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

Sat Feb 17 22:08:11 UTC 2018

See, I'm extremely old now, especially by my former standards.

I remember one incident (or was it a New Yorker cartoon? Getting harder to
tell the difference) when two skin-clad cave persons were exiting a cave on
whose walls could be seen hand prints and primitive drawings of
now-departed beasts.

Cave Person 1 to Cave Person 2: "The man's a genius. There's nothing left
to paint!"

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I was there.

JL

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Feb 17, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU>
> wrote:
> >
> > There is also a fairly frequently-produced play based on Chekhov's The
> Seagull, called, varyingly:
> >
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/theater/review-stupid-
> bird-is-chekhov-for-the-21st-century.html
> >
> > and
> >
> > https://www.theatreanddanceatwayne.com/bird/
> >
> > which is seen on posters all over our campus.
> >
> > Interestingly, the Wikipedia entry does not censor the title:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupid_Fucking_Bird
> >
>
> Maybe not, but I’m partial to the way the title appears in the second of
> these links that includes the seagull’s contribution--two expletives (if we
> count “birdshit”) for the price of one.
>
> LH
>
> >
> > Geoffrey S. Nathan
> > WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> > Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
> > http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
> >
> > geoffnathan at wayne.edu
> >
> > Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never send it
> to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email  looks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Baker, John <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM>
> > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 8:55 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: How the Los Angeles Times deals with obscenity
> >
> >
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> > Poster:       "Baker, John" <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: How the Los Angeles Times deals with obscenity
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> >
> > The series is indeed named The End of the F***ing World. It=92s 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,
> alth=
> > ough 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:l=
> > aurence.horn at YALE.EDU>> wrote:
> >
> > External Email - Think Before You Click
> >
> >
> >
> > There=92s apparently a Netflix original series that earns a perfect 100
> Rot=
> > ten Tomatoes score and that may or may not be titled =93The End of the
> F***=
> > ing World=94. I don=92t know if that=92s a bowdlerized (or, since it=92s
> Br=
> > itish, bowdlerized) version of its actual name, or if that really is its
> ac=
> > tual name, ***s and all.
> >
> > LH
> >
> >> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
> <mailt=
> > o:laurence.horn at yale.edu>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> <m=
> > ailto: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, =93freakin=92=94
> >>
> >> LH
> >>>
> >>> JL
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Laurence Horn <
> laurence.horn at yale.edu<=
> > mailto:laurence.horn at yale.edu>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Checking the web, it seems like =93I=92m f=97ing scared right now=94
> is=
> >  an
> >>>> alternative rendering of Minoff=92s tweet, along with =93I=92m
> [expleti=
> > ve]
> >>>> scared=85=94, =93I=92m **** scared=85=94, =93I=92m ___ing scared=94,
> an=
> > d (from Time) =93I=92m
> >>>> f=97king scared=85=94. Arguably, unlike =93shithole countries=94,
> 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 =93I=92m fucking scared right now=
> > =94 and then
> >>>> gloss it in the text of the article as =93I=92m f=97ing scared right
> no=
> > w=94, e.g.
> >>>> http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/<http://
> www.bellingha=
> > mherald.com/news/nation-world/>
> >>>> national/article200145234.html
> >>>>
> >>>> LH
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 12:48 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM<mailto:
> hwg=
> > ray at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Freshman Aidan Minoff live-tweeted the shooting from inside the
> classr=
> > oom
> >>>>> where he was hunkered down with others. "My school is being shot up
> an=
> > d I
> >>>>> am locked inside. I'm _=85_ scared right now," he wrote.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My school is being shot up and I am locked inside. I=92m _fucking_
> sca=
> > red
> >>>>> right now. pic.twitter.com/mjiEmPvGNb<htt
> p://pic.twitter.com/mjiEmPvGN=
> > b>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> =97 Aidan Minoff (@TheCaptainAidan) February 14, 2018
> >>>>>
> >>>>> www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-florida-school-shooting-<http:
> //www.latim=
> > es.com/nation/la-na-florida-school-shooting->
> >>>> 20180214-story.html#nt=3Dtertiarynavbar
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> -Wilson
> >>>>> -----
> >>>>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> t=
> > o
> >>>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> >>>>> -Mark Twain
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