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		cstross on July 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” accor... Same goes for vernacular Scots, where the F-word isn't far off being verbal punctuation, roughly equivalent to "eh" in Canadian English.

Intermernet on July 26, 2014 [–]

Yes, but "Fook" isn't actually a swear word anywhere except Scotland, so it's ok.

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