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Mad Cat:
I present the follow (non-exclusive) list of android vulgarities:

Seg Fault
Bee-SOD
404
mother board
install you
security bit (multiple context dependent meanings)
kludge

Storel:

--- Quote from: Schwungrad on 10 Jan 2016, 12:44 ---
--- Quote from: Nssheepster on 08 Jan 2016, 22:17 ---so perhaps AIs simply get a FULL language dictionary, and that's including cuss words and slang.

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I hope so. Otherwise their communication with humans would become quite error-prone. Programming sentient AIs to be the butt of unintentional comedy would be rather unethical. "I'm sorry, but my chassis lacks the anatomical properties for the act you suggested" should never have to be said in earnest bewilderment.

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At first I imagined hearing that in Data's voice, but C-3PO's voice seems much more appropriate. As Tasha Yar discovered, Data's chassis is fully equipped.  :wink:

BenRG:
It occurs to me that AIs would learn colloquial terms in the same way a biological would. The fact that their own physical selves would necessarily have different functions and not necessarily experience the same things doesn't mean that they won't understand the accepted meaning of the term and use it in the context intended.

sitnspin:
I use religiously themed expletives, like most people in western cultures do, even though I don't nor ever have actually believed in any of the things to which they make reference. I can only assume the case would be the same for sexual and scatalogical expletives were I also to not personally experience that to which those refer. You pick up the words and idioms to which you are exposed, that's just the nature of language.

bhtooefr:
Although I'm actually trying to purge religious expletives from my vocabulary, because they add legitimacy to the religions that they get their context from...

That said, some of the vulgarity of swear words is in their delivery. "Fuck" for instance is often used in contexts that are very much non-sexual (and even by sex-positive people). "Shit" is used for things that aren't fecal at all. "Bastard" is used for situations that have nothing to do with childbirth out of wedlock. Now, the connections to those terms may cast negative associations on the things they're associated with - using "fuck" as a negative swear word may actually be sex-negative, for instance - but the speaker isn't necessarily intending those associations at all. I mean, for a long time, I used Christian swears while being effectively atheist.

So, ultimately, I'd argue that an AI could easily use swears that are based in the context of biological people, quite easily, while not actually having the associations with the swears that a biological person would have.

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