I recently wrote a review on Suzuki Zeus and being an amateur in the field, had a lot of difficulty in posting it.

The first hiccup was when it did not permit me to use the other word for a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus, related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden consisting of three letters and starting with ‘a’. Trust you got the word.

What I wanted to write was “And how can I hold an argument with the scoundrels at the petrol station who day by day in every way become better and better in making a perfect ... of you?”

So I had to substitute the bad word with “idiot” which doesn’t quite give the effect of ...!

The other word it did not allow was a more or less cylindrical depression formed on the road by the grinding action of the debris in eddying water a word beginning with p and ending with e and letters o, t, h, o and l in between. The warning was that I should not use the world hol_. And so I had to subsitute the word ‘crater’ for pothol_.

This is very frustrating. If Mouthshut would publish a list of bad words that are not to be used in reviews, we can avoid these words at the drafting stage itself and help remove a lot of our frustration and help us live more happy and fulfilling lives even before the year 2020.

Cheers

George