More euphemisms: "pervasive language"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"TV-14" seems to mean "Possibly to your taste if you've just turned 14.
Much older than that and you're likely to be bored and irritated."

JL

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:

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> On 3/17/2012 12:38 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> > I wonder whether one of the spurs to this narrowed usage might be the
> > frequent use of the big label L for "language" on television shows
> > and broadcast movies (not only at the start but when they come back
> > from commercial interruptions) as one of the options along with
> > S(ex), N(udity), D(rug use), V(iolence), and whatever else I'm
> > forgetting.
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> That is the decode I have been looking for!  I've not seen it before.
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