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by taralx 4246 days ago
The inability to swipe offensive words when the setting is disabled is a bug. I can't give details, but the fix isn't easy and is being worked on.
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It won't accept "cock" or "suck", not together as in "cocksucker" but in isolation. It goes with "stuck" or "such" when I try to swipe "suck", and "chock" or "chick" instead of "cock". Thing is, these are not offensive words - they're just part of the English language. Other things get sucked apart from cocks. Quite a bug.
weird I have no problem with cocksucker. All I did was type it once, select it from the the available words/auto-complete section, then went back and tried to swipe cocksucker and had no issue.
There seems to be a difference between typing and swiping. If I peck it out one character at a time, no problem.
Interesting I have no issue swiping it. If i peck it in once then add it in the dictionary I can then swipe it.
you just need to add them into your library once, either in setting or by first typing the word and then selection it from the auto-complete section and you will be able to swipe any offensive word you'd like. the f* word was pissing me off so much and that seems to work just fine.
I got so pissed that I just decided not to do anything about it - hopefully people will get that duck is now an offensive word.

We keep at this long enough and every word is a swear word - and the devs can duck themselves.