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like for example, c*nt?
by lsofzz 15d ago
like for example, c*nt?
- kbenson 15d agoMaybe more like p**p, as in "that cunt p**ped in my yard"? I'll admit, it never once occurred to me that people might be using censored characters to provide more emphasis that a word is a swear, but I guess it does indeed do that, at least to the writer. Whether that comes across to the reader, and whether the writer cares that their intention was understood... I'm not so sure.
- lsofzz 15d agoHah. Yeah, I agree. It's one of those things I admit is `lost in translation` for sure.
- fc417fc802 15d agoWhat about ^#%& as was traditional in newspaper comics strips?
- ElFitz 15d agoHow about "Pockmark!... Freshwater swabs!... Bully!.." or "Amoeba! Bashi-bazouks! Chowderheads! Certified Diplodocuses! Nyctalop! Ectoplasm!"?
- yehoshuapw 15d ago"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
- RugnirViking 15d agoI was so disappointed when I tried reading tintin in other languages and found the dear captain was straight up using slurs in those. I wonder whether the english language ones have been edited over the years to remove that sort of thing
- johanvts 15d agoæselmassør, sortbørsgrosserer, søpindsvinefjæs, karnevalssørøver! Findes der en Haddock/Egon Olsen tiradegenerator derude?
- latexr 15d agoKnown as grawlix or obscenicon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
- kbenson 14d agoI interpreted that as indicating something was swearing without actually swearing. So, identifying something as swearing that isn't actually swearing.