[Ads-l] How the Los Angeles Times deals with obscenity

[Laurence Horn]

There’s apparently a Netflix original series that earns a perfect 100 Rotten Tomatoes score and that may or may not be titled “The End of the F***ing World”.  I don’t know if that’s a bowdlerized (or, since it’s British, bowdlerized) version of its actual name, or if that really is its actual name, ***s and all.

LH

> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Why doesn't anybody say "friggin'" anymore?
>> 
>> When I was in college, with my skin-clad paleo friends, it was still a
>> frequent alternative.
>> 
>> It's been ousted by "fricking," for no obvious reason.
> 
> And, lest we forget, “freakin’”
> 
> LH
>> 
>> JL
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
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>>> Checking the web, it seems like “I’m f—ing scared right now” is an
>>> alternative rendering of Minoff’s tweet, along with “I’m [expletive]
>>> scared…”, “I’m **** scared…”, “I’m ___ing scared”, and (from Time) “I’m
>>> f—king scared…”.  Arguably, unlike “shithole countries”, this is not a case
>>> in which the taboo item is necessarily germane to the news story.  Some web
>>> stories embed the actual quote with “I’m fucking scared right now” and then
>>> gloss it in the text of the article as “I’m f—ing scared right now”, e.g.
>>> http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/
>>> national/article200145234.html
>>> 
>>> LH
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 12:48 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Freshman Aidan Minoff live-tweeted the shooting from inside the classroom
>>>> where he was hunkered down with others. "My school is being shot up and I
>>>> am locked inside. I'm _…_ scared right now," he wrote.
>>>> 
>>>> My school is being shot up and I am locked inside. I’m _fucking_ scared
>>>> right now. pic.twitter.com/mjiEmPvGNb
>>>> 
>>>> — Aidan Minoff (@TheCaptainAidan) February 14, 2018
>>>> 
>>>> www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-florida-school-shooting-
>>> 20180214-story.html#nt=tertiarynavbar
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>>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>> -Mark Twain
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