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Old 01-27-2021, 01:08 PM   #85
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
Maybe, instead of asterisks, we can just re-arrange the letters in the words??

"It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae"
Is that what the UK store FCUK is up to?

As to why some posters use '**', some forum software has block lists for words.

As to why there is squeamishness for some words when equivalents are OK, I think it dates back to Anglo Saxon derived words being considered crude and vulgar and French derived words being considered more suitable for polite company.
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