CNN follies

[Jonathan Lighter]

I think "graphic" in sentence one means "plain and unmistakable to the sight."

And "explicit" is "flagrantly sexual or sexually obscene."

IMHO.


JL

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> Correct!  But don't forget "This [news] report contains scenes of a
>> graphic nature" and CDs labeled "Explicit lyrics."
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> My favorite is still "substance-free dorms/floors".
>>
>> If "ancestor" can come to mean "descendant" as well, why shouldn't
>> "amputee" come to mean "a person born without one or more limbs"?
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> --especially once those "personhood" amendments pass.  After all, if you're a person at conception, as long as God removes your limbs before birth, you're a congenital amputee.
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>> Not
>> that I'm endorsing either development, but my lack of endorsement
>> won't stop anybody.
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>> So...what precisely do "graphic" and "explicit" mean in the CNN sentences?
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>>
> it's just "sexually"-deletion (no body parts harmed)
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> LH
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>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:56 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> You can thank the overuse of "graphic violence" for the first one. The
>>> second one is contracted from "chronically ill veterans". There is no
>>> excuse for the third and the fourth may well be avoidance of the same use
>>> of "graphic".
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>>> VS-)
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>>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> Spot and define the strange item in each sentence, all heard today on CNN:
>>>>
>>>> "He witnessed a graphic sexual act betwen Sandusky and a ten-year-old boy."
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>>>> "It's mainly the chronic veterans that are homeless."
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>>>> "He's a congenital amputee, born without arms or legs."
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>>>> "He saw an explicit and horrible act."
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>>>> ("A graphic act" was used at least twice, many hours apart, by
>>>> different speakers.)
>>>>
>>>> JL
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