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		azernik 89 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into on... G-d is not your parents, and set and worded His rules with omniscience that your parents do not have.

pnut 88 days ago [–]

Is character substitution a clever rule hack also?

azernik 88 days ago | [–]

No. As an extension of the rule about not taking his name in vain, and rules about preserving written instances of the name, observant Jews try not to refer to him explicitly. There's a bit of a dysphemism treadmill involved, but oh well.

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