Comment by kbenson
14 hours ago
Maybe more like p**p, as in "that cunt p**ped in my yard"?
I'll admit, it never once occurred to me that people might be using censored characters to provide more emphasis that a word is a swear, but I guess it does indeed do that, at least to the writer. Whether that comes across to the reader, and whether the writer cares that their intention was understood... I'm not so sure.
What about ^#%& as was traditional in newspaper comics strips?
How about "Pockmark!... Freshwater swabs!... Bully!.." or "Amoeba! Bashi-bazouks! Chowderheads! Certified Diplodocuses! Nyctalop! Ectoplasm!"?
I was so disappointed when I tried reading tintin in other languages and found the dear captain was straight up using slurs in those. I wonder whether the english language ones have been edited over the years to remove that sort of thing
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"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
Known as grawlix or obscenicon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
Hah. Yeah, I agree. It's one of those things I admit is `lost in translation` for sure.