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[custardcream]

Windows phone is wonderful for those of us with a potty mouth. It completes the big ones right up:

http://imgur.com/FZv9HHu.png

Even in swype mode.

[nostrademons → custardcream]

I kinda like the hilarious autocorrects to "Oh, duck it!" or "I'm stuck in ducking traffic" or "Well duck, that sucks."

Words mean whatever I ducking want them to mean.

[xg15 → nostrademons]

This is why I never understood the reasoning behind the "sed s///" school of language censoring. Everyone who ... I don't know ... has actual conversations with other human beings should know that language is highly dynamic and context the pendant. Words take on - or lose - meanings all the time when the circumstances require it and all participants know what is talked about. Completely harmless words can morph into horrifying expletives over there course of just a few years if it's necessary - see "slut" or "douche". Forbidding certain combinations of letters does - if it does anything - only quicken that process. I do wonder how man many layers of dilbertesque organization you need for that idea to make sense.