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What about ^#%& as was traditional in newspaper comics strips?
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How about "Pockmark!... Freshwater swabs!... Bully!.." or "Amoeba! Bashi-bazouks! Chowderheads! Certified Diplodocuses! Nyctalop! Ectoplasm!"?
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I 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
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"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
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Known as grawlix or obscenicon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix

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Hah. Yeah, I agree. It's one of those things I admit is `lost in translation` for sure.
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