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Professor Zwicky, over at Language Log, has an interesting post about the use of avoidance asterisks versus real ones in a controversy over grading a GCSE exam (link).
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Yes. I read that and I wondered if, in the circumstances where someone had genuinely written an "f" followed by three asterisks rather than the full word for which avoidance asterisks are being used, someone quoting it could write "f*** (sic)" and be correctly understood.
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Yes, I read that, too. At least he pointed out that the couple of marks given for writing the obscenity was still a clear failing mark. Many of the tabloids here 'forgot' to mention that.
As was also mentioned in the post, different to has a long history of unchallenged use in English, until the mavens chose to challenge its use. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine! |
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