Banning Cassell's

[Baker, John]

        The Language Log post discusses an unsigned editorial in the
Guardian's Sunday Observer and a column by Joel Achenbach in the
Washington Post Sunday Magazine, both of which argued that taboo words
are precious commodities that lose their value when overused.  A
distinction between the two pieces, unremarked upon by Ben, is that the
Guardian appears to be entirely serious, while Achenbach is a humor
columnist.


John Baker


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I discuss the Wake County challenge (inter alia) in this Language Log
post:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003285.html


--Ben Zimmer

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