[Ads-l] f------d

[Dan Goncharoff]

I find the decision to elide all but the first and last letters interesting.

I would use f---tard to differentiate from f---head, which I expect is
older.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021, 11:16 PM Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

> Does “fucktard” really only go back to the 1990s?  I didn’t check HDAS or
> The F-Word, but Green has it only as early as 1994.  It feels like I’ve
> heard it a lot longer than that.
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> It’s pretty striking to see “fucktard” spelled out right in the headline,
> in a story that elides “faggot” as “f—t.”  Since “-tard” obviously derives
> from “retarded,” the case for elision would seem at least equally as
> strong.  On the other hand, I’m not sure I would know what to make of a
> sentence in a news story that someone was called a “f------d.”
>
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