On language users ´right to use slang vocabulary

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Interesting fact,Harold. How can the language user´s right to use slang
vocabulary be dealt with humanizingly ? Since language use reflects
emotions,can such usages be monitored effectively ? I wonder...
Francisco Gomes de Matos,Federal University of Pernambuco,Recife,BrazilQuoting
Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp at gmail.com>:

> New rules on bad language:
>
> NASCAR apparently issued a new policy in regard to conduct and
> language used by drivers during interviews, especially nationally
> televised interviews.
>
> Some drivers, including Dale Earnhardt Jr., have been fined and
> penalized, some would say rather severely, by NASCAR for using
> inappropriate words after winning races and during live TV interviews.
> In Earnhardt Jr.'s case, someone asked him how his success at
> Talladega Superspeedway compares to his dad's accomplishments.
> Earnhardt Jr. said "It don't mean shit." To be honest, Earnhardt Jr.
> was just telling the truth, but it cost him points in the standings
> and a hefty fine. Earnhardt Jr. was asked during media day at Daytona
> International Speedway earlier this week if he thought the new rules
> would take some of the anxiety off interviews.
>
> "No, because I don't believe them," said Earnhardt Jr., driver of the
> No. 88 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. "I don't think anybody
> does. What does that mean? Tell me? Are we supposed to walk the line
> and see where we step over it? Are we going to get fines when we go
> too far? What is it that they are saying?" Earnhardt Jr. said the new
> rules were made more for the media than for the drivers and teams.
>
> "I think honestly they are playing to you guys, they are not talking
> to the drivers, they are playing y'all," Earnhardt Jr. said. "I think
> it is basically they are trying to appear to be looser, when the
> message has not been relayed to the drivers as to what has been
> changed, it is just a press release went out to the press that said
> 'Hey, we are going to do this, how about that? You guys like that,
> right?' Really, what have they told us? I don't know what that means?
> What does that mean?"
>
> With or without the rules, Earnhardt Jr. said he learned his lesson
> from the incident at Talladega a couple years ago.
> "That was just a little card game between you two; it has really
> nothing to do with the drivers," Earnhardt Jr. said. "I don't feel
> like I have been holding back. There are words that I don't use, that
> I shouldn't use on national television. For me, I get to be the same
> because I don't feel like I have had to reserve myself too much."
>
> http://www.insidesocal.com/haddock/archives/2008/02/new_rules_on_ba.html
>
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