Bad Laguage In The Daliy Press

[jobjockey]

Not content with flooding the television with bad 

language, it now seems to have arrived in my morning

paper, is there any need, I was at sea for 11 years so

I'm no prude but is this what the national press is

coming to?

[Ellipsis]

So I take it that your member name is not a play on a common insult ...

[douglas9401]

Were there no ports available?

[Old_Geezer]

One person's "bad language" is another's free speech, which the prudish is trying to stop.

 

What, precisely, has upset you ?

[jno]

golly, I don't know. But maybe editors have thought about it and concluded that language usage has changed since you (and I) worked... darn it!

[Canary42]

You can always take refuge in Answerbank where it's just not *** allowed.

[THECORBYLOON]

Has it taken until now to read this morning's paper?

[Canary42]

Given the topic, the two typos in your title are appropriately ironic 😄😄😄😄

[jno]

It might be tomorrow's paper, TCL, the first editions may be hitting the streets (of London, anyway) about now.

[jobjockey]

I am surprised at the replies to my comment

I dont think that you are very witty with your

replies, and ths crass remark being at sea, because

there were no ports is so puerile,

[Canary42]

The sense-of-humour-bypass worked then.

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you have a link to the offending articles?

[jobjockey]

Canary 43 Ha Ha

[jourdain2]

I also get fed-up (annoyed? not sure) with the lapse in standards in broadcast media (written and spoken). There needs to be a high standard, surely, to which everyone should at least attempt to adhere?  Otherwise language itself ceases to be that which it should be - a universal communication device.

Today I was with my daughter, grandson, husband, ex-husband and his wife, because daughter was moving house & we were all helping.  Grandson (14) was dropping swear words everywhere - no-one else was.  You'd think he would have noticed.  He didn't.

Eventually I challenged a 'Damn'  (see if that gets past the censors) - and he argued that it wasn't a swear word.  He was eventually convinced that it was.  

It impoverishes language and expression and someone has to set a standard - it used to be the Beeb.

 

Well hi didn't

[jourdain2]

^^^^  What happened there?     'Well, it isn't anymore."

[jno]

the Beeb can set all the standards it likes - its website is quite cautious, though I can't speak about its late-night TV programmes - but if nobody else follows them, then it's not the BBC's fault.

[douglas9401]

I blame rappers meself.

[ToraToraTora]

is there a link to what the OP is on about?