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Maybe the fr*nch aren't so bad after all
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Why did you censor the word "French?"
Or are you just not sure how to spell it, so you inserted a placeholder?
It's a glob pattern, it matches "franch", " frbnch", "frcnch", " frdnch" and so on
frnch also passes, as does freshjfcgreiheheckygncewdhynch
maybe they're like herzog
Werner Herzog would prefer not to speak fr*nch
Yeah i've notice this happen a lot with the word 'funk' too people be censoring weird words
Maybe someone can get upset by reading that word?
On a serious note, though, on my first semester at graphic design a teacher once told us that some day (here in Bogotá, Colombia) a punk wearing a jacket or something with a struck though swastica waiting for the bus near the uni. Some old lady saw him and the swastica and passed out on the spot. Apparently she was a jewish migrant or something. I never even imagined such things could happen here but the point was to be aware of the things you use in your communications
and by bypassing their filters with idiotic 'censoring', you expose them to it.
Must be US people? Because I don't know anyone else who is offended by "fuck" and ok with "f*ck".