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  • Liana@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    5 days ago

    I think they were using the technique of adding periods for emphasis:

    AS. IN. THE. CASE. OF. NORMAL. SENTENCES.

    They must have missed that that’s not the way you’d emphasize a word by spelling it, and should instead have typed Z-E-R-O.





  • Liana@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    5 days ago

    That was my first thought, then I remembered that ‘v’ was originally the symbol for ‘u’ (which is where we get ‘w’, double-u from). This is the only example in which over-the-top censorship gets a pass from me, though there’s very little chance OP knew that, I think.