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Originally Posted by GA Russell
However, if I wrote the app, I would not change the offensive word. I would do what Hammett did - print the first letter of the word and follow it with a long dash.
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Which reminds me of an old joke from Hamburg, Germany, in which Little Erna, the heroine of lots of jokes from Hamburg, is telling her mother that she isn't going to play with her friend Fritz anymore, because he knows so many dirty songs. Does he sing them? the mother asks. No, answers Erna, he whistles them.
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Originally Posted by meeera
I love that my parents trusted me to choose my own reading and let me pull from their shelves and from anywhere in the library, even where other adults may have thought I was reading "inappropriate" things.
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I can't get too worked up about the app though. If you look at the way the censored words are blocked on the screen, it will only get kids interested in finding out what is blocked. Nothing better if you want to nurture inquisitive minds.
Now I'll get back to reading my favourite SciFi author, Philip K. Johnson.