How does radio in 2011 deal with this?

[Peter Murray]

I first heard the "F**k You" song on RDS in Italy, completely au
naturel. It isn't just that the Italians weren't hearing it in their
native tongue - I heard Puddle of Mudd's "She F**king Hates Me" on
RTE's 2FM in Ireland uncensored on the car stereo there, and even the
DJ commented "Sing along with the naughty bits .."

-Peter


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com> wrote:
> I don't think it matters whether there's some linguistic pattern among the
> vulgar and polite words.  That doesn't invalidate their categorization as
> vulgar or polite.  Like all language, such categorization is a social
> convention.   In a medium of social communication, there is good reason to
> acknowledge the favored or disfavored status of words, much as we
> acknowledge the standard or marginal status of word spellings and
> pronunciations.
>
> --RC
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> On 03/16/2011 12:41 AM, A Joseph Ross wrote:
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>> On 3/15/2011 1:06 PM, Doug Drown wrote:
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>>> The word in question, however vulgar and reprehensible, is so
>>> ubiquitous nowadays that to censor it is almost tantamount to
>>> pretending it doesn't exist. What's needed, perhaps, is a reasoned
>>> public dialogue on the coarsening of American culture (which, in all
>>> probability, will be largely ignored).
>>> Sadly, yeah, I can envision the FCC waving the white flag. -Doug
>>
>> Oh come on, vulgar and reprehensible. "Vulgar" words are simply the
>> short, Anglo-Saxon words for certain bodily functions and parts. Words
>> of Latin origin with the exact same meanings are "polite." It's a
>> remnant of the period following the Norman conquest of England, when the
>> language of the ruling class was "polite" and the language of the common
>> people was "vulgar."
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