Hi Allen, Thank you for your fast response. I had to respond to a complaint from my students regarding this issue and that is why I sent the email to you earlier. However, as I think more about what this file really is, it is a dictionary. And in fact I used the list in one of the assignments to do spell-checking of online pulled txt files like Shakespeare, constitution and other documents. Removing proper English words from the dictionary will render these tasks impossible, or it will actually pull out the racial slurs in Shakespeare as misspelled words. I am not sure what is the best approach to this problem. The whole world is becoming a lot more sensitive and this year made things even more difficult. Again, thank you so much for your fast response. And our students and I really appreciated using your textbook Think Python this semester. It was so well written and a not too heavy read that gets straight to the point. Yanling Wang

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On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:36 PM Allen Downey ***@***.***> wrote: I've removed words I thought most likely to be problematic, especially in the context of a class. I am open to suggestions for additional removals. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AKEISKWBH3YQ4VSIDTDDTFLSVER5NANCNFSM4U6RBHZA> .

Offensive/racist words in words.txt #5

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