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From: liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: f*cking
Message-ID: <223@cvl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 22:25:56 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 22:25:56 1985
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> To those who substitute '*' for the vowels in words like 'fuck', and even
> 'nigger':  why do you do this?  Do you think it hides what you are really
> saying?  Are you afraid that if you spell it out we will think you are a
> foul-mouthed barbarian, but that if you '*' out some of the letters
> then it makes you look like a sophisticate?
> 
> If you're going to say FUCK, fer chrissakes SAY FUCK!!!
> 
> amanda
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> got a new mailer??  oh, USE it on me, baby!!

Actually, *'s are often times used to ward off legal-sort of hassles.
i.e. F*CK, UN*X...  the actual meaning is quite obvious but one can always
claim otherwise.

-eli
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