Saturday, February 23, 2019

What the #$@!% are These?



If the stories were on TV, they'd be bleeped out. In print, the self-censoring of profanities had to have some placeholder. Those seemingly random keyboard symbols are called grawlixes. Vox explains their history, which goes back to the beginning of narrative comics. (via Laughing Squid)

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