from the UK which are considered wrong in the USA. What difference does it make about grammar?
In addition, many members do not speak English as their first language, so they are limited in their vocabulary and grammar skills to what they were taught in their location.
We don't need added impediments to understanding what they mean to say.

But then diverting the discussion to grammar and aardvarks does not address the problem I observed.
I am reading many posts with various common words which are not "bad" words, yet they are filtered as if they must be censored because there is a fragment of a different word embedded in a perfectly good word which has no abusive content, or intent in the sentence structure.
There appears to be clearly an error when words are filtered which we often see printed in family websites and technical journals, yet we are not permitted to use the same words here.

This degree of filtering seems an extreme measure to me -- a measure that might be used to solve an "out of control" wave of attempts to pollute the forum with porn or something of that nature.
But since the removal of the one or two offenders who actually did this, I no longer see any emergency which requires deleting perfectly well intentioned conversations.

Best wishes,
J_P