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I wonder whether the four examples were chosen completely at random.

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Bien vu !

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Government banning of individual words is grossly inefficient, requiring a whole new bureaucracy in order to track usages and verify compliance.

I modestly propose eliminating individual letters of the alphabet instead. A good starting point would be those subversive characters that enable the fearsome "woke".

A pilot program might start with that notorious vowel suggested in James Thurber's classic "The Wonderful 'O'".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_O

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Quantum physicists will no longer be able to talk about Bell’s inequality - thus scuppering the emerging field of quantum communications. But hey, the chinese are already way ahead of us there.

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