<font face="verdana,sans-serif">I simply say: "So what?"</font><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Everybody has a different definition of vulgarity and what they personally consider what is vulgar and what not..</font></div>

<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">With all due respect, it's not their problem and definitely not their responsibility to decide whether WTF is vulgar or not..</font></div>

<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">After all, arguably, the vulgarity comes from the sentence "What the f--k", not "WTF" as "double u, ti, ef".</font></div>

<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Acronyms can represent pretty much anything you want them to represent; WTF = "Welcome To Facebook", "Wait 'Till Friday", etc..<br clear="all">

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Kristina Macaulay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristinamac@mac.com" target="_blank">kristinamac@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Lets ban every word in the dictionary or add the the reserved list….then maybe we could get a life and I think we will have resolved an aspect of the Internet overnight!!<br>
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On 27 Sep 2012, at 17:47, Fouad Bajwa wrote:<br>
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> If you walk into an H&M store into the female or male section, you<br>
> will see while colored T-Shirts carrying both of those strings and<br>
> pretty much popular amongst the same group that is being talked about.<br>
> So WTF, is it really that vulgar??? Should we have ICANN ban all that<br>
> slang out there?<br>
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> -- FoOdafied Culture!!!!!<br>
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