Looks like profanity, but it isn't.

[ZapperZ]

In my latest journal entry, I made a mention of the authors of a popular E&M text. The authors' names were Landau and Lif****z (this will have *** in it). I know the software automatically censor off words such as this. Is it possible to override this for that particular posting? I swear that this isn't anywhere close to being a profanity. I'm sure someone else can verify that such a text and authors really existed.

Zz.

 

[mattmns]

Use bold or underline or italics and split the cuss word.

For example

<b>Lifsh</b><b>itz</b>

where

< = [
> = ]

Lifshitz

 

[ZapperZ]

Use bold or underline or italics and split the cuss word.

For example

<b>Lifsh</b><b>itz</b>

where

< = [
> = ]

Lifshitz

Sneaky! :)

Zz.

 

[dextercioby]

Use the German transcription:LIFSCHITZ...

Daniel.

 

[Clausius2]

The system has erased the name not because it would sound impolite. Rather I think it is ashamed of it, because the correct spelling is:

Rudolph Lipschitz.

References:
-http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Lipschitz.html

-Tom M. Apostol, "Calculus", 1998.

 

[ZapperZ]

Use the German transcription:LIFSCHITZ...

Daniel.

That could work too. I feel bad about bastardizing his name.

Zz.

 

[dextercioby]

The system has erased the name not because it would sound impolite. Rather I think it is ashamed of it, because the correct spelling is:

Rudolph Lipschitz.

References:
-http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Lipschitz.html

-Tom M. Apostol, "Calculus", 1998.

You're talking about another guy,a German,a mathematician.

Zapper meant Evgenyy Mikhailowitch Lifschitz,the RUSSIAN PHYSICIST...


Daniel.

 

[honestrosewater]

Eh, so I'll PM it. I suppose someone could still figure it out if they really wanted to.

 

[dextercioby]

You know,your ideas might be interpreted in another fashion...As any obscenity may skip the banning...

Daniel.

 

[Clausius2]

You're talking about another guy,a German,a mathematician.

Zapper meant Evgenyy Mikhailowitch Lifschitz,the RUSSIAN PHYSICIST...


Daniel.

Are you joking? I have searched that guy without success. Either he doesn't exist, or he discovered the popcorns. :rofl:

 

[Gokul43201]

Are you joking? I have searched that guy without success. Either he doesn't exist, or he discovered the popcorns. :rofl:

He just happens to be a co-author (with Landau) of perhaps the most widely read texts on Field Theories (both classical and quantum) - so he's a household name to anyone in physics.

 

[dextercioby]

It's not fair not to remember the authors of a book,even though one of them was a Nobel Prize winner and the other not.As you Americans probably use the syntagma "Feynman and Hibbs" when speaking about the famous book,so do we,Europeans about "(Lev Davydovitch) Landau and (Evgenyy Mikhailovitch) Lifschitz"...

Daniel.

 

[arildno]

It's not fair not to remember the authors of a book,even though one of them was a Nobel Prize winner and the other not.As you Americans probably use the syntagma "Feynman and Hibbs" when speaking about the famous book,so do we,Europeans about "(Lev Davydovitch) Landau and (Evgenyy Mikhailovitch) Lifschitz"...

Daniel.

The only Russian sounding name I'm able to remember, is Nicolaj Ivanovich Lobachevsky, and that's only because an American mathematician made a song about him.

 

[dextercioby]

You've never heard of Mendeleev,Pavlov,Tchaikowsky,Tolstoy and other million of famous Russians...?? :

That's fair,i've heard only of Sophus Lie...

Daniel.

 

[arildno]

All right, if I scratch my brain bloody, I might remember a few others.

Besides, you know about Niels Henrik Abel as well (in addition, possibly, (Carl) Stoermer)

 

[dextercioby]

Yes,Abel was a known mathematician.

Daniel.

 

[Nereid]

Shall we try Arabic, Chinese, Thai, ... anglicisations are nothing if not inconsistent

 

[dextercioby]

It would be fair,if we had Russian fonts.That way,Lifschitz' name would be in the original form.

Daniel.

 

[plover]

What, you mean like this?

