<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:07 AM Antoine Pitrou <<a href="mailto:antoine@python.org" target="_blank">antoine@python.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I don't know of specifically French linguistic taboos, so I'm unable to<br>
answer this. French culture generally doesn't ban words wholesale, even<br>
when used in quotes. The very idea that you can't *quote* something<br>
despicable is foreign here.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Russian has a handful of taboo word and a long tradition of censoring them, but most of such words have no English equivalent, so you won't see them in this forum.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, the "n-word" exists in Russian and is not a taboo, so like Antoine I have to trust the moderators on the graveness of the offense of spelling it out. Still, this whole discussion reminds me an old Russian joke: "A lesson in a kindergarten: ... and now, children, let's recite the words that you should never use."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>