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2D on Feb 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What features are missing from the English...

Ok this may sound stupid but I think there are a lack of words you can satisfactorarily substitute in for swear words. I know this as I gave them up for lent.

Also many people (example A: PG) with good vocabs still choose to use them.

suchow on March 2, 2015 [–]

If there were a word that you regularly substituted in for a swear word, wouldn't it then become a swear word? Do you mean words like "heck" or "freakin"?

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