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F-ing ugly.

As much as I like this column, I've always hated the *cough* word "fugly". Either use "Fucking Ugly" or just simply "Ugly" (Or hell, even "F*ing Ugly" if you insist on trying to marry swearing with PC-ness). But none of this making up redundant words nonsense.

Also, may I take this opportunity to point out that I find it quite odd that this article mentions that it's good to be able to customize one's computer, and yet, the text in these comment-entry fields are completely unreadable for people who, like me, have customized their system to use light-on-dark, thus forcing them to, as I'm doing now, write their comments in something sensible, like notepad, and then copy-paste them into this "Fugly" comment box. Talk about pots calling kettles black.

"But none of this making up redundant words nonsense."

Fugly is a perfectly cromulent word. English, unlike Latin, is a living language which means words come and go.

It was a rhetorical question. I know what the contraction represents. I was a little surprised that someone would create a program and call it by that name.