what's with the asterixes ?

Dtpowell,

I didn’t say it was right, just that it has fallen into the slang terminology catagory instead of the offensive catagory. I think this comes from the fact that A-s-s is an actual word that refers to an animal as well as a body part, thus it falls in that vague catagory, unlike the C word and the F word.

Steamerfan,
It’s funny, we can type in the phrase “the F word”, everyone knows what it means, but if we actually type in THE F word, it gets censored. Like when you’re watching a program on TV and they blip out the word after bull…but everyone knows what it means too. Or if you’re watching the History Channel and some old guy from WWII comes on and says a word that usually gets censored, but in the context of WWII and the fact, I guess, that he’s an old guy, it isn’t censored. It’s a matter of context.

m

ROFL

I was a big Asterix fan as a kid - still have a few books somewhere. The fun part must have been trying to translate the characters names into English (they’re all strangely relevant)…

I recall reading somewhere that the reason there’s two spellings for a-s-s is due to the more prudish people of centuries ago - we have a word that sounds the same but is spelt with an r and an e, so the change of spelling was an attempt to “clean up” language - some things never change? [:)]. To me, that’s another name for a donkey rather than anything else!

It’s our “bad word filter” doing its job, sort of. The problem is it sees a bad work within a legitimate word.

I just made some adjustments that should help the cumberland problem, but b_r_a_s_s is difficult to overcome.

brass