why the trouble with "br"

[stevemacdonald]

Whenever I write the letter "r" after the letter "b" something funny happens.

Examples: b*ush, b*ash

Try it and see if it happens to you, too.

[HWI]

Yes it does. And I thought it was just my computer as no-one else had mentioned it.

Makes it a bit different doesn't it?

Keith.

[Joe]

I had noticed it as well, guys.

Let's have a bit of fun....
Brian's brother brought a bristle brush at a bring and buy!

[Dave]

I decided to test my powers and I think I've fixed it.

Keith will let me know if I haven't

[HWI]

Hi Dave,

What you done? A bit of brainstorming, a bit of imagination?

If you've fixed it, great.

And, as I said, I thought it was just my computer.

Keith.

[Susan]

It is not ONLY the "br" string which is awfully weird over here!

In a post yesterday, I attempted to write the phrase:
"my a-s-s-u-m-p-t-i-o-n" -- except, please understand that I originally typed the second word without any of the hyphens in between. I have inserted the hyphens *here* only because OTHERWISE this Proboards software completely changes the first six bytes in the string.

Apparently, when Proboards sees anything that starts with "m" , "y", followed by a space, followed by "a", followed by "s", "s"... it removes those six characters, and it substitutes the word "I" for "my" and then it substitutes the word "https://i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifisagree" for the three letters beginning with "a" followed by "s" followed by "s".

So, I was unable to say "my a-s-s-u-m-p-t-i-o-n"! When I typed it straight out, without any hyphens, it looked like this: my assumption

LOL!!!!!!!!!

[HWI]

This has to be a funny little quirk in the way that the software looks for censored words. The forum software already has a list of pre-programmed censored words and the letter groupings obviously give it a bit of a nervous breakdown.

Does make it interesting - and sometimes funny - trying to read some messages.

Keith.