Yes, and I've never been a fan of it: it's not like it hides what the word is supposed to be (with bleeps you often get part of the word anyway), and it seems to be done in the bizarre belief that children don't already know all those words from the playground anyway. Certainly, our readers are supposed to be big enough and ugly enough to know them, so what's the purpose of pretending they don't? As an addition, it's usually the case that the more respectable a publication is, the more it prides itself on treating readers like adults: tabloid newspapers over here will censor, but the broadsheets and former broadsheets will quote bad language precisely as it was said.
Last edited by Evil Tim; 07-18-2011 at 10:05 AM.
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