Young adult books are full of swearing, BYU study says: And characters who curse are more successful, better looking | New York Daily News

[Victor Steinbok]

Yes and no. Right-wing propaganda and slanted/biased studies coming out
of BYU? Any day of the week. But NYDN has a left slant, not
right--you're confusing it with the NYPost. You're right on the
rest--almost. Snooki-hating is favorite pastime of lefty literati too.
Elites got to hate someone just like the regular folks... Snooki is an
inviting target, soon to recede into the woodwork of cancelled/completed
shows. For my part, I make fun of all reality shows--even ones I
watch--but I don't watch MTV and I've never seen a single episode of
Jersey Shore. Yet, somehow, I know who Snooki is and what she's known
for. Reaching audience beyond the demographic target qualifies as
"famous"--at least, by some criteria. I don't see much point debating
what famous means, let alone whether Snooki is famous. I can tell you
stories about "famous" (for many ESL immigrants, if it sounds familiar,
it's "famous"). But I won't. I just posted an item that I thought was of
general interest. Take it or leave it, but any calls should be made to
the BYU complaints department, not to me.

     VS-)

On 5/21/2012 7:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> And we wonder why Snooki is famous.
> This sentence, IMO, reveals this article to be nothing more that
> right-wing, fundamentalist propaganda. As one who has seen everything
> that has to do with Jersey Shore and Snooki on MTV and in Star - the
> sibling of the National Enquirer specializing in all kinds of "news"
> about "celebrities" - I can tell you that Snooki is in no way "famous"
> in the relevant sense. What she's best known - but not "famous" - for
> is  drunkenness, not wearing any underwear, and exposing her
> "scorched-earth" genitalia to public view, as a consequence thereof.
>
> There's no connection between Snooki's lifestyle and the use of
> random, well-known colloquialisms in literature for "young adults."
>
> BTW, how has it come t be the case that the writer of this screed can
> be familiar both with "bad" words and Snooki, yet be concerned only
> for the souls of others and not for his own soul?
>
> The guardian of morality always seeks to keep others from knowing and
> being "harmed" by what he himself knows, yet is not harmed thereby.
>
> I'm reminded of Bowdler, the Hays Code, the Index of Forbidden Books,
> and the Legion of Decency, not to mention official censorship by
> governments.
>
> Uh, not that this has anything to do with dialectology.
>
> --
> -Wilson

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