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23.3.06

The sixth letter of the alphabet 

LucireI’ve spent the last couple of days looking over the next , and pondered whether to let the f word go through uncensored. It’s in an excellent by Fiona Ralph about label . In the context, it is appropriate, and it was a direct quotation within another direct quotation—but eventually I stuck with (our) and replaced the uck with asterisks. Perhaps the act of doing so can be called uckstarring.
   It’s my ; it has to reflect my values, and I generally don’t cuss. There are some people I want to get aggro about, and yes, I have used the word, but only in extreme circumstances. If I used it all the time, I would lose a good word for exclamation (how does Samuel L. Jackson cope with those snakes on that motherf***ing plane? Shall we invent a more serious word—like snicklebock—and position it as even more ?). My decision may look today, and may look even more quaint in ten years’ time. But one rule of founder-run businesses is true: they retain the personality of that founder.
   Further, Lucire is a that has a about it, and if is not good enough for here before 9 p.m., then I don’t want the —who actually taught my first class in law school—breathing down my neck. I would prefer the magazine to be , even if all its other dealings are , honest and reflective of we live in. It tries to be productive as a magazine, which is why we reach some passionate, minded . It tries to reshape its world to how I would like to see it by being more positive and . Foul language just doesn’t seem to go with that . I leave the cursing to my competitors. (So, can you say the f word in ?)
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My Mum would say that substituting is as the same as saying the term, scolding me whenever I said "Fricking, Freakin', Fetchin'" and sometimes even "Fffffffffar out!"

People are gonna think the word when f**k or **** is read, so you'd probably have to omit the whole quote to change the world. ;).

However, from a "branding" perspective, the stars are the way to go. People might not notice omittence, but stars will say so much more about the personality Lucire than f**k.  
Thanks, Dan. It’s good to have your perspective as you are definitely hipper than me. It’s at the printer now, so I guess we really are dancing with the stars. Crap, did I just write that? Sorry … didn’t mean to swear just then …  
Bloody awesome decision, Jack! :-)  
Thanks, Sy! I guess you’ve heard about the usage of bloody in an ad for Australia, shown in the UK. The Brits found it objectionable due to the different use of the word there.  
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