The Guardian's ombudsman examines the paper's use of profanity: "'Fuck', for instance, has made an appearance 470 times this year already, and the more taboo C-word has cropped up in 61 items. These profanities are more frequent in the culture and music sections than elsewhere and they nearly always appear, in speech marks, when someone else's words are reported. The Guardian's editorial code says: 'There is almost never a case in which we need to use a swearword outside direct quotes.' Complaints about inappropriate language usually concern breaches of this part of the code in columns written by contributors, but the front-page C-word story, on 25 July, which reported Jeremy Clarkson's not-for-broadcast remarks about the prime minister to a Top Gear studio audience, was in line with editorial policy." The C-word, for the record, is "cunt."
Monday, August 17, 2009
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"speech marks"
We always called the C-word the "K-word" because the word was so bad (when we were young foolish potty-mouthed prudes).
Profane is NOT the right word, My Apple dictionary sayes:
profane |prəˈfÄÂn; prÃ…Â-|
adjective
1 relating or devoted to that which is not sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious : a talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane.
• (of a person) not initiated into religious rites or any esoteric knowledge : he was an agnostic, a profane man.
2 (of a person or their behavior) not respectful of orthodox religious practice; irreverent : desecration of the temple by profane adolescents.
• (of language) blasphemous or obscene.
verb [ trans. ]
treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect : it was a serious matter to profane a tomb.
You should be using TABOO. or Obcsene.
taboo |təˈboÃ…Â; ta-| (also tabu)
noun ( pl. -boos also -bus |təˈboÃ…Âz|)
a social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
adjective
prohibited or restricted by social custom : sex was a taboo subject.
• designated as sacred and prohibited : the burial ground was seen as a taboo place.
verb ( -boos, -booed |-ˈboÃ…Âd|or -bus, -bued) [ trans. ]
place under such prohibition : traditional societies taboo female handling of food during this period.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Tongan tabu ‘set apart, forbidden’ ; introduced into English by Captain Cook.
As Archbishop of the Church of Latter Day Vaginas, I approve of the descriptive adjective "profane."
And now to read a passage from the Sermon on the Mound....
The problem with Jeremy Clarkson's remarks was that he called Gordon Brown "one-eyed" and "Scottish." Nobody gave a shit about the "cunt" part.