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Recently I played a game which is call **Vivid Army** and there's a little
conversation between me and this guy but I found that there's some word is
censored.

**7873 is me.** As you can see I have written **"hehe n**..."** but this is
not what I original wrote. What I wrote is **"hehe nice..."** So why the
**"i-c-e"** is censored?

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sPBdz.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sPBdz.png)

Here is another example of some word's that censored.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMwZC.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMwZC.png)

Is it those censored words mean swear word in Japanese?
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grammar words culture
Understanding censorship in the game "Vivid Army"
I don't see any reason these words (or combination of letters) should be
censored in Japanese language. To my full imagination, there are no slang,
rhyme, abbreviation or metaphor that makes these phrases offensive.

In [an unofficial wiki of the game](https://vivid-army.game-
info.wiki/d/%BE%AE%A5%CD%A5%BF%A1%A6%BE%AE%B5%BB#content_2), they list some of
the words/phrases that are sensored in the in-game chat. The writer seems to
agree with us; the description starts with "There are oddly many 伏字 (censoring
with **), which sometimes makes the chat incomprehensible".

Anyway, to read the article---

  * Some of the words are understandable as vulgar or violent; 殺す (to kill), ﾀﾋ (as in 死) etc.
  * Many words that can (ever) have political meanings are also censored; nations' names, 自由 freedom, etc.
  * Others includes those which are fine in Japanese, but seem to be censored in terms of Chinese language or government; "89", the kanji "操" (accordning to the wiki, it's a part of insulting phrase in Chinese).
  * However, many others are still very puzzling; "ri" (only in lower case), "コン", "ssa", "合成" to name a few.

Apparently the censorship is conducted in a least sophisticated way (see
[Scunthorpe problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem) as
suggested by
[@conman](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/16022/conman)). It is also
apparent that the administrators are very sensitive to any word they come up
with. However, these words or parts in your examples have no problem in
Japanese: they are false-positives.
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The programming group that wrote the censoring algorithm probably don't have
native English speakers on board, either that or their voices are simply
blatantly ignored.

have => h__v : "av" is abbreviation for adult video

nice => n___ : "ice" is another name for crystal meth.

future => __t__e : "fu" = f__k you, not so sure about "ur" though.

From observation, their algorithm seems to be: (1) Remove all spaces in the
text. (2) Search and replace all letter combination from a dubious "list of
offensive words".

(I don't think the Japanese are to be blamed for this. Given their craftsmen
ethics and mentality, in Japan, something as crude as this wouldn't be able to
set a single step past the quality (or even functional) review office.
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