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[Baker, John]

The series is indeed named The End of the F***ing World. It’s based on a British graphic novel named The End of the Fucking World. The graphic novel has been reprinted in the United States under the cover title TEOTFW, although in the interior the words are spelled out.


John Baker



On Feb 16, 2018, at 8:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU<mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>> wrote:

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There’s apparently a Netflix original series that earns a perfect 100 Rotten Tomatoes score and that may or may not be titled “The End of the F***ing World”. I don’t know if that’s a bowdlerized (or, since it’s British, bowdlerized) version of its actual name, or if that really is its actual name, ***s and all.

LH

> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu<mailto:laurence.horn at yale.edu>> wrote:
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>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM<mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
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>> Why doesn't anybody say "friggin'" anymore?
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>> When I was in college, with my skin-clad paleo friends, it was still a
>> frequent alternative.
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>> It's been ousted by "fricking," for no obvious reason.
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> And, lest we forget, “freakin’”
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> LH
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>> JL
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>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu<mailto:laurence.horn at yale.edu>>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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/<http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/>
>>> national/article200145234.html
>>>
>>> LH
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>>>
>>>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 12:48 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM<mailto:hwgray at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
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>>>> 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<http://pic.twitter.com/mjiEmPvGNb>
>>>>
>>>> — Aidan Minoff (@TheCaptainAidan) February 14, 2018
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>>>> www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-florida-school-shooting-<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-florida-school-shooting->
>>> 20180214-story.html#nt=tertiarynavbar
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>>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>> -Mark Twain
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