The media – both sides – self-righteously
edit obscenities, racial slurs and crude language by deleting letters to avoid
using the entire word or expression.
Who's kidding whom?
People know exactly the actual
words used from both the context and the number of letters omitted which, not
coincidentally, match the full spelling.
50 years or so ago the term to
explain a word deemed inappropriate was "explicative deleted". At
least that expression did not, in effect, reveal the actual "bad"
word or expression.
A question: Why not simply omit the
foul language? It rarely conveys anything of value other than the user's
vocabulary deficiencies
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