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kbenson
5 hours ago
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What about ^#%& as was traditional in newspaper comics strips?
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ElFitz
3 hours ago
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How about
"Pockmark!... Freshwater swabs!... Bully!.."
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"Amoeba! Bashi-bazouks! Chowderheads! Certified Diplodocuses! Nyctalop! Ectoplasm!"
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RugnirViking
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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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yehoshuapw
2 hours ago
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"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
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latexr
1 hours ago
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Known as grawlix or obscenicon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix
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lsofzz
4 hours ago
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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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