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Old 03-24-2015, 04:47 AM   #47
RobertDDL
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
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.
This may as well (or even more likely) be censorship by the publisher than the author's own decision. But this is something that I'm simply not able to understand: when you read "f--" and know that it means "fuck," so that "f--" in the text basically serves as a logogram for "fuck," what difference can this possibly make to having it spelled out?
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