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Readers' Ombudsman: Asterisk decisions on offensive words lacked star quality



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Published Date: 08 September 2008
By Ian Stewart
THERE is no doubt about it, we've been getting ourselves tied in knots over offensive words and the asterisking thereof. (That's right, asterisk is officially a verb now.)
It started with the story about author Jacqueline Wilson who used a word in her latest children's book.

We printed "tw*t", deciding to asterisk out the "a". It is a strange word for a swear word, in that it appears to have two meanings, one a slig...



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  • Last Updated: 07 September 2008 10:40 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

truthsleuth,

08/09/2008 00:21:19
"f****n b*****d".
Is simply shorthand for
'sexually active born out of wedlock'
2

Conan the Librarian™,

08/09/2008 11:12:37
Mr Stewart, do something about the Scotsman's censorbot. Banning words like n i p for instance.

 

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