Diving into this, many have suggested it comes from Jewish tradition. I can dig that, but it's not consistently applied across the service.
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This song was written by someone who grew up in the bible belt, was raised Christian, and is now agnostic. So that's not a reason, per se.
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The song was written for the movie In Good Company, so maybe the parent record company sourced the lyric transcription?
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I've ordered the actual CD to see if this appears in the liner notes. I'm going to track this down.
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I am the first person to buy a physical CD in like 5 years. Let's see what the liner notes say.pic.twitter.com/9zIWvMPv07
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They say nothing! No lyrics here! The mystery of who censored the word and will live forever.
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Looking for patterns in mundane things is an important trait in data science. As is the willingness to fail at finding any.
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The Trapeze Swinger. Hm.
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This allows observant Jews to clean their cache without disobeying their deity
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I like that, I'm just curious if that is the reason, or if its an inherited benefit.
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source material could be from a Jewish publisher maybe? Wonder if there's even a way to know
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traditionally paper with the Hebrew Tetragrammaton was buried out of respect. Alternatives not needing burial are a thing.
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It's not the practice that surprises me, but the consistency (or not) of its application and I cannot discern a pattern.
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yeah, I imagine it's not Google but some upstream lyrics source(s?) that have it that way. That sample seems odd to me.
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