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

[Jonathan Lighter]

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.

JL

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >
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