[Ads-l] How the Los Angeles Times deals with obscenity

Jim Parish jparish at SIUE.EDU
Fri Feb 16 22:28:49 UTC 2018


The webcomic "Footloose" uses "folk" for this purpose.

Jim Parish


On 2/16/2018 1:37 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> Then there’s “fork”, popularized in (and possibly limited to) the world of “The Good Place” (NBC-TV), as in “what the fork(?)"
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> LH
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>> On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:11 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> << Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the
>> 1978-Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used
>> throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a
>> profanity in science fiction. >>  -----Wikip
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>> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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