>OK, several people have had their 'fun' with showing how to bypass the UT scheme for uncut 4-letter words. (So much for the theory that if you allow kids to swear, they'll stop doing it after 15 minutes).
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>A request: can we all put a halt on whatever little trick you're doing to get your favorite words in there. I'm sure someone told me what the trick is, but I don't recall....and quite frankly, I really don't want to apply it to quoted text when I reply to someone who managed to drop a few little swear words into their posts.
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>I'm no puritan, anyone who knows me knows I can swear like a sailor, but can we all agree to save it for life outside the UT?
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>Thanks,
>Kevin

While swearing among people who have Tourrete Syndrome may not be extremely rare, it is indeed relatively rare, according to my reading. So I think Tamar is basically right. There are people who swear for other reasons (like, moste likely, the people you were complaining about), and there are people - like me and some of my brothers - who have Tourette Syndrome but don't swear... well, not more than the average population, and if we do swear it is totally unrelated.