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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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.

And, lest we forget, “freakin’”

LH
> 
> 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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