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Re:Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font by echelon on Sunday May 10, 2020 @08:15PM (#23137557)
I love and appreciate swear words. They're incredibly important as an act of protest and defiance against the prudes and the cultural censors.

The eventual normalization of swear words will show that we have won the battle.

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Re:Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font by klyrs on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:24PM (#23138308)
Once a word is normalized, speaking it is no longer cussing. ;)
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