ACNL's ridiculous profanity filter?

[Ami Mercury]

Viol means rape in french, maybe that's why?

THERE IS A VILLAGER WITH THAT IN THEIR NAME! VIOLET!

 

[WonderK]

THERE IS A VILLAGER WITH THAT IN THEIR NAME! VIOLET!

French speaking people don't look at that animal's name and think of "Viol". If Nintendo allowed us to say the word violet, some people might say viol and maybe there is a french speaking 8 year old who would see that. Nintendo doesn't takes risks when it comes to profanity.

 

[GlitterNailPolish]

It wouldn't let me use peanuts, even though there's an animal named Peanut, lol

 

[Ghostlyboo]

I was looking at the bad reviews on Amazon for Animal Crossing and apparently a villager was calling her daughter a "slut". I have no idea how that could have slipped.

 

[Campy]

This reminds me of Habbo. When you'd say something naughty they would replace the word or phrase with "bobba". At least in the Dutch version.

When you had stuff to trade, you'd say something along the lines of "I have X. If you want to trade, click me".

That apparently wasn't an okay thing to say because "click me" has "lick me" in it. I laughed so hard when I noticed they censored that part of my sentence.

Anyway, I've always noticed weird things with censorship in games. Some completely innocent stuff is considered wrong, while bad stuff somehow slips through the censor.

 

[matt]

ID love to be the one who thinks up words for this filter XD a job of swearing

 

[twerkstrider]

yeah, what wonderK said; this is also a game for the european region so slurs/swears in their lanuguage that is filtered out may interfere with some of the english words. there was another word (spice??? i think that was it) that is used as an insult towards middle eastern people or something??? (im not too sure of the origin, sorry!)

 

[Panduhh]

I don't have any problem with catch phrases. Just put symbols like "???" and it works just fine. I'll admit one of my villagers say's something very inappropriate but I seldom have outside visitors that aren't friends and if I ever were to trade her (not going to happen) I would change it.

 

[FireNinja1]

Reminds of that time in B/W with that Cofagrigus issue lol.

 

[Cookieblazer]

I put my villager rashers greeting as "swaggy as hell" most of my acnl friends are old enough so it's fine

 

[Nanaki]

Using symbols/letters with accents is a way to get around the censors if you need to. Like, about a month ago I made a pro-LGBT shirt based off a design of a real shirt, so I wanted to use the URL in the design name - FCKH8.com I had to swap out the K though. That one I kind of understand. However, another one of my designs is a shirt with mesh-overlay sleeves. So I wanted to call it "Mesh Sleeved Top". Nope, mesh is a bad word! So I tentatively attempt the word fishnet, expecting the same results...but no, it totally worked

 

[Hypno KK]

I think some of the results may seem nonsensical because of multiple countries getting the game, so words that wouldn't be censored in English get censored because they're rude in other languages.

I'm ok with the word censoring, since I know some people would be just glad to use the anonymity they'd get from playing the game to say graphically sexual or threatening stuff to people, and the game is recommended for age 3 and up (if I recall correctly) so there's probably lots of young kids playing this game. I just wish they'd be smarter about the world filter, so that if it was included in an actual word it wouldn't be censored out. Names like Violet, Violetta, etc. are very common worldwide, so it makes no sense to censor it. Plus, if people trying to use that circumvent the censoring, the results would just be too ridiculous (and confusing to younger, clueless players) enough that it wouldn't be an issue.

As to weed, I don't think it should be censored. As a kid I'd heard about drugs already, even if it was in a very simplistic manner, and kids probably hear the word "weed" a lot in connection to random wild plants (not necessarily the drug). Even the game uses it in that way! If a player came up to another player and said "I like to smoke weed" and the other player was a kid who didn't know about weed, they'd probably just assume the other person was joking and not think too much of it.

Also, amusingly, when I was TTing to get a villager out of my town, when I was creating a new character to check the map I'd name that character "poop" and it was allowed.

 

[Rendra]

I tried to give Opal (elephant) the catch phrase "peanut", but because it had "nut" in the word it wouldn't allow it. So I put in an extra "u" or two and it then worked.

 

[Fernie]

I have been making pro designs of World Cup soccer shirts to put in the Able Sisters' shop, and was naming them according to the country they represent. I made one for the English soccer team, but when I tried to name it England the game told me I can't use that word. Can't for the life of me figure that one out.

 

[epona]

wait why is viola/violet/violetta blocked

 

[MoonlightAbsol]

It wouldn't let me use 'spice' for some reason? Anyone have any ideas why?

 

[BluebellLight]

I feel your pain. I attempted to name one of my mayors "Viola", only to be told that I "can't use those words". I do know the reason why, but it seems that they utilize the same name filter as the Pok?mon games. It's nonsensical at best, but I don't see them changing it anytime soon.

You can get around it by using a capital I instead of a lowercase L! They look the same in game

 

[kitanii]

It won't let you use ravioli either. :S

 

[Zane]

It wouldn't let me use 'spice' for some reason… Anyone have any ideas why?

Take the e off and it's an ethnic slur, is my guess.

 

[Birdinator]

I have been making pro designs of World Cup soccer shirts to put in the Able Sisters' shop, and was naming them according to the country they represent. I made one for the English soccer team, but when I tried to name it England the game told me I can't use that word. Can't for the life of me figure that one out.

"gland" maybe?