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June 6th 2006, 11:55 AM
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Tyrsis
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There is an interesting thing about swear words.
About any word may be concidered swear one.
You take a "real" swear and replace some letters.
Some time later everyone knows you swear if you say a substitute word.
Like say "jeez" - and somebody says it's the same as swearing,
or in russian - say "blin!" (rus. pancake) - and about everyone knows you say bl***
(the russian word one uses like "she-dog" addressed to nobody in particular)

So the swear filters lead to global language abusification .....