Books teach teen Calibans to curse

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 18 12:37:56 UTC 2012


http://news.yahoo.com/teen-books-feature-r-rated-language-115434637.html

Also notice the construction, "she doesn't advocate for censorship."

Now, if I'd had to guess, my guess would have been that to "advocate for"
means to head for the public fora with one's advocacy, rather than simply
to "advocate" or personally recommend.  But then I'm not a native
Inglish-speaker.

JL

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