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A Word For That

Grawlix2

In case you wondered: "What does one call the use of random non-alphabet characters to indicate cursing ?"

(thank you jonathan)

July 17, 2008 in made me look |

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Prescott Perez-Fox

"Grawlith" reminds me of the Pokémon named "Growlithe." Oh, I miss my university days.

Posted by: Prescott Perez-Fox | July 17, 2008 at 08:03 PM

mollie

it reminds me of the song that Big Bird sings about the alphabet where he combines all the letters into one word.

Posted by: mollie | July 18, 2008 at 12:50 AM

Choubelle

thats really cool! I love your site, mind if I add you as a link on mine? :D
www.choubelle.wordpress.com

Posted by: Choubelle | July 19, 2008 at 11:32 AM

&^%*$%^(

When this is used in a comic the shape that surrounds it is called a maledictus balloon so I assumed this assemblage of characters would be called maledictus. I think I like that better than grawlith.

Posted by: &^%*$%^( | July 20, 2008 at 12:26 AM

Marc

never heard of either of the above terms, but I've heard the act of censoring a word with non-letters as "hash-bang"

as in "you can't use that word, kids are going to read it. Better hash-bang it."

Posted by: Marc | July 20, 2008 at 09:35 AM

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