{"id":166,"date":"2005-08-18T21:32:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/bombs_away\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T21:32:45","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T21:32:45","slug":"bombs_away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/language\/bombs_away\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombs Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fbomb\"<\/a>My latest contribution to Language Log: an email to Arnold Zwicky instigating the post "No fuckin’ winking at the Times."<\/a><\/p>\n

Basically I found it absurd that the prudish Gray Lady had written an entire article<\/a> about the word fuck without even going so far as to call it "the f-bomb." Instead, the author called it "a word-bomb." He explains:<\/p>\n

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…very rarely does the paper print those obvious, winking, letter-word stand-ins. As The Times’s two-page stylebook entry on obscenity says, "An article should not seem to be saying, ‘Look, I want to use this word but they won’t let me.’ "<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Looks like he failed on that one.<\/p>\n

[The funniest part of the article is the correction:  <\/p>\n

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An article last Sunday about shifting standards for the use of profanity misspelled the surname of the bartender in the television series "The Simpsons." He is Moe Szyslak, not Syzlak."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reminds me of a correction I cut out of the Brown Daily Herald once. It said that they had misspelled the name of Xena the Warrior Princess as Zena, tacking on, solemnly: "We regret the error."]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My latest contribution to Language Log: an email to Arnold Zwicky instigating the post "No fuckin’ winking at the Times." Basically I found it absurd that the prudish Gray Lady had written an entire article about the word fuck without even going so far as to call it "the f-bomb." Instead, the author called it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}