And Boyo Jim, I agree that it’s stupid for people to write “st" or "fk”. The whole purpose of writing is to represent words and convey ideas. If someone considers a word too offensive to convey, they should redact it in full. If they wish to convey the word, they should convey it in full. Replacing a couple of letters with asterisks is really just like saying “I’m using a dirty word, but I know it’s dirty, so please don’t judge me,” or “'scuse my French.”
Or, what DinoR said.
I do, however, enjoy creative substitution of swear words.
Examples:
Fantastic Mr Fox: “If you’re gonna cuss with somebody, you’re not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!” (Spoken by Bill Cussing Murray)
Judge Dredd: Grud, drokk, stomm, frak
Yes Prime Minister: “overwrought as a newt”
Oh yeah, me too. Save it for those special weddings, aunt Petunia’s 80th birthday, little Tammy’s 3rd grade graduation and of course Smacked in the Nads Day.
First, it’s not reasonable to ask everyone on this fucking board to sculpt content just so that one asshat can browse at work without offending colleagues.
Second, any random thread said asshat opens may contain swear words. Why is it any different if a thread contains swear words, versus if a list of threads contains swearwords?
Third, if someone has offenderati colleagues that read over their shoulder to scrutinize a page of 10-point font on someone else’s monitor, looking for swear words and then getting agitated when they find one, those colleagues should be told to mind their own fucking business and stop looking for ways to be offended.
One of my first jobs in IT was to write a program that checked passwords for obscene words, and disallowed them. So that the secret password, which no one was supposed to know,would not offend anyone.
In her youth, my mom would swear like a drunken sailor. There’s a family story that as a golden-haired, blue-eyed, angelic-looking little tot, I picked up on some of her more colorful phrases. And once told my dad to go shit in his hat.
This is one problem with this board- too many self-entitled assholes, who if you ask them to do something that costs them nothing, they will refuse to do it out of spite or idiocy.
Japanese. Seems there are a number of Japanese family names with that set of characters in it, e.g. Takeshita, Matsushita. Apparently the kanji characters for the “-shita” suffix mean “below/under,” so for example Takeshita might be the Japanese equivalent of “Underwood.”
Under Jewish law, anything containing the name of G-d is sacred. It can’t touch the ground. It can’t be defaced or dishonored in any way. It can only be disposed of in a special ceremony. In order to avoid creating sacred text, a letter is replaced with hyphen, dash etc.
Under the ruling of every rabbi and scholar I’ve ever read, pixels on a computer screen lack a concreteness and permanence and don’t count. BUT, if somebody prints out that text on paper then the laws on sacred text applies.
