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

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Feb 16 19:37:19 UTC 2018


Then there’s “fork”, popularized in (and possibly limited to) the world of “The Good Place” (NBC-TV), as in “what the fork(?)"

LH

> On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:11 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> << Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the
> 1978-Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used
> throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a
> profanity in science fiction. >>  -----Wikip
> 
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