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The PTC Will Have A Real "B----" On Their Hands

BRNout said:
They don't even have any real power. You want to see power? Say something with even a nasty connotation about gays or about a minority group and you'll feel power come down on you like a pair of SS jackboots. Followed by your career being placed in the garbage disposal.
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Even 25 years after the fact, like the retroactive censorship of the second verse of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. We've heard those "******" lines for 25 years now, and they are just NOW having a problem with it? Seems ridiculous to hear that song censored now, after hearing it UNcensored for 25 years!
 
This thread reminds me of the time that a lady wrote a scathing letter to our very family-friendly AC station to complain about the song Rich Girl by Hall & Oates because she was offended by the line "it's a bitch girl". Mind you this was probably about 15 years after the song was first released. The station owner who was usually very responsive to listener complaints told her that if she wanted to hear something offensive, she should switch stations and go listen to Howard Stern.
 
Good one!

dmargalotti said:
This thread reminds me of the time that a lady wrote a scathing letter to our very family-friendly AC station to complain about the song Rich Girl by Hall & Oates because she was offended by the line "it's a bitch girl". Mind you this was probably about 15 years after the song was first released. The station owner who was usually very responsive to listener complaints told her that if she wanted to hear something offensive, she should switch stations and go listen to Howard Stern.
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*LOL*

:D

Classic!
 
I used to think that such coarseness and vulgarity was going to destroy the English language.

But I have since concluded that texting will accomplish that objective long before naughty words will.
 
I think in this context, and really in any context regarding language, its important to language is an ever-evolving creature. The English we speak today sounds nothing like it did centuries ago, and I imagine back then there were purists who had great disdain for people who popularized the slang of the middle ages. Many of these words become common words used today by even the most proper of people.

I think its a little naive to think that language is static and changes won't happen. Yes, words that were considered vulgar 50 or even 20 years ago are now used freely on network tv (I've started to hear 'd*ck' on tv like nobody's business), but I think its reflective of a world in which technology forces changes to happen much more quickly and uniformly. As its been pointed out, though, words like 'bitch' have been effectively neutralized due to their common usage. I'm guessing we look back 200 years from now and 'bitch' and the s-word and the f-word will seem common and mundane and will have effectively been neutralized by their overusage.
 
"Its important to language is an ever-evolving creature. The English we speak today sounds nothing like it did centuries ago."

Pedantically speaking, most Anglophones of centuries past appeared to know the difference between ITS and IT'S.....
 
Most (80%ish) Anglophones of centuries past were illiterate until the mid-19th century, so it's hard to gauge if they knew the difference, and it's hard to give all of them credit for their use of the language based on such a few who were writing for posterity to read.

Maybe the elites, who learned to read and had books, did, but the general public still had town criers and oral traditions. The internet is like everyone's become a town crier and an oral tradition. Don't judge the few and extrapolate it to the entirety. :D
 
But wait, there's more: Remember the midseason series originally announced as "Good Christian Belles"?

It's also joining ABC's lineup, but under the acronym "GCB"... I don't think that's by accident... ::)
 
Have you seen the program content on broadcast TV these days? I saw an episode of Cougartown a couple years ago in which Courtney Cox is giving her date a b___ job when her son walks in the room. Yes - the BJ was naturally off camera, but still...

And this is the network owned by Disney! Walt was probably spinning in his grave...uh...suspended animation.

If what I see is any indication, the PTC is fighting a losing battle. Having the word "bitch" in the title of the show is the least of their problems.
 
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