Maybe more like p**p, as in "that cunt p**ped in my yard"?
replyI'll admit, it never once occurred to me that people might be using censored characters to provide more emphasis that a word is a swear, but I guess it does indeed do that, at least to the writer. Whether that comes across to the reader, and whether the writer cares that their intention was understood... I'm not so sure.
What about ^#%& as was traditional in newspaper comics strips?
replyHow about "Pockmark!... Freshwater swabs!... Bully!.." or "Amoeba! Bashi-bazouks! Chowderheads! Certified Diplodocuses! Nyctalop! Ectoplasm!"?
replyI was so disappointed when I tried reading tintin in other languages and found the dear captain was straight up using slurs in those. I wonder whether the english language ones have been edited over the years to remove that sort of thing
reply"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
replyKnown as grawlix or obscenicon.
replyHah. Yeah, I agree. It's one of those things I admit is `lost in translation` for sure.
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