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SCOUT· 50%26m·2025-09-08·Arts Culture216. Four Letter Words: Terisk
The Allusionist
Watching the film Legally Blonde one day with the subtitles on, numerous perfectly innocuous words were partially asterisked out, because of a technological problem I can't name here lest this episode be blocked from your podfeed, thus becoming an example of the problem itself. Who's to blame? A 900-year-old man from…
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