Hey Sherry Roth, Thought youd enjoy! On language… I stopped by the office of my colleague, Roy Peter Clark, Monday morning to talk about these articles and the roll of “bad” words. Clark stood up, walked to a tall book shelf and pulled down his copy of Sheidlower’s “The F-Word.” In many ways, some words that used to offend don’t do so any more, he told me, and new ones rise to take their place. Clark remembered poking fun at the St. Petersburg Times in 1979 when it chose not to fully quote President Jimmy Carter, who said if Sen. Edward Kennedy ran for president “I’ll whip his ass.” “We filled in the blanks,” Clark said. “I’ll whip his arm. I’ll whip his ape. I’ll whip his asp.” js
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:00:36 +0000
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