Since various major events have been moved to the Internet because of the corona pandemic, unexpected consequences have occurred time and again. In the United States, a filter for vulgar expressions has now shaken up the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP). In a question and answer session at the virtual event, the participants quickly noticed that certain terms had been filtered out by the software – including basic words for fossil researchers such as “bone”.

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Many vulgar synonyms As reported by the US magazine Vice, the researchers noticed the problem in the question and answer sessions that followed virtual presentations. A pre-installed filter in the software used by the company Convey Services has repeatedly filtered out certain terms in the written questions. According to a listing made public on Twitter, this included “bone” (next to “bones” also coarse for “intercourse”), “jerk” (not just “jerk”), “knob” (actually “grip”), “pubic “(” Shame “) or” stream “(” Bach “). The list is of course problematic for paleontologists, who regularly find “pubic bones in streams”, as one participant put it.

The provider quickly fixed the problem, the participants assure the US magazine. Most of the terms have therefore been approved. Until then, however, the participants had mostly had fun trying to replace the blocked words with other terms.

However, Z. Jack Tseng from the University of California encountered one problematic aspect. As he explained on Twitter, the term “Wang” was Tei