Indiana bans linguistics

[Galen Buttitta]

It means "Don't try to be clever and sneak obscenity past the radar", that's all.

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> On May 9, 2014, at 10:55, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Among the Indiana BMV's potentially prohibited vanity plates:
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> Messages that involve linguistics, numbers, phonetics, translations from
> foreign languages or upside-down or reverse reading to reference any other
> prohibited numeric and letter combination.  (IndyStar, May 9, 2014, p. A6.)
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> I'm not sure what that means.
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> Herb
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