[lg policy] TSA bans reading on international flights

[Anthea Fraser Gupta]

Headline very scary -- but they have only banned it in the last hour.

Meanwhile, Australia is allowing knitting again.

The linguistic policy issue is the total and utter banning of jokes (be serious in airports). There are almost certainly some issues about speaking The Wrong Language too (as well as wearing The Wrong Clothes and have The Wrong Appearance, of course).

Anthea
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Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
<www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg>>
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From: lgpolicy-list-bounces+a.f.gupta=leeds.ac.uk at groups.sas.upenn.edu [lgpolicy-list-bounces+a.f.gupta=leeds.ac.uk at groups.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Baron [debaron at illinois.edu]
Sent: 28 December 2009 07:32
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Subject: [lg policy] TSA bans reading on international flights

There's a new post on the Web of Language<http://bit.ly/weblan>:

TSA bans reading on international flights

On Christmas day, a man from Nigeria tried to blow up NW 253, a transatlantic flight about to land in Detroit, by using explosive chemicals sewn into his underwear. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) immediately responded to this new terrorist threat by ordering passengers not to read during the last hour of their flight.









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