Лев Давидович Ландау (Lev Davidovich Landau)
Евгений Михайлович Лифшиц (Evgenij Mikhajlovich Lifsh​its)
​

 

[dextercioby]

That's exactly what i meant.

Daniel.

 

[quantumdude]

Hmmmm, does it work if you use LaTeX? Let's see:

$Lif****z$

edit:

no

 

[quantumdude]

Use bold or underline or italics and split the cuss word.

For example

<b>Lifsh</b><b>itz</b>

where

< = [
> = ]

Lifshitz

]Sneaky! :)

Lifshits

Sneakier--No bold needed!

 

[Moonbear]

Lifshits

Sneakier--No bold needed!

Hmmm...this probably will work too, with less typing (I hope):

Lifshits

Edit: I guess not.

 

[honestrosewater]

$$Lifshi\\ts$$ (as long as they don't fix "\\"
$$\mbox{Lifshi}\mbox{ts}$$

 

[Evo]

Revered mentors and esteemed members leading the young astray by teaching them how to bypass the profanity filter.

I give honestrosewater a gold star for the most creative.

 

[motai]

COLOR=Black]Lifs[/COLOR]hits

Sneakier--No bold needed!

Ah that is convincing. Very convincing. I think we have a winner.

 

[plover]

Hmph, my non-bolded version (Lifsh​its) from last night was apparently so sneaky no one even noticed it. :tongue2:

(and its less typing than Tom's or using LaTeX... )

edit: honestrosewater's 2nd version definitely gets points for creativity.

 

[honestrosewater]

Hmph, my non-bolded version (Lifsh​its) from last night was apparently so sneaky no one even noticed it. :tongue2:

(and its less typing than Tom's or using LaTeX... )

How'd you do it? Use the code? That works: Lif****s. I used the code for s, 115. You just type & #115; without the space between & and the rest.
Edit: Eh, it works the first time (Lif****s), but the code is replaced by the letter the second time (after you preview or quote). So how'd you do it?
Oh, nevermind, I see you used code too. ​Lifsh​its. What is 8203? And why doesn't it work like mine?

 

[plover]

Unicode character 8203 (0x200b) is a zero width space. It's found in the "General Punctuation" code block. (Unicode code blocks)

Actually, it pretty much does work like yours. When you preview, the html entity is replaced by the character, in both the preview and the text box. I assume it gets re-encoded when the browsers transfers the data. The only problem is (in this case anyway, it's no doubt intended to work this way) it can be the location of a line break.)

Hmm, 0x202f is a "narrow no-break space", I wonder how that might look: Lifsh its

Hey! That looks fine, and won't produce an awkward line break.

 

[honestrosewater]

Unicode character 8203 (0x200b) is a zero width space. It's found in the "General Punctuation" code block. ( code blocks[/url)

Eh, I figured it was Unicode but couldn't find it in the index.

Actually, it pretty much does work like yours. When you preview, the html entity is replaced by the character, in both the preview and the text box. I assume it gets re-encoded when the browsers transfers the data.

115 is "s" in ISO-8859-1, what PF uses. The filter catches it the second time around.

Hmm, 0x202f is a "narrow no-break space", I wonder how that might look: Lifsh its

Hey! That looks fine, and won't produce an awkward line break.

Nice catch.
Oh, Unicode doesn't work in IE6.

 

[plover]

115 is "s" in ISO-8859-1, what PF uses. The filter catches it the second time around.

That's pretty much what I was saying. I guess I wasn't clear.

Oh, Unicode doesn't work in IE6.

I was wondering about that. It figures...

 

[quantumdude]

Hmph, my non-bolded version (Lifsh​its) from last night was apparently so sneaky no one even noticed it. :tongue2:

Eh, it's not all that sneaky from where I sit. My browser shows a square between the "h" and the "i" in your solution to this little problem.

I rule!

 

[plover]

Eh, it's not all that sneaky from where I sit. My browser shows a square between the "h" and the "i" in your solution to this little problem.

I rule!

Which browser are you using? Vanilla IE6? Or a variant? I'm just curious if the browsers based on IE also fail on Unicode.

Also, can you see the Cyrillic characters in my earlier post (#19)? (They show up in IE6 on my machine, but I have Eastern European fonts and such installed.